Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> Software Development & Engineering - Computer Graphics

The research book is focused on the recent advances in computer vision methodologies and innovations in practice. The Contributions include:

- Human Action Recognition: Contour-Based and Silhouette-based Approaches.

- The Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Real Time Audience Analysis System.

- Panorama Construction from Multi-view Cameras in Outdoor Scenes.

- A New Real-Time Method of Contextual Image Description and Its Application in Robot Navigation and Intelligent Control.

- Perception of Audio Visual Information for Mobile Robot...

Panoramas have a captivating effect, whether integrated in a personal homepage or professionally used in architecture, in museums or in company or product presentations. Written in a comprehensive, yet easy-to-understand format, this book details all of the necessary steps involved in panoramic photography: from the production of digital and analog picture sequences, "stitching" using software tools (like REALVIZ Stitcher, VR Worx and PanoTools), all the way to publishing interactive panoramas on the Web (e.g., using QuickTime VR, PTViewer, VRML and iPIX). The book introduces the...

This book is instrumental to building a bridge between scientists and clinicians in the field of spine imaging by introducing state-of-the-art computational methods in the context of clinical applications. Spine imaging via computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and other radiologic imaging modalities, is essential for noninvasively visualizing and assessing spinal pathology. Computational methods support and enhance the physician's ability to utilize these imaging techniques for diagnosis, non-invasive treatment, and intervention in clinical practice.

Chapters cover a...

In Computer Graphics, the use of intelligent techniques started more recently than in other research areas. However, during these last two decades, the use of intelligent Computer Graphics techniques is growing up year after year and more and more interesting techniques are presented in this area.

The purpose of this volume is to present current work of the Intelligent Computer Graphics community, a community growing up year after year. This volume is a kind of continuation of the previously published Springer volumes "Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Computer Graphics"...

Recent advances in biometrics include new developments in sensors, modalities and algorithms. As new sensors are designed, newer challenges emerge in the algorithms for accurate recognition. Written for researchers, advanced students and practitioners to use as a handbook, this volume captures the very latest state-of-the-art research contributions from leading international researchers. It offers coverage of the entire gamut of topics in the field, including sensors, data acquisition, pattern-matching algorithms, and issues that impact at the system level, such as standards, security,...

This monograph introduces novel responses to the different problems that arise when multiple robots need to execute a task in cooperation, each robot in the team having a monocular camera as its primary input sensor. Its central proposition is that a consistent perception of the world is crucial for the good development of any multi-robot application. The text focuses on the high-level problem of cooperative perception by a multi-robot system: the idea that, depending on what each robot sees and its current situation, it will need to communicate these things to its fellows whenever...

Evaluating interactive systems for their user experience (UX) is a standard approach in industry and research today. This book explores the areas of game design and development and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) as ways to understand the various contributing aspects of the overall gaming experience.

Fully updated, extended and revised this book is based upon the original publication Evaluating User Experience in Games, and provides updated methods and approaches ranging from user- orientated methods to game specific approaches. New and emerging methods and areas explored...

This unique text/reference presents a comprehensive review of the state of the art in sparse representations, modeling and learning. The book examines both the theoretical foundations and details of algorithm implementation, highlighting the practical application of compressed sensing research in visual recognition and computer vision.

Topics and features: provides a thorough introduction to the fundamentals of sparse representation, modeling and learning, and the application of these techniques in visual recognition; describes sparse recovery approaches, robust and efficient sparse...

This unique text/reference presents a selection of innovative computational techniques to enable the efficient analysis of biological processes in large video sequences and databases. Examples are drawn from numerous topics of significant current interest, such as 2D/3D live imaging, mild-traumatic brain injury, human embryonic stem cells, the growth of pollen tubes, cell tracking, and cell trafficking. To address various challenges, multiple imaging modalities are proposed at varying spatial and temporal resolutions, in conjunction with novel computational methods for video mining and...

The two volume set LNCS 9474 and LNCS 9475 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2015, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA in December 2015.

The 115 revised full papers and 35 poster papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 260 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: Part I (LNCS 9474) comprises computational bioimaging; computer graphics; motion and tracking; segmentation; recognition; visualization; mapping; modeling and surface reconstruction; advancing autonomy for aerial...