Computer Vision

doi:10.1016/S0065-2458(08)60261-2

Advances in Computers

Volume 27, 1988, Pages 265-308

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This chapter focuses on computer vision. The general goal of computer vision is to extract information about a scene by computer analysis of one or more images of that scene. It has many areas of application. One of the most challenging is robot guidance, in which the extracted information is used to control a robot manipulator or robot vehicle. Other major application areas include remote sensing (using images of the earth's surface taken from aircraft or satellites), radiology (using x-ray images), microscopy (using photomicrographs), and industrial inspection. Many different types of sensors can be used to obtain the images of a scene. Images can be formed by various types of electromagnetic radiation or by acoustic means. The major branches of image processing include image coding or compression, image enhancement and restoration, and image reconstruction from projections. The chapter also analyzes the images of 3-D scenes. Two levels of analysis are considered:(1) recovery of information about the visible surfaces in the scene and (2) recognition of objects that may be present in the scene.

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Computer Vision

Publisher Summary

“Computer Vision.”

“Computer Vision.”

“Fundamentals in Computer Vision–An Advanced Course.”

“Computer Image Processing and Recognition.”

“Computer Vision Systems.”

“Robot Vision.”

“Image Pattern Recognition.”

“Vision in Man and Machine.”

“Vision.”