Computer vision

Semantic Video Object Segmentation for Content-Based Multimedia Applications provides a thorough review of state-of-the-art techniques as well as describing several novel ideas and algorithms for semantic object extraction from image sequences.

Computer systems that analyze images are critical to a wide variety of applications such as visual inspections systems for various manufacturing processes, remote sensing of the environment from space-borne imaging platforms, and automatic diagnosis from X-rays and other medical imaging sources.

Multi-Frame Motion-Compensated Prediction for Video Transmission presents a comprehensive description of a new technique in video coding and transmission.

Traditionally, scientific fields have defined boundaries, and scientists work on research problems within those boundaries.

Fourier Vision provides a new treatment of figure-ground segmentation in scenes comprising transparent, translucent, or opaque objects.

This book summarizes the results of our modeling-from-reality (MFR) project which took place over the last decade or so.

JPEG2000: Image Compression Fundamentals, Standards and Practice is an essential reference for engineers and researchers in the fields of communication, image processing, signal processing, information theory, and multimedia.

Data visualization is currently a very active and vital area of research, teaching and development.

Traditionally, scientific fields have defined boundaries, and scientists work on research problems within those boundaries.

Analyzing Video Sequences of Multiple Humans: Tracking, Posture Estimation and Behavior Recognition describes some computer vision-based methods that analyze video sequences of humans.

This book deals with digital watermarking, which is defined by the authors of this book as the art of hiding auxiliary information in digital data in a secure, robust and imperceptible fashion.

Monitoring of public and private sites has increasingly become a very sensitive issue resulting in a patchwork of privacy laws varying from country to country -though all aimed at protecting the privacy of the citizen.

Our understanding of nature is often through nonuniform observations in space or time.

Traditionally, scientific fields have defined boundaries, and scientists work on research problems within those boundaries.

Exploration of Visual Data presents latest research efforts in the area of content-based exploration of image and video data.

Image Technology Design: A Perceptual Approach is an essential reference for both academic and professional researchers in the fields of image technology, image processing and coding, image display, and image quality.

Remote Sensing of Forest Environments: Concepts and Case Studies is an edited volume intended to provide readers with a state-of-the-art synopsis of the current methods and applied applications employed in remote sensing the world's forests.

Multimedia Signals and Systems is primarily a technical introductory level multimedia textbook, including problems, examples, and MATLAB(R) codes.

This book examines computer architecture, computability theory, and the history of computers from the perspective of minimalist computing - a framework in which the instruction set consists of a single instruction.

Monitoring of public and private sites is increasingly becoming a very important and critical issue, especially after the recent flurry of terrorist attacks including the one on the Word Trade Center in September 2001.

There are currently thousands of amateur astronomers around the world engaged in astrophotography at a sophisticated level.

This book equips readers to understand a complex range of healthcare products that are used to diagnose, monitor, and treat diseases or medical conditions affecting humans.

Hyperspectral Image Fusion is the first text dedicated to the fusion techniques for such a huge volume of data consisting of a very large number of images.

Compressed sensing or compressive sensing is a new concept in signal processing where one measures a small number of non-adaptive linear combinations of the signal.

Stroke is one of the leading causes of death in the world, resulting mostly from the sudden ruptures of atherosclerosis carotid plaques.

Abstraction is a fundamental mechanism underlying both human and artificial perception, representation of knowledge, reasoning and learning.

3D Surface Reconstruction: Multi-Scale Hierarchical Approaches presents methods to model 3D objects in an incremental way so as to capture more finer details at each step.

Biometrics and Kansei Engineering is the first book to bring together the principles and applications of each discipline.

Semantic Analysis and Understanding of Human Behaviour in Video Streaming investigates the semantic analysis of the human behaviour captured by video streaming, and introduces both theoretical and technological points of view.

Soft Computing Approach to Pattern Classification and Object Recognition establishes an innovative, unified approach to supervised pattern classification and model-based occluded object recognition.

Scientific Astrophotography is intended for those amateur astronomers who are looking for new challenges, once they have mastered visual observing and the basic imaging of various astronomical objects.

Computer processing and image analysis technologies have improved substantially over the course of the past decade.

This book presents various video processing methodologies that are useful for distance education.

Time-of-Flight Cameras and Microsoft Kinect(TM) closely examines the technology and general characteristics of time-of-flight range cameras, and outlines the best methods for maximizing the data captured by these devices.

Analysis, assessment, and data management are core tools required for operation research analysts.

The authors survey a recent technique in computer vision called Interactive Co-segmentation, which is the task of simultaneously extracting common foreground objects from multiple related images.

Creating New Medical Ontologies for Image Annotation focuses on the problem of the medical images automatic annotation process, which is solved in an original manner by the authors.

Writing Virtual Environments for Software Visualization book describes the software for a networked, 3D multi-user virtual environment that allows users to create and share remotely visualizations of program behavior.

Photographic imagery has come a long way from the pinhole cameras of the nineteenth century.

The "e;digital revolution"e; of the last two decades has pervaded innumerable aspects of our daily lives and changed our planet irreversibly.

Kernel Learning Algorithms for Face Recognition covers the framework of kernel based face recognition.

A central issue in computer vision is the problem of signal to symbol transformation.

Fundamentals algorithms for SIMD and MIMD hypercubes are developed.

Recursive Block Coding, a new image data compression technique that has its roots in noncausal models for 1d and 2d signals, is the subject of this book.

Since the early days of computers, machine learning and automatic programming have attracted researchers in computer science and related fields, particularly pattern recognition and automatic control theory.

* Modeling - creating objects in three-dimensional space.

The spreading of digital technology has resulted in a dramatic increase in the demand for data compression (DC) methods.

For the third time the Italian Group on Pattern Recogni tion has organized an International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (lAP) gathering together the most active groups working in this area in our country.

Mobile robots are playing an increasingly important role in our world.