Visual Analysis of Humans: Looking at People - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1447159144 ISBN 13: 9781447159148

Casa editrice: Springer-Nature New York Inc, 2013

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This unique text/reference provides a coherent and comprehensive overview of all aspects of video analysis of humans. Broad in coverage and accessible in style, the text presents original perspectives collected from preeminent researchers gathered from across the world. In addition to presenting state-of-the-art research, the book reviews the historical origins of the different existing methods, and predicts future trends and challenges. Features: with a Foreword by Professor Larry Davis; contains contributions from an international selection of leading authorities in the field; includes an extensive glossary; discusses the problems associated with detecting and tracking people through camera networks; examines topics related to determining the time-varying 3D pose of a person from video; investigates the representation and recognition of human and vehicular actions; reviews the most important applications of activity recognition, from biometrics and surveillance, to sports and driver assistance.

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<p>Understanding human activity from video is one of the central problems in the field of computer vision, driven by a wide variety of applications in communications, entertainment, security, commerce, and athletics.</p><p>This unique text/reference provides a coherent and comprehensive overview of all aspects of video analysis of humans. Broad in coverage and accessible in style, the text presents original perspectives collected from preeminent researchers gathered from across the world. In addition to presenting state-of-the-art research, the book reviews the historical origins of the different existing methods, and predicts future trends and challenges.</p><p><b>Topics and features:</b></p><ul><li>With a Foreword by Professor Larry Davis of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, USA</li><li>Contains contributions from an international selection of leading authorities in the field</li><li>Includes an extensive glossary</li><li>Discusses the problems associated with detecting and tracking people through camera networks</li><li>Examines topics related to determining the time-varying 3D pose of a person from video</li><li>Investigates the representation and recognition of human actions</li><li>Reviews the most important applications of activity recognition, from biometrics and surveillance, to sports and driver assistance</li></ul><p>With its all-encompassing scope, this essential reference will be of great value not only to graduate students in computer vision, but also to all researchers and professionals interested in systems for the visual analysis of humans.</p><p><b>Dr. Thomas B. Moeslund</b> is an Associate Professor in the Department of <i>Architecture, Design </i><i>&amp;</i><i> </i><i> </i>Media Technology at Aalborg University, Denmark. <b>Dr. Adrian Hilton</b> is Professor and Head of the Visual Media Research Group at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. <b>Dr. Volker Krüger</b> is an Associate Professor and Head of the Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence Laboratory at Aalborg University. <b>Dr. Leonid Sigal</b> is a Research Scientist at Disney Research, Pittsburgh, PA USA.</p>

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer-Nature New York Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1447159144
• ISBN 13: 9781447159148
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 647
• Redattore: Moeslund Thomas B., Hilton Adrian, Krger Volker, Sigal Leonid
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