Advances in Computer Vision

✍ Scribed by Joachim Weickert, Brahim Benhamouda (auth.), Prof. Dr. Franc Solina, Prof. Dr. Walter G. Kropatsch, Prof. Dr. Reinhard Klette, Prof. Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 268
• Series: Advances in Computing Science
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Computer vision solutions used to be very specific and difficult to adapt to different or even unforeseen situations. The current development is calling for simple to use yet robust applications that could be employed in various situations. This trend requires the reassessment of some theoretical issues in computer vision. A better general understanding of vision processes, new insights and better theories are needed. The papers selected from the conference staged in Dagstuhl in 1996 to gather scientists from the West and the former eastern-block countries address these goals and cover such fields as 2D images (scale space, morphology, segmentation, neural networks, Hough transform, texture, pyramids), recovery of 3-D structure (shape from shading, optical flow, 3-D object recognition) and how vision is integrated into a larger task-driven framework (hand-eye calibration, navigation, perception-action cycle).

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
A semidiscrete nonlinear scale-space theory and its relation to the Perona—Malik paradox....Pages 1-10
Topological approach to mathematical morphology....Pages 11-20
Segmentation by watersheds: definition and parallel implementation....Pages 21-30
A graph network for image segmentation....Pages 31-40
Associative memory for images by recurrent neural subnetworks....Pages 41-50
Optimal models for visual recognition....Pages 51-60
Order of points on a line segment....Pages 61-70
Subjective contours detection....Pages 71-77
Texture feature based interaction maps: potential and limits....Pages 79-88
Non-Markov Gibbs image model with almost local pairwise pixel interactions....Pages 89-98
Equivalent contraction kernels to build dual irregular pyramids....Pages 99-107
Towards a generalized primal sketch....Pages 109-118
Categorization through temporal analysis of patterns....Pages 119-128
Detection of regions of interest via the Pyramid Discrete Symmetry Transform....Pages 129-136
Dense depth maps by active color illumination and image pyramids....Pages 137-148
Local and global integration of discrete vector fields....Pages 149-158
A new approach to shape from shading....Pages 159-167
Recent uniqueness results in shape from shading....Pages 169-179
Computation of time-varying motion and structure parameters from real image sequences....Pages 181-190
A theory of occlusion in the context of optical flow....Pages 191-200
Algebraic method for solution of some best matching problems....Pages 201-209
Determining the attitude of planar objects with general curved contours from a single perspective view....Pages 211-220
CAD based 3d object recognition on range images....Pages 221-230
Dual quaternions for absolute orientation and hand-eye calibration....Pages 231-240
Segmentation of behavioral spaces for navigation tasks....Pages 241-250
Geometric algebra as a framework for the perception—action cycle....Pages 251-260
Back Matter....Pages 261-266

✦ Subjects

Image Processing and Computer Vision; Multimedia Information Systems; Pattern Recognition