Vision with Direction A Systematic Introduction to Image Processing and Computer Vision /

• Main Author: Bigun, Josef (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer graphics.; Image processing.; Pattern recognition.; Mathematics.; Visualization.; Computer Science.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.; Pattern Recognition.; Computer Graphics.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.

Image analysis is a computational feat which humans show excellence in, in comp- ison with computers. Yet the list of applications that rely on automatic processing of images has been growing at a fast pace. Biometric authentication by face, ?ngerprint, and iris, online character recognition in cell...

Table of Contents:

• Human and Computer Vision
• Neuronal Pathways of Vision
• Color
• Linear Tools of Vision
• Discrete Images and Hilbert Spaces
• Continuous Functions and Hilbert Spaces
• Finite Extension or Periodic Functions—Fourier Coefficients
• Fourier Transform—Infinite Extension Functions
• Properties of the Fourier Transform
• Reconstruction and Approximation
• Scales and Frequency Channels
• Vision of Single Direction
• Direction in 2D
• Direction in Curvilinear Coordinates
• Direction in ND, Motion as Direction
• World Geometry by Direction in N Dimensions
• Vision in Multiple Directions
• Group Direction and N-Folded Symmetry
• Grouping, Segmentation, and Region Description
• Reducing the Dimension of Features
• Grouping and Unsupervised Region Segregation
• Region and Boundary Descriptors
• Concluding Remarks.