Part A - Introduction and Acquisition Systems: 1. Introduction.- 2. Stereo Matching and Reconstruction of a Depth Map.- Part A - Summary.- Part B - Database Creation and Modeling for 3D Object Recognition: 3. 3-D Object Creation for Recognition.- 4. Object Representation and Feature Matching.- Part B - Summary.- Part C - Vision Systems - Case Studies: 5. Optical Character Recognition.- 6. Recognition by Parts and Part Segmentation Techniques.- 7. 3D Object Recognition Systems.- Part C - Summary: A. Vector and Matrix Analysis.- B. Principal Component Analysis.- C. Optimisation Fundamentals.- D. Differential Geometry - Basic Principles.- E. Spline Theory.- F. Detailed Derivation of Registration Equations.- References.- Index.