Generalized Procrustes analysis
The Generalized Procrustes Analysis is a procedure applying the well-known Procrustes analysis method to align a population of shapes instead of only two shape instances. This is one of the methods achieving this goal, which a mandatory pre-requisite for any morphometric analysis of a population.
In particular, this is mandatory for building the famous Point Distribution Model from a training set of annotated shape instances.
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