Joseph Segman, Jacob Rubinstein and Yehoshua Y. Zeevi,
The Canonical Coordinates Method for Pattern Deformation:
Theoretical and Computational Considerations,
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,
14, 12, pp. 1171-1183, December 1992.A method for the analysis of deformed patterns is presented and analyzed. The image is transformed into a new set of coordinates in which the deformation has a particular simple form. A number of deformations are considered. The practical implementation of the method is discussed. We also consider similar aspects of biological vision.