This book introduces the fundamentals of computer vision (CV), with a focus on extracting useful information from digital images and videos. Including a wealth of methods used in detecting and classifying image objects and their shapes, it is the first book to apply a trio of tools (computational geometry, topology and algorithms) in solving CV problems, shape tracking in image object recognition and detecting the repetition of shapes in single images and video frames. Computational geometry provides a visualization of topological structures such as neighborhoods of points embedded in images, while image topology supplies us with structures useful in the analysis and classication of image regions. Algorithms provide a practical, step-by-step means of viewing image structures.

The implementations of CV methods in Matlab and Mathematica, classication of chapter problems with the symbols (easily solved) and (challenging) and its extensive glossary of key words, examples and connections with the fabric of CV make the book an invaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and rst year graduate students in Engineering, Computer Science or Applied Mathematics.

It offers insights into the design of CV experiments, inclusion of image processing methods in CV projects, as well as the reconstruction and interpretation of recorded natural scenes.

Discusses computer vision with a focus on extracting useful information from images and on the detection of the basic content of digital images Studies the basics of image processing and image analysis as well as vector space and computational geometry views of images Introduces the fundamentals of computer vision Includes not only the basics of image processing and image analysis but also visualization, vector space and computational geometry aspects of digital images Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt

Basics Leading to Machine Vision.- Working with Pixels.- Visualising Pixel Intensity Distributions.- Linear Filtering.- Edges, Lines, Corners, Gaussian kernel and Voronoï Meshes.- Delaunay Mesh Segmentation.- Video Processing. An Introduction to Real-Time and Oine Video Analysis.- Lowe Keypoints, Maximal Nucleus Clusters, Contours and Shapes.- Postscript. Where Do Shapes t into the Computer Vision Landscape?.