Image processing

Rendering photorealistic images is a costly process which can take up to several days in the case of high quality images.

Linear complementarity problems (LCPs) have for many years been used in physics-based animation to model contact forces between rigid bodies in contact.

This synthesis lecture presents an intuitive introduction to the mathematics of motion and deformation in computer graphics.

This book is a guide for researchers and practitioners to the new frontiers of 3D shape analysis and the complex mathematical tools most methods rely on.

Information Theory (IT) tools, widely used in many scientific fields such as engineering, physics, genetics, neuroscience, and many others, are also useful transversal tools in image processing.

Eye tracking is a process that identifies a specific point in both space and time that is being looked at by the observer.

Information theory (IT) tools, widely used in scientific fields such as engineering, physics, genetics, neuroscience, and many others, are also emerging as useful transversal tools in computer graphics.

Quaternion multiplication can be used to rotate vectors in three-dimensions.

Tiling theory is an elegant branch of mathematics that has applications in several areas of computer science.

Irradiance caching is a ray tracing-based technique for computing global illumination on diffuse surfaces.

Many complex signals in computer graphics, such as point distributions and textures, cannot be efficiently synthesized and stored.

Providing an intuitive modeling system, which would enable us to communicate about any free-form shape we have in mind at least as quickly as with real-world tools, is one of the main challenges of digital shape design.

Interactive display and visualization of large geometric and textured models is becoming a fundamental capability.

High dynamic range imaging (HDRI) is an emerging field that has the potential to cause a great scientific and technological impact in the near future.

The human haptic system, among all senses, provides unique and bidirectional communication between humans and their physical environment.

In this lecture, we study Bezier and B-spline curves and surfaces, mathematical representations for free-form curves and surfaces that are common in CAD systems and are used to design aircraft and automobiles, as well as in modeling packages used by the computer animation industry.

As new displays and cameras offer enhanced color capabilities, there is a need to extend the precision of digital content.

This book presents techniques to render photo-realistic images by programming the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU).

There are many applications of computer animation and simulation where it is necessary to model virtual crowds of autonomous agents.

This book gives a broad overview of research on sound simulation driven by a variety of applications.

This book explores the visualization of three-dimensional non-Euclidean spaces using ray-tracing techniques in Graphics Processing Unit (GPU).

Solving problems with deep neural networks typically relies on massive amounts of labeled training data to achieve high performance.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2022, held as a hybrid event in Gurugram, India, in November 2022.

The 4-volume set LNCS 13534, 13535, 13536 and 13537 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2022, held in Shenzhen, China, in November 2022.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the workshops co-located with the 20th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2022, held in L'Aquila, Italy, in July 2022.

This book LNCS 13547 constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security, CSS 2022, held in Xi'an, China, in October 2022.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences, ICCABS 2021, held as a virtual event during December 16-18, 2021.

This LNCS 13407 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICICS 2022, held in Canterbury, UK,, in September 2022.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference, ICC3 2021, held in Coimbatore, India, during December 16-18, 2021.

This two volume proceedings, LNCS 13445 and 13446, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Extended Reality, XR Salento 2022, held in Lecce, Italy, during July 6-8, 2022.

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering, CCCE 2022, held in Rome, Italy, March 11-13, 2022.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Advances in Simplifying Medical UltraSound, ASMUS 2022, held on September 18, 2022, in conjunction with MICCAI 2022, the 25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 44th DAGM German Conference on Pattern Recognition, DAGM GCPR 2022, which was held during September 27 - 30, 2022.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality, EuroXR 2022, held in Stuttgart, Germany, in September 2022.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th Italian Conference on Geomatics for Green and Digital Transition, ASITA 2022, held in Genova, Italy, in June 2022.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Medical Reconstruction, MLMIR 2022, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2022, in September 2022, held in Singapore.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2022, which took place in Padua, Italy, in September 2022.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Fifth IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Science, ICCIDS 2022, held virtually, in March 2022.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Joint International Conference on Serious Games, JCSG 2022, held in Weimar, Germany, in September 2022.

This two-volume set of LNCS 13393 and LNCS 13394 constitutes - in conjunction with the volume LNAI 13395 - the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2022, held in Xi'an, China, in August 2022.

This book constitutes revised selected papers of the 10th International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2021, held in Tbilisi, Georgia, in December 2021.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Workshops held in conjunction with SAFECOMP 2022, which took place in Munich, Germany, in September 2022.

This two-volume set of LNCS 13393 and LNCS 13394 constitutes - in conjunction with the volume LNAI 13395 - the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2022, held in Xi'an, China, in August 2022.

The two-volume set LNCS 13373 and 13374 constitutes the papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2022, held in Lecce, Italy, in May 2022.

The two-volume set LNCS 13373 and 13374 constitutes the papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2022, held in Lecce, Italy, in May 2022.

This two-volume set (CCIS 1567-1568) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6h International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing, CVIP 2021, held in Rupnagar, India, in December 2021.

This two-volume set (CCIS 1567-1568) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6h International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing, CVIP 2021, held in Rupnagar, India, in December 2021.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration, WBIR 2020, which was supposed to be held in Munich, Germany, in July 2022.

This book constitutes selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2021, which was held online during February 4-6, 2021.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer, Communication, and Signal Processing, ICCSP 2022, held in Chennai, India, in February 2022.