The AIM@SHAPE partners’ activities can be summarized as follows:

• Image processing and understanding
• Shape Aquisition
• digitalisation,
• scanning,
• reconstruction
  
• Shape analysis and reasoning
• Geometric reasoning
• Semantic reasoning
• Shape matching
  
• Shape representation (shape compression
  
• Geometric modeling
  
• Knowledge technologies
• Ontologies
• Semantic search
  
  

This expertise is applicable at least in the following application areas:

• Reverse Engineering (digitisation of products)
  
• Styling and Design (shape modelling)
  
• Engineering (geometric reasoning and shape representation schemes)
  
• Geographical Information Systems
  
• Virtual Humans