Foundation Of Media Computing

This comprehensive book presents the foundation of media computing that cuts across various areas, including computer vision, computational photography, computational geometry, 3D computer graphics modeling, surgery planning and simulation, and music computing. It emphasizes both mathematical foundation and practical applications.

The wide range of illustrated examples and case studies will make this reference text useful for professionals, researchers, academics, graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in media computing and related areas.

Wee Kheng Leow obtained his BSc and MSc in National University of Singapore in 1985 and 1989, respectively. After obtaining PhD in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin in 1994, he joined the Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore and later become an Associate Professor. He has worked in areas including neural networks, image processing, computer vision and 3D modelling. His current research focuses on medical image analysis and surgery simulation and planning. He has published many technical papers in journals and conferences. He has also been awarded three US patents and a Singapore patent. He has collaborated widely with many local and overseas institutions, including National Taiwan University and National Taiwan University Hospital. His current active collaborators include Singapore General Hospital, National University Hospital, Peking University First Hospital and a Singapore subsidiary of Furui Medical Science Company at Beijing.