Foundations of Computer Vision: Computational Geometry, Visual Image Structures and Object Shape Detection

by James F. Peters

Overview

This book introduces the fundamentals of computer vision (CV), with a focus on extracting useful information from digital images and videos. Including a wealth of methods used in detecting and classifying image objects and their shapes, it is the first book to apply a trio of tools (computational geometry, topology and algorithms) in solving CV problems, shape tracking in image object recognition and detecting the repetition of shapes in single images and video frames. Computational geometry provides a visualization of topological structures such as neighborhoods of points embedded in images, while image topology supplies us with structures useful in the analysis and classification of image regions. Algorithms provide a practical, step-by-step means of viewing image structures.

The implementations of CV methods in Matlab and Mathematica, classification of chapter problems with the symbols (easily solved) and (challenging) and its extensive glossary of key words, examples and connections with the fabric of CV make the book an invaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and first year graduate students in Engineering, Computer Science or Applied Mathematics.

It offers insights into the design of CV experiments, inclusion of image processing methods in CV projects, as well as the reconstruction and interpretation of recorded natural scenes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319849126
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	07/19/2018
Series:	Intelligent Systems Reference Library , #124
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Pages:	431
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Basics Leading to Machine Vision.- Working with Pixels.- Visualising Pixel Intensity Distributions.- Linear Filtering.- Edges, Lines, Corners, Gaussian kernel and Voronoï Meshes.- Delaunay Mesh Segmentation.- Video Processing. An Introduction to Real-Time and Offline Video Analysis.- Lowe Keypoints, Maximal Nucleus Clusters, Contours and Shapes.- Postscript. Where Do Shapes fit into the Computer Vision Landscape?.