%0 Journal Article %A Azencott, R. %A Glowinski, R. %A Ramos del Olmo, Ángel Manuel %T A controllability approach to shape identification %D 2008 %@ 0893-9659 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50287 %X The main goal of this work is to discuss a controllability approach to the image matching/shape identification problem, an important issue in many applications, medical ones in particular. The matching problem is formulated as an approximate controllability problem involving a cost functional whose gradient is computed using an adjoint equation based methodology. The time discrete version of the image matching problem is also discussed in this work. %~