Depth Map and 3D Imaging Applications : Algorithms and Technologies

Over the last decade, significant progress has been made in 3D imaging research. As a result, 3D imaging methods and techniques are being employed for various applications, including 3D television, intelligent robotics, medical imaging, and stereovision. Depth Map and 3D Imaging Applications: Algorithms and Technologies present various 3D algorithms developed in the recent years and to investigate the application of 3D methods in various domains. Containing five sections, this book offers perspectives on 3D imaging algorithms, 3D shape recovery, stereoscopic vision and autostereoscopic vision, 3D vision for robotic applications, and 3D imaging applications. This book is an important resource for professionals, scientists, researchers, academics, and software engineers in image/video processing and computer vision.

Aamir Saeed Malik has a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, MS in Nuclear Engineering from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, another MS in Information & Communication and PhD in Information & Mechatronics from Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea. He has more than 10 years of research experience and has worked for GoP, IBM and Hamdard University in Pakistan and Yeungnam and Hanyang Universities in South Korea. He is currently working at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS in Malaysia. He is Senior Member of IEEE. His research interests include image processing, 3D shape recovery, medical imaging, EEG signal processing and content based image retrieval (CBIR).

Tae-Sun Choi received the BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the Seoul Nation University, Seoul, Korea, in 1976, the MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea, in 1979 and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1993. He is currently a Professor in the School of Information and Mechatronics at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Korea. His research interests include image processing, machine/robot vision and visual communications.

Humaira Nisar received the BE (Honors) in Electrical Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan in 1993. She received MS degree in Nuclear Engineering from Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan in 1995. She received MS degree in Mechatronics and PhD in Information and Mechatronics from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea in 2000 and 2008 respectively. Currently, she is Assistant Professor at Department of Electronics Engineering, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia. Her research interests include image processing, motion estimation, video compression and signal processing.