Affine Analysis of Image Sequences (Distinguished Dissertations in Computer Science, Series Number 10) - Hardcover

Shapiro, Larry S.

 
9780521550635: Affine Analysis of Image Sequences (Distinguished Dissertations in Computer Science, Series Number 10)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521550637 ISBN 13: 9780521550635
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Computer vision is a rapidly growing field which aims to make computers 'see' as effectively as humans. In this book Dr Shapiro presents a new computer vision framework for interpreting time-varying imagery. This is an important task, since movement reveals valuable information about the environment. The fully-automated system operates on long, monocular image sequences containing multiple, independently-moving objects, and demonstrates the practical feasibility of recovering scene structure and motion in a bottom-up fashion. Real and synthetic examples are given throughout, with particular emphasis on image coding applications. Novel theory is derived in the context of the affine camera, a generalisation of the familiar scaled orthographic model. Analysis proceeds by tracking 'corner features' through successive frames and grouping the resulting trajectories into rigid objects using new clustering and outlier rejection techniques. The three-dimensional motion parameters are then computed via 'affine epipolar geometry', and 'affine structure' is used to generate alternative views of the object and fill in partial views. The use of all available features (over multiple frames) and the incorporation of statistical noise properties substantially improves existing algorithms, giving greater reliability and reduced noise sensitivity.

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Book Description

Computer vision is a rapidly growing field which aims to make computers 'see' as effectively as humans. In this book, based on his award-winning thesis, Dr Shapiro presents a new computer vision framework for interpreting time-varying imagery.

Review

..".provides an in-depth, thoughtful account of affine imaging and its application to the analysis of image sequences." M.R.M. Jenkin, Computing Reviews

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521550637
ISBN 13 
9780521550635
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
224

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