Computer vision

This edited volume addresses a subject which has been discussed inten- sively in the computer vision community for several years.

One of the most natural representations for modelling spatial objects in computers is discrete representations in the form of a 2D square raster and a 3D cubic grid, since these are naturally obtained by segmenting sensor images.

Motion-based recognition deals with the recognition of an object and/or its motion, based on motion in a series of images.

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This book is addressed to designers of photodetectors and photodetecting systems, designers of focal plane arrays, charge-coupled devices, specialists in IR technologies, designers of optoelectronic detecting, guiding and tracking systems, systems for IR direction finders, lidars, lightwave communication systems, IR imagers.

Intelligent Systems involve a large class of systems which posses human-like capabilities such as learning, observation, perception, interpretation, reasoning under uncertainty, planning in known and unknown environments, decision making, and control action.

Who has not noticed, on one o~casion or another, those intriguing geometric patterns which appear at the intersection Of repetitive structures such as two far picket fences on a hill, the railings on both sides of a bridge, superposed layers of fabric, or folds of a nylon curtain?

A collection of original contributions by researchers who work at the forefront of a new field, lying at the intersection of computer vision and computer graphics.

Image analysis is one of the most challenging areas in today's computer sci- ence, and image technologies are used in a host of applications.

During the past decade there has been a renewed interest in active sonar systems at both low and medium frequencies.

Acoustic Signal Processing for Ocean Explortion has two major goals: (i) to present signal processing algorithms that take into account the models of acoustic propagation in the ocean and; (ii) to give a perspective of the broad set of techniques, problems, and applications arising in ocean exploration.

Mathematical morphology (MM) is a theory for the analysis of spatial structures.

Color perception plays an important role in object recognition and scene understanding both for humans and intelligent vision systems.

This book offers unique and valuable contributions to the field.

Since the early 20th century, medical imaging has been dominated by monochrome imaging modalities such as x-ray, computed tomography, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging.

In this book, the design of two new planar patterns for camera calibration of intrinsic parameters is addressed and a line-based method for distortion correction is suggested.

This book collects the state-of-art and new trends in image analysis and biomechanics.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-centric Computing and Embedded and Multimedia Computing (HumanCom & EMC 2011) will cover topics of HumanCom and EMC, the current hot topics satisfying the world-wide ever-changing needs.

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) were introduced by Ian Goodfellow and his co-authors including Yoshua Bengio in 2014, and were to referred by Yann Lecun (Facebook's AI research director) as "e;the most interesting idea in the last 10 years in ML.

This book provides a state-of-the art overview of satellite archaeology and it is an invaluable volume for archaeologists, scientists, and managers interested in using satellite Earth Observation (EO) to improve the traditional approach for archaeological investigation, protection and management of Cultural Heritage.

One of the key milestones of radar remote sensing for civil applications was the launch of the European Remote Sensing Satellite 1 (ERS 1) in 1991.

Lunar domes are structures of volcanic origin which are usually difficult to observe due to their low heights.

The book focuses on an image processing technique known as binarization.

The book presents papers delivered by researchers, industrial experts and academicians at the Conference on Emerging Trends in Computing and Communication (ETCC 2014).

The book presents high quality research papers presented by experts in the International Conference on Internet Computing and Information Communications 2012, organized by ICICIC Global organizing committee (on behalf of The CARD Atlanta, Georgia, CREATE Conferences Inc).

ICMCCA 2012 is the first International Conference on Multimedia Processing, Communication and Computing Applications and the theme of the Conference is chosen as 'Multimedia Processing and its Applications'.

Selected topics and papers from the first international workshop on computer animation, held in Geneva in 1989, provide a comprehensive overview of the problems encountered in the rising field of computer animation.

Computer Science Workbench is a monograph series which will provide you with an in-depth working knowledge of current developments in computer technology.

Computer Science Workbench is a monograph series which will provide you with an in-depth working knowledge of current developments in computer technology.

Computer Science Workbench is a monograph series which will provide you with an in-depth working knowledge of current developments in computer technology.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 7th International Confer- ence of the Computer Graphics Society, CG International '89, held at the University of Leeds, UK, June 27-30, 1989.

Image Synthesis: Theory and Practice is the first book completely dedicated to the numerous techniques of image synthesis.

Recent developments in computer graphics have largely involved the following: Integration of computer graphics and image analysis through computer data structure; integration of CAD/CAM as computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) through the design and simulation of manufacturing processes using computer graphics; progress in basic research on the modeling of complex and mathematical graphic objects, such as computational geometry, graphic data bases, hierarchical windows, and texture; use of computer graphics as an improved human interface to present information visually and multidimensionally; and advancement of industrial technology and computer art based on developments in the areas listed above.

Research, development, and applications in computer graphics have dramatically expanded in recent years.

Markov random field (MRF) theory provides a basis for modeling contextual constraints in visual processing and interpretation.

Markov random field (MRF) modeling provides a basis for the characterization of contextual constraints on visual interpretation and enables us to develop optimal vision algorithms systematically based on sound principles.

This book contains invited papers and a selection of research papers submitted to Computer Animation '91, the third international work- shop on Computer Animation, which was held in Geneva on May 22-24.

In this book, the latest achievements of the computation time analysis theory and practical applications of intelligent algorithms are set out.

This book provides an extensive examination of state-of-the-art methods in multimodal retrieval, generation, and the pioneering field of retrieval-augmented generation.

Dieses Buch befasst sich mit den allgemeinen Verfahren und Methoden der Datenkompression und geht speziell auf deren Einsatz in Systemen zur Bilddatenkompression ein.

Any task that involves decision-making can benefit from soft computing techniques which allow premature decisions to be deferred.

This edited volume comprises invited chapters that cover five areas of the current and the future development of intelligent systems and information sciences.

Since time immemorial, vision in general and images in particular have played an important and essential role in human life.

Many robotics researchers consider high-level vision algorithms (computational) too expensive for use in robot guidance.