Research in Computer and Robot Vision is directed toward researchers and graduate students in the field of computer vision. A broad spectrum of recent research is presented including sensing and navigation for mobile robots, the extraction of lines, curves, surfaces, and skeletons from intensity images and range images, human motion, and feature extraction. Three applied research projects are presented on the topics of handwriting recognition, automatic understanding of technical drawings, and the collection and interpretation of 3-D images for use in dentistry. These papers dramatically illustrate the breadth of implications of the use of computer vision in industrial, social, and even medical arenas.Contents:Mobile Robots: Sensing and NavigationExtracting Lines, Curves, Surfaces, and SkeletonsGenerating and Interpreting Human MotionUsing Image and Scene ModelsApplications and ToolsReadership: Researchers and graduate students in the field of computer vision.Key Features:First book on the successful repair of a spinal cord injury in humansCovers contemporary techniques for assessments and detailed descriptions of surgery useful for trainees as well as for practising neurologists and surgeonsIncludes a detailed description of experimental and neuroscience workshop to a new surgical strategy for intraspinal repair of interest for basic and clinical scientists