Image Technology: Advances in Image Processing, Multimedia and Machine Vision

✍ Scribed by S. L. Bartlett, A. Hampapur, M. J. Huber, D. Kortenkamp, S. Moezzi (auth.), Dr. Jorge L. C. Sanz (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 757
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

§vImage processing and machine vision are fields of renewed interest in the commercial market. People in industry, managers, and technical engineers are looking for new technologies to move into the market. Many of the most promising developments are taking place in the field of image processing and its applications. The book offers a broad coverage of advances in a range of topics in image processing and machine vision.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXII
Vision for Mobile Robots....Pages 1-81
3D Constraints on Monocular Image Sequences: Theory and Algorithms....Pages 83-107
Integrating Selective Attention and Space-Variant Sensing in Machine Vision....Pages 109-127
Modeling Color Images for Machine Vision....Pages 129-146
A Fast Algorithm for MDL-Based Multi-Band Image Segmentation....Pages 147-177
A Vision System for Estimating People Flow....Pages 179-201
A Bayesian Network for Automatic Visual Crowding Estimation in Underground Stations....Pages 203-230
Recognition of Motor Vehicle License Plates in Rear-View Images....Pages 231-252
Automatic System of Quality Control by Vision of Hybrid Circuits....Pages 253-268
An Image Analysis Based Method to Evaluate Gravure Paper Quality....Pages 269-283
A Vision System for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle....Pages 285-306
Visual Inspection of Machined Parts....Pages 307-335
Texture Analysis in Industrial Applications....Pages 337-359
Methods for Illumination-Invariant Image Processing....Pages 361-383
A Comparison of Algorithms for Subpixel Peak Detection....Pages 385-404
Splines and Spline Fitting Revisited....Pages 405-437
Algorithms for a Fast Confocal Optical Inspection System....Pages 439-474
Qualitative Recognition of Aircraft in Perspective Aerial Images....Pages 475-517
Scanning Probe Microscopy: Trends and Image Processing Issues....Pages 519-577
Advances in Image Information Modeling....Pages 579-593
Lossless Compression of Medical Images by Content-Driven Laplacian Pyramid Splitting....Pages 595-611
Video Compression for Multimedia Applications....Pages 613-679
Directionality and Scalability in Subband Image and Video Compression....Pages 681-743
Back Matter....Pages 745-745

✦ Subjects

Image Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition