Computer vision

Quad Rotorcraft Control develops original control methods for the navigation and hovering flight of an autonomous mini-quad-rotor robotic helicopter.

Matrix transforms are ubiquitous within the world of computer graphics, where they have become an invaluable tool in a programmer's toolkit for solving everything from 2D image scaling to 3D rotation about an arbitrary axis.

Change detection using remotely sensed images has many applications, such as urban monitoring, land-cover change analysis, and disaster management.

This work proposes a complete sensor-independent visual system that provides robust target motion detection.

This indispensable text introduces the foundations of three-dimensional computer vision and describes recent contributions to the field.

3D Imaging, Analysis and Applications brings together core topics, both in terms of well-established fundamental techniques and the most promising recent techniques in the exciting field of 3D imaging and analysis.

This Guide to OCR for Arabic Scripts is the first book of its kind, specifically devoted to this emerging field.

RenderMan has long been associated with top-end film production and is an essential tool for creating many of the effects and images in recent animated films (such as Final Fantasy, Monsters, Inc.

Automatie object recognition is a multidisciplinary research area using con- cepts and tools from mathematics, computing, optics, psychology, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and various other disciplines.

Principles of Visual Information Retrieval introduces the basic concepts and techniques in VIR and develops a foundation that can be used for further research and study.

The manipulation of pictures and video in digital form has been an established research activity for more than twenty years.

Recent developments in computer visualisation mean that it is now possible to combine computer-generated image sequences with real video, in real time, for broadcast quality production.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of medical image analysis.

This textbook presents the fundamental concepts and methods for understanding and working with images and video in an unique, easy-to-read style which ensures the material is accessible to a wide audience.

Shape detection techniques are an important aspect of computer vision and are used to transform raw image data into the symbolic representations needed for object recognition and location.

Lewis Carroll once wrote a story about a king who wanted a very accurate map of his kingdom.

The field of computer graphics combines display hardware, software, and interactive techniques in order to display and interact with data generated by applications.

This book presents a thorough and detailed guide to image registration, outlining the principles and reviewing state-of-the-art tools and methods.

Mathematical Methods for Signal and Image Analysis and Representation presents the mathematical methodology for generic image analysis tasks.

This important text/reference presents state-of-the-art research on intelligent vehicles, covering not only topics of object/obstacle detection and recognition, but also aspects of vehicle motion control.

This book examines distributed video coding (DVC) and multiple description coding (MDC), two novel techniques designed to address the problems of conventional image and video compression coding.

This work presents a full generic approach to the detection and recognition of traffic signs.

Fractional processes are widely found in science, technology and engineering systems.

Image compression is concerned with minimization of the number of information carrying units used to represent an image.

Information technology is the enabling foundation for all of human activity at the beginning of the 21st century, and advances in this area are crucial to all of us.

As computer systems evolve, the volume of data to be processed increases significantly, either as a consequence of the expanding amount of available information, or due to the possibility of performing highly complex operations that were not feasible in the past.

This volume contains the texts of papers presented at the Second Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, held at Dublin City University in September 1989.

This book contains the 61 papers that were accepted for presenta- tion at the 1992 British Machine Vision Conference.

This volume contains the papers from the first British Neural Network Society meeting held at Queen Elizabeth Hall, King's College, London on 18--20 April 1990.

Owing to the rapid emergence and growth of techniques in the engineering application of fractals, it has become necessary to gather the most recent advances on a regular basis.

International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR 98) at Plymouth represents an important meeting for advanced research in pattern recognition.

Line drawing interpretation is a challenging area with enormous practical potential.

Biometric identity verification (BIV) offers a radical alternative to passports, PIN numbers, ID cards and driving licences.

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This is the third Workshop on Self-Organising Maps (WSOM) and its related techniques.

This book contains papers presented at the Noblesse Workshop on Non-linear model based image analysis held in Glasgow, 1-3 July 1998.

Active Contours deals with the analysis of moving images - a topic of growing importance within the computer graphics industry.

It is probably an overstatement to say that the discipline of telecommunication systems is becoming an application of digital signal processing (DSP).

Knowledge-based (or expert systems) and image processing have been applied to many domains but, although both fields frequently address common application areas, they are rarely applied together.

The value of multi-disciplinary research and the exchange of ideas and methods across traditional discipline boundaries are well recognised.

The application of intelligent imaging techniques to industrial vision problems is an evolving aspect of current machine vision research.

After a slow and somewhat tentative beginning, machine vision systems are now finding widespread use in industry.

Machine vision systems offer great potential in a large number of areas of manufacturing industry and are used principally for Automated Visual Inspection and Robot Vision.

This book focuseson the use of computer visionand graphics in architecture.

The very word "e;digital"e; has acquired a status that far exceeds its humble dictionary definition.

"e;Advances in computer technology and developments such as the Internet provide a constant momentum to design new techniques and algorithms to support computer graphics.

One of the challenges facing professionals working in computer animation is keeping abreast of the latest developments and future trends - some of which are determined by industry where the state-of-the-art is continuously being re-defined by the latest computer-generated film special effects, while others arise from research projects whose results are quickly taken on board by programmers and animators working in industry.

Explorations in Art and Technology is about the creative process in action through the eyes of practitioners and researchers.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 12th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets WIRN VIETRI-Ol, jointly organized by the International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies "e;Eduardo R.

Intelligent Machine Vision: Techniques, Implementations & Applications brings together the central issues involved in this exciting and topical subject.