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Image understanding 1984
COMPUTER
VISION,
GRAPHICS,
AND IMAGE PROCESSING
31, 392-394 (1985)
BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW Image Understanding 1984 Shimon Ulhnan and Whitman Norwood, N.J., 1984, xix + 268 pp. $34.50.
Richards, Eds. Ablex,
This is the first volume of an annual series of collections of milestone papers on computer vision and is an excellent collection. It begins with the landmark work of Marr and contains papers related, to both his primal sketch and 2:D sketch. These papers are a must for anyone seriously interested in low- and mid-level vision. The chapters and their authors are: 1, Early Processing of Visual Information, David Marr; 2, Visual Hyperacuity: Spatiotemporal Interpolation in Human Vision, M. Fable and T. Poggio; 3, Scale Space Filtering: A New Approach to Multi-Scale Description, Andrew P. Witkin; 4, Photometric Method for Determining Shape from Shading, Robert, J. Woodham; 5, A Computational Model of Binocular Depth Perception, J. E. W. Mayhew and H. C. Longuet-Higgins; 6, Uniqueness and Estimation of 3-D Motion Parameters and Surface Structures of Rigid Objects, Roger Y. Tsai and Thomas S. Huang; 7, Configurations That Defeat the 8-Point Algorithm, H. C. Longuet-Higgins; 8, The Interpretation of a Moving Retinal Image, H. C. Longuet-Higgins and K. Prazdny; 9, On the Reconstruction of Visible Surfaces, W. E. L. Grimson; and 10, Multiresolution Algorithms in Computational Vision, Demetri Terzopoulos.
Knowledge-Based Interpretation of Outdoor Natural Color Scenes. Y. Ohta. Pitman, Marshfleld, Mass., 1985. 8 + 136 pp. $19.50. This monograph is No. 4 in a new series entitled “Research Notes in Artificial Intelligence.” It is a revised version of the author’s Ph.D. thesis at Kyoto University. Significant contributions of the thesis include the derivation of color features for image segmentation using a Karhunen-Loeve transformation; initial segmentation of the image into regions based on color data; and a rule-based system for region analysis. The system was successfully applied to a variety of outdoor scenes containing sky, trees, buildings, and roads. Seven titles in this new series have been announced. The only other title in the vision area is “Shape from Texture” by John Kender. The publishers are performing a useful service to the field by making significant Ph.D. theses available in monograph form.
Modem Cellular Automata-Theory and Applications. K. Preston, Jr. and M. J. B. Duff. Plenum, New York, 1984. xviii + 340 pp. $49.50. Local operations performed in parallel (i.e., independently) on each pixel of an image have been the mainstay of digital image processing and analysis since its earliest beginnings. “Cellular” hardware architectures suitable for implementation of 392 0734-189X/85
$3.00
Copyright 0 1985 by Academic Press, Inc. All rights of reproduction in any form reserved.
VISION,
GRAPHICS,
AND IMAGE PROCESSING
31, 392-394 (1985)
BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW Image Understanding 1984 Shimon Ulhnan and Whitman Norwood, N.J., 1984, xix + 268 pp. $34.50.
Richards, Eds. Ablex,
This is the first volume of an annual series of collections of milestone papers on computer vision and is an excellent collection. It begins with the landmark work of Marr and contains papers related, to both his primal sketch and 2:D sketch. These papers are a must for anyone seriously interested in low- and mid-level vision. The chapters and their authors are: 1, Early Processing of Visual Information, David Marr; 2, Visual Hyperacuity: Spatiotemporal Interpolation in Human Vision, M. Fable and T. Poggio; 3, Scale Space Filtering: A New Approach to Multi-Scale Description, Andrew P. Witkin; 4, Photometric Method for Determining Shape from Shading, Robert, J. Woodham; 5, A Computational Model of Binocular Depth Perception, J. E. W. Mayhew and H. C. Longuet-Higgins; 6, Uniqueness and Estimation of 3-D Motion Parameters and Surface Structures of Rigid Objects, Roger Y. Tsai and Thomas S. Huang; 7, Configurations That Defeat the 8-Point Algorithm, H. C. Longuet-Higgins; 8, The Interpretation of a Moving Retinal Image, H. C. Longuet-Higgins and K. Prazdny; 9, On the Reconstruction of Visible Surfaces, W. E. L. Grimson; and 10, Multiresolution Algorithms in Computational Vision, Demetri Terzopoulos.
Knowledge-Based Interpretation of Outdoor Natural Color Scenes. Y. Ohta. Pitman, Marshfleld, Mass., 1985. 8 + 136 pp. $19.50. This monograph is No. 4 in a new series entitled “Research Notes in Artificial Intelligence.” It is a revised version of the author’s Ph.D. thesis at Kyoto University. Significant contributions of the thesis include the derivation of color features for image segmentation using a Karhunen-Loeve transformation; initial segmentation of the image into regions based on color data; and a rule-based system for region analysis. The system was successfully applied to a variety of outdoor scenes containing sky, trees, buildings, and roads. Seven titles in this new series have been announced. The only other title in the vision area is “Shape from Texture” by John Kender. The publishers are performing a useful service to the field by making significant Ph.D. theses available in monograph form.
Modem Cellular Automata-Theory and Applications. K. Preston, Jr. and M. J. B. Duff. Plenum, New York, 1984. xviii + 340 pp. $49.50. Local operations performed in parallel (i.e., independently) on each pixel of an image have been the mainstay of digital image processing and analysis since its earliest beginnings. “Cellular” hardware architectures suitable for implementation of 392 0734-189X/85
$3.00
Copyright 0 1985 by Academic Press, Inc. All rights of reproduction in any form reserved.