Image processing

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Management and Big Data, SIMBig 2021, held as a virtual event in December 2021.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2022, held as part of Evo* 2022, in April 2022, co-located with the Evo* 2022 events, EvoCOP, EvoApplications, and EuroGP.

Physics-based animation is commonplace in animated feature films and even special effects for live-action movies.

The wide diffusion of 3D printing technologies continuously calls for effective solutions for designing and fabricating objects of increasing complexity.

This book provides beginners in computer graphics and related fields a guide to the concepts, models, and technologies for realistic rendering of material appearance.

In image processing and computer vision applications such as medical or scientific image data analysis, as well as in industrial scenarios, images are used as input measurement data.

In geometry processing and shape analysis, several applications have been addressed through the properties of the Laplacian spectral kernels and distances, such as commute time, biharmonic, diffusion, and wave distances.

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

Heritage sites across the world have witnessed a number of natural calamities, sabotage and damage from visitors, resulting in their present ruined condition.

This book is written for students, CAD system users and software developers who are interested in geometric continuity-a notion needed in everyday practice of Computer-Aided Design and also a hot subject of research.

New data acquisition techniques are emerging and are providing fast and efficient means for multidimensional spatial data collection.

Path planning and navigation are indispensable components for controlling autonomous agents in interactive virtual worlds.

As we increase our reliance on computer-generated information, often using it as part of our decision-making process, we must devise tools to assess the correctness of that information.

This volume presents novel computational models for representing digital humans and their interactions with other virtual characters and meaningful environments.

The three-volume set LNCS 13302, 13303 and 13304 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Human Computer Interaction thematic area of the 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2022, which took place virtually in June-July 2022.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Language and Technology Conference: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC 2019, held in Poznan, Poland, in May 2019.

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2022, held as part of the 24th International Conference, HCI International 2022, held as a virtual event, in June-July 2022.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, RECOMB 2022, held in San Diego, CA, USA in May 2022.

This book serves as a practical guide to simulation of 3D deformable solids using the Finite Element Method (FEM).

What can Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) learn from art?

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics, MLSA 2021, held as virtual event in September 2021.

Plants and trees are among the most complex natural objects.

For the last ten years, face biometric research has been intensively studied by the computer vision community.

Human visual perception is limited to the visual-optical spectrum.

Person re-identification is the problem of associating observations of targets in different non-overlapping cameras.

Visual pattern analysis is a fundamental tool in mining data for knowledge.

Under the title "e;Probabilistic and Biologically Inspired Feature Representations,"e; this text collects a substantial amount of work on the topic of channel representations.

Computer vision has become increasingly important and effective in recent years due to its wide-ranging applications in areas as diverse as smart surveillance and monitoring, health and medicine, sports and recreation, robotics, drones, and self-driving cars.

Covariance matrices play important roles in many areas of mathematics, statistics, and machine learning, as well as their applications.

Outlier-contaminated data is a fact of life in computer vision.

A common feature of many approaches to modeling sensory statistics is an emphasis on capturing the "e;average.

Because circular objects are projected to ellipses in images, ellipse fitting is a first step for 3-D analysis of circular objects in computer vision applications.

Modeling data from visual and linguistic modalities together creates opportunities for better understanding of both, and supports many useful applications.

Background subtraction is a widely used concept for detection of moving objects in videos.

Being able to recover the shape of 3D deformable surfaces from a single video stream would make it possible to field reconstruction systems that run on widely available hardware without requiring specialized devices.

Statistical analysis of shapes of 3D objects is an important problem with a wide range of applications.

In the human quest for scientific knowledge, empirical evidence is collected by visual perception.

In its early years, the field of computer vision was largely motivated by researchers seeking computational models of biological vision and solutions to practical problems in manufacturing, defense, and medicine.

As networks of video cameras are installed in many applications like security and surveillance, environmental monitoring, disaster response, and assisted living facilities, among others, image understanding in camera networks is becoming an important area of research and technology development.

Face detection, because of its vast array of applications, is one of the most active research areas in computer vision.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to 3D Light-Field camera based imaging, exploring the working principles, developments and its applications in fluid mechanics and aerodynamics measurements.

The age of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is upon us, and in ushering new ways to connect and travel, this wave of technology has been compared to GPS and cloud computing.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction, IHCI 2021, which took place in Kent, OH, USA, in December 2021.

This book constitutes the Second International Challenge on Kidney and Kidney Tumor Segmentation, KiTS 2021, which was held in conjunction with the 24th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2021.

This book constitutes the Second 3D Head and Neck Tumor Segmentation in PET/CT Challenge, HECKTOR 2021, which was held in conjunction with the 24th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2021.

This book provides an interdisciplinary look at emerging trends in signal processing and biomedicine found at the intersection of healthcare, engineering, and computer science.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Intelligent Computing Systems, ISICS 2022, held in Santiago, Chile, in March 2022.

This volume constitutes selected papers presented at the 28th International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing, IWSSIP 2021, held in Bratislava, Slovakia, in June 2021.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to all major topics in digital signal processing (DSP).

This book constitutes three challenges that were held in conjunction with the 24th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2021, which was planned to take place in Strasbourg, France but changed to an online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic.