[pastrami_panda]

I'm not familiar with Ulf's work, but it sounds very interesting. I tried finding his work on stochastic models for shape generation but didn't find it. Mind pointing me in the right direction?

[mturmon]

I like the approachable monograph —

https://www.springer.com/us/book/9780387973869

But there is also the magisterial —

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/pattern-theory-97801...

There is a lot of published work from this school, including the seminal Geman and Geman paper from 1984, one of the most cited works in engineering.