Vision with Direction
Subtitle: A Systematic Introduction to Image Processing and Computer Vision
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: March 16, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9783540273226
Subjects: Applied optics; Computers; Computers - Other Applications; Computer Books: General; Computer Graphics - General; Computer Vision; Engineering - Electrical & Electronic; Computers / Computer Graphics / General; Fourier transform; Hilbert spaces; Schwartz inequality; color vision; directional vision; discrete geometry; feature measurement; human vision; image analysis; Image processing
Description: Image analysis is a computational feat which humans show excellence in, in comp- ison with computers. Yet the list of applications that rely on automatic processing of images has been growing at a fast pace. Biometric authentication by face, ?ngerprint, and iris, online character recognition in cell phones as well as drug design tools are but a few of its benefactors appearing on the headlines. This is, of course, facilitated by the valuable output of the resarch community in the past 30 years. The pattern recognition and computer vision communities that study image analysis have large conferences, which regularly draw 1000 parti- pants. In a way this is not surprising, because much of the human-speci?c activities critically rely on intelligent use of vision. If routine parts of these activities can be automated, much is to be gained in comfort and sustainable development. The - search ?eld could equally be called visualintelligence because it concerns nearly all activities of awake humans. Humans use or rely on pictures or pictorial languages to represent, analyze, and develop abstract metaphors related to nearly every aspect of thinking and behaving, be it science, mathematics, philosopy, religion, music, or emotions. The present volume is an introductory textbook on signal analysis of visual c- putation for senior-level undergraduates or for graduate students in science and - gineering. My modest goal has been to present the frequently used techniques to analyze images in a common framework–directional image processing.