| Visual Motion of Curves and Surfaces Contributor(s): Cipolla, Roberto (Author), Giblin, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521118182 ISBN-13: 9780521118187 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $53.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: How to reconstruct 3D surfaces from images, using geometry, with applications to computer vision. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition - Computers | Computer Science - Mathematics | Geometry - Differential |
| Dewey: 516.352 |
| Physical Information: 0.42" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (0.71 lbs) 196 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The world is full of objects, many of which are visible to us as surfaces. Examples are people, cars, machines, computers and bananas. Exceptions are such things as clouds and trees, which have a more detailed, fuzzy structure. Computer vision aims to detect and reconstruct features of surfaces from the images produced by cameras, in some ways mimicking the way in which humans reconstruct features of the world around them by using their eyes. This book describes how the 3D shape of surfaces can be recovered from image sequences of outlines. Cipolla and Giblin provide all the necessary background in differential geometry (assuming knowledge of elementary algebra and calculus) and in the analysis of visual motion, and emphasizes intuitive visual understanding of the geometric techniques with computer-generated illustrations. They also give a thorough introduction to the mathematical techniques and the details of the implementations, and apply the methods to data from real images. |