In the current age of information technology, the issues of distributing and utilizing images efficiently and effectively are of substantial concern. Solutions to many of the problems arising from these issues are provided by techniques of image processing, among which segmentation and compression are topics of this book.
Image segmentation is a process for dividing an image into its constituent parts. For block-based segmentation using statistical classification, an image is divided into blocks and a feature vector is formed for each block by grouping statistics of its pixel...

In the early 1990s, the establishment of the Internet brought forth a revolutionary viewpoint of information storage, distribution, and processing: the World Wide Web is becoming an enormous and expanding distributed digital library. Along with the development of the Web, image indexing and retrieval have grown into research areas sharing a vision of intelligent agents. Far beyond Web searching, image indexing and retrieval can potentially be applied to many other areas, including biomedicine, space science, biometric identification, digital libraries, the military, education, commerce,...

With the increasing computing power of modern computers, 3D graphics technologies find more and more applications in various fields. For example, 3D animation techniques can produce spectacular movie scenes that are difficult by traditional methods. For many of these 3D graphics technologies, 3D shape analysis is the key. In the example, only with correct 3D shape models can one render a real sensed scene. This book focuses on latest research in 3D shape analysis including surface construction, shape classification and matching. It also discusses related supporting technologies such as image...

Die Rechtsprechung in China ist im stetigen Wandel. Gerade die Eingliederung in die WTO vor - nigen Jahren machte wesentliche Anderungen notwendig. Im Westen wird das chinesische Rech- system schon alleine wegen der Vieldeutigkeit der chinesischen Sprache oft als sehr schwer versta- lich angesehen, was durch die in der Vergangenheit auch vorhandene erschwerte Durchsetzung von Rechten in China begunstigt wurde. Jedoch waren bisher im deutschsprachigen Raum keine aktuellen Bucher und Informationen uber das chinesische Steuersystem verfugbar und dies, obwohl deutsche Firmen, die in China aktiv...

In the early 1990s, the establishment of the Internet brought forth a revolutionary viewpoint of information storage, distribution, and processing: the World Wide Web is becoming an enormous and expanding distributed digital library. Along with the development of the Web, image indexing and retrieval have grown into research areas sharing a vision of intelligent agents. Far beyond Web searching, image indexing and retrieval can potentially be applied to many other areas, including biomedicine, space science, biometric identification, digital libraries, the military, education, commerce,...

This book covers fundamental principles and computational approaches relevant to visual saliency computation. As an interdisciplinary problem, visual saliency computation is introduced in this book from an innovative perspective that combines both neurobiology and machine learning. The book is also well-structured to address a wide range of readers, from specialists in the field to general readers interested in computer science and cognitive psychology. With this book, a reader can start from the very basic question of "what is visual saliency?" and progressively explore the problems in...