Cantoni / Levialdi / Zavidovique 3C Vision

Cues, Context and Channels
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-12-385221-2
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten

The exponential explosion of images and videos concerns everybody's common life, since this media is now present everywhere and in all human activities. Scientists, artists and engineers, in any field, need to be aware of the basic mechanisms that allow them to understand how images are essentially information carriers. Images bear a strong evocative power because their perception quickly brings into mind a number of related pictorial contents of past experiences and even of abstract concepts like pleasure, attraction or aversion.This book analyzes the visual hints, thanks to which images are generally interpreted, processed and exploited both by humans and computer programs. - Comprehensive introductory text - Introduces the reader to the large world of imagery on which many human activities are based, from politics to entertainment, from technical reports to artistic creations - Provides a unified framework where both biological and artificial vision are discussed through visual cues, through the role of contexts and the available multi-channels to deliver information

Virginio Cantoni received the Laurea (cum laude) in Electronic Engineering in 1972 from Pavia University, Italy. He was a researcher of the Italian National Research Council from 1975 to 1983, and is presently a Full Professor of Computer Programming at Pavia University. From 1989 to 1995 Cantoni was Director of the Deparment of Computer Engineering, and from 1985 to 1990, he was the President of the Italian Group of the International Association for Pattern Recognition. He has been a Visiting Professor at Rutgers University, and has been Invited Professor at the Paris XI University. Levialdi is a Fellow of the IAPR and a senior member of IEEE.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cantoni, Virginio

Levialdi, Stefano

Zavidovique, Bertrand

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;3C Vision;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Contents;6
5;Foreword;10
6;Preface;12
7;Acknowledgments;16
8;Chapter 1 Natural and Artificial Vision;18
8.1;Natural Vision;20
8.2;Artificial Vision;21
8.3;Images as Information Carriers;25
8.4;Dissecting Images;26
8.5;Artificial Vision Strategies;27
8.6;Conclusions;33
9;Chapter 2 Visual Cues;36
9.1;The Human Headway;36
9.2;Image Computer-Processing Tracks;38
9.3;The Photometric Track;38
9.4;The Morphological Track;61
9.5;The Spatial Track;94
9.6;Decision Methods;116
9.7;Conclusion;122
10;Chapter 3 The Role of Contexts;132
10.1;Contexts According to Artists;132
10.2;Context in Natural and Artificial Vision;136
10.3;Direct Retrieval;145
10.4;Recognition-Based Retrieval;151
10.5;Search-Based Retrieval;163
10.6;Contexts and New Technologies;170
11;Chapter 4 Channeling the Information;194
11.1;Filling the Channels;194
11.2;Multimedia Exploitation;202
11.3;Icons and Metaphors;218
11.4;Structuring the Content;223
11.5;Social Interaction;228
11.6;Role Definition for Virtual Realism;241
11.7;Final Remarks and Conclusions;249