Scale-Space Theory in Computer Vision: 256 - Rilegato

Lindeberg, Tony

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ISBN 10: 0792394186 ISBN 13: 9780792394181

Casa editrice: Springer-Verlag GmbH, 1993

Riassunto

The problem of scale pervades both the natural sciences and the vi­ sual arts. The earliest scientific discussions concentrate on visual per­ ception (much like today!) and occur in Euclid's (c. 300 B. C. ) Optics and Lucretius' (c. 100-55 B. C. ) On the Nature of the Universe. A very clear account in the spirit of modern "scale-space theory" is presented by Boscovitz (in 1758), with wide ranging applications to mathemat­ ics, physics and geography. Early applications occur in the cartographic problem of "generalization", the central idea being that a map in order to be useful has to be a "generalized" (coarse grained) representation of the actual terrain (Miller and Voskuil 1964). Broadening the scope asks for progressive summarizing. Very much the same problem occurs in the (realistic) artistic rendering of scenes. Artistic generalization has been analyzed in surprising detail by John Ruskin (in his Modern Painters), who even describes some of the more intricate generic "scale-spacesin­ gularities" in detail: Where the ancients considered only the merging of blobs under blurring, Ruskin discusses the case where a blob splits off another one when the resolution is decreased, a case that has given rise to confusion even in the modern literature.

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` This approach will certainly turn out to be part of the foundations of the theory and practice of machine vision ... the author has no doubt performed an excellent service to many in the field of both artificial and biological vision. '
Jan Koenderink

Contenuti

1. Introduction and Overview. Part I: Basic Scale-Space Theory. 2. Linear Scale-Space and Related Multi-Scale Representations. 3. Scale-Space for 1-D Discrete Signals. 4. Scale-Space for N-D Discrete Signals. 5. Discrete Derivative Approximations with Scale-Space Properties. 6. Feature Detection in Scale-Space. Part II: The Scale-Space Primal Sketch: Theory. 7. The Scale-Space Primal Sketch. 8. Behaviour of Image Structures in Scale-Space: Deep Structure. 9. Algorithm for Computing the Scale-Space Primal Sketch. Part III: The Scale-Space Primal Sketch: Applications. 10. Detection Salient Blob-like Image Structures and their Scales. 11. Guiding Early Visual Processing with Qualitative Scale and Region. 12. Summary and Discussion. Part IV: Scale Selection and Shape Computation in a Visual Front-End. 13. Scale Selection for Differential Operators. 14. Direct Computation of Shape Cues by Scale-Space Operations. 15. Non-Uniform Smoothing. Appendix A: Technical Details. Bibliography. Index.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer-Verlag GmbH
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0792394186
• ISBN 13: 9780792394181
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 444
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