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Pyramidal Systems for Computer Vision

Author : Virginio Cantoni
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642829406
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Book Synopsis Pyramidal Systems for Computer Vision by : Virginio Cantoni

Download or read book Pyramidal Systems for Computer Vision written by Virginio Cantoni and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in Maratea (Italy), May 5-9, 1986 on Pyramidal Systems for Image Processing and Computer Vision. We had 40 participants from 11 countries playing an active part in the workshop and all the leaders of groups that have produced a prototype pyramid machine or a design for such a machine were present. Within the wide field of parallel architectures for image processing a new area was recently born and is growing healthily: the area of pyramidally structured multiprocessing systems. Essentially, the processors are arranged in planes (from a base to an apex) each one of which is generally a reduced (usually by a power of two) version of the plane underneath: these processors are horizontally interconnected (within a plane) and vertically connected with "fathers" (on top planes) and "children" on the plane below. This arrangement has a number of interesting features, all of which were amply discussed in our Workshop including the cellular array and hypercube versions of pyramids. A number of projects (in different parts of the world) are reported as well as some interesting applications in computer vision, tactile systems and numerical calculations.

Pyramidal Architectures for Computer Vision

Author : Virginio Cantoni
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146152413X
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Book Synopsis Pyramidal Architectures for Computer Vision by : Virginio Cantoni

Download or read book Pyramidal Architectures for Computer Vision written by Virginio Cantoni and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer vision deals with the problem of manipulating information contained in large quantities of sensory data, where raw data emerge from the transducing 6 7 sensors at rates between 10 to 10 pixels per second. Conventional general purpose computers are unable to achieve the computation rates required to op erate in real time or even in near real time, so massively parallel systems have been used since their conception in this important practical application area. The development of massively parallel computers was initially character ized by efforts to reach a speedup factor equal to the number of processing elements (linear scaling assumption). This behavior pattern can nearly be achieved only when there is a perfect match between the computational struc ture or data structure and the system architecture. The theory of hierarchical modular systems (HMSs) has shown that even a small number of hierarchical levels can sizably increase the effectiveness of very large systems. In fact, in the last decade several hierarchical architectures that support capabilities which can overcome performances gained with the assumption of linear scaling have been proposed. Of these architectures, the most commonly considered in com puter vision is the one based on a very large number of processing elements (PEs) embedded in a pyramidal structure. Pyramidal architectures supply the same image at different resolution lev els, thus ensuring the use of the most appropriate resolution for the operation, task, and image at hand.

A Pyramid Framework for Early Vision

Author : Jean-Michel Jolion
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461527929
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Book Synopsis A Pyramid Framework for Early Vision by : Jean-Michel Jolion

Download or read book A Pyramid Framework for Early Vision written by Jean-Michel Jolion and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biological visual systems employ massively parallel processing to perform real-world visual tasks in real time. A key to this remarkable performance seems to be that biological systems construct representations of their visual image data at multiple scales. A Pyramid Framework for Early Vision describes a multiscale, or `pyramid', approach to vision, including its theoretical foundations, a set of pyramid-based modules for image processing, object detection, texture discrimination, contour detection and processing, feature detection and description, and motion detection and tracking. It also shows how these modules can be implemented very efficiently on hypercube-connected processor networks. A Pyramid Framework for Early Vision is intended for both students of vision and vision system designers; it provides a general approach to vision systems design as well as a set of robust, efficient vision modules.

Highly Redundant Sensing in Robotic Systems

Author : Julius T. Tou
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642840515
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Book Synopsis Highly Redundant Sensing in Robotic Systems by : Julius T. Tou

Download or read book Highly Redundant Sensing in Robotic Systems written by Julius T. Tou and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design of intelligent robots is one of the most important endeavors in robotics research today. The key to intelligent robot design lies in sensory systems for robotic control and manipulation. In an unstructural environment, robotic sensing translates measurements and characteristics of the environment and working objects into useful information. A robotic system is usually equipped with a variety of sensors to perform redundant sensing and achieve data fusion. This book contains revised versions of papers presented at a NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in Florida in September 1989 within the activities of the NATO Special Programme on Sensory Systems for Robotic Control. The fundamental issues addressed in this volume were: - Theory and techniques, including knowledge-based systems, geometrical fusion, Boolean fusion, probabilistic fusion, feature-based fusion, error-estimation approach, and Markov process modeling. - General concepts, including microscopic redundancy at the sensory element level, macroscopic redundancy at the sensory system level, parallel redundancy, and standby redundancy. - Implementation and application, including robotic control, sensory technology, robotic assembly, robot fingers, sensory signal processing, sensory system integration, and PAPIA architecture. - Biological analogies, including neural nets, pattern recognition, low-level fusion, and motor learning.

Pyramidal Neural Networks

Author : Horst Bischof
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780805819144
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Pyramidal Neural Networks written by Horst Bischof and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A large amount of information about the world we live in is supplied by our visual systems. Humans perform the task of vision effortlessly without being aware of this complex process. Hierarchical structures permit successful examination of such intricate operations. This book investigates hierarchical-structured neural networks for vision and image processing tasks and proposes various new neural network models for that purpose. It exploits the capabilities of hierarchical neural networks in a systematic way by considering the similarities to hierarchical structures already in use by computer vision researchers. All issues of hierarchical neural networks are treated in considerable detail; that is, the structure of the network, the representation issue, and learning mechanisms are analyzed theoretically as well as experimentally. Considering the similarity between conventional vision algorithms and hierarchical neural networks not only allows a transfer of knowledge between these two fields, but also gives voice to many new algorithms.

Parallel Computer Vision

Author : Leonard Uhr
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0323156207
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Parallel Computer Vision written by Leonard Uhr and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parallel Computer Vision

Computer Vision: Specialized Processors for Real-Time Image Analysis

Author : Eduard Montseny
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540570165
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Computer Vision: Specialized Processors for Real-Time Image Analysis by : Eduard Montseny

Download or read book Computer Vision: Specialized Processors for Real-Time Image Analysis written by Eduard Montseny and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1994-08-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer vision falls short of human vision in two respects: execution time and intelligent interpretation. This book addresses the question of execution time. It is based on a workshop on specialized processors for real-time image analysis, held as part of the activities of an ESPRIT Basic Research Action, the Working Group on Vision. The aim of the book is to examine the state of the art in vision-oriented computers. Two approaches are distinguished: multiprocessor systems and fine-grain massively parallel computers. The development of fine-grain machines has become more important over the last decade, but one of the main conclusions of the workshop is that this does not imply the replacement of multiprocessor machines. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1 introduces different architectures for vision: associative and pyramid processors as examples of fine-grain machines and a workstation with bus-oriented network topology as an example of a multiprocessor system. Parts 2 and 3 deal with the design and development of dedicated and specialized architectures. Part 4 is mainly devoted to applications, including road segmentation, mobile robot guidance and navigation, reconstruction and identification of 3D objects, and motion estimation.

Issues on Machine Vision

Author : G.G. Pieroni
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3709128307
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Issues on Machine Vision by : G.G. Pieroni

Download or read book Issues on Machine Vision written by G.G. Pieroni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-04 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A machine vision system should be able to analyze images and produce descriptions of what it "sees". The descriptions should capture the aspects of the objects being imaged and be useful for accomplishing some specific tasks. In this volume a number of subjects are discussed. They include theoretical aspects which focus on shape analysis, special architectures, 3-D image decomposition, inspection by machine vision, and others. Applications include geophysical image analysis, robotics, sparse image understanding, biomedical applications. An ample survey of the present industrial applications is also provided.

Geometry-Driven Diffusion in Computer Vision

Author : Bart M. Haar Romeny
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401716994
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Geometry-Driven Diffusion in Computer Vision by : Bart M. Haar Romeny

Download or read book Geometry-Driven Diffusion in Computer Vision written by Bart M. Haar Romeny and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scale is a concept the antiquity of which can hardly be traced. Certainly the familiar phenomena that accompany sc ale changes in optical patterns are mentioned in the earliest written records. The most obvious topological changes such as the creation or annihilation of details have been a topic to philosophers, artists and later scientists. This appears to of fascination be the case for all cultures from which extensive written records exist. For th instance, chinese 17 c artist manuals remark that "distant faces have no eyes" . The merging of details is also obvious to many authors, e. g. , Lucretius mentions the fact that distant islands look like a single one. The one topo logical event that is (to the best of my knowledge) mentioned only late (by th John Ruskin in his "Elements of drawing" of the mid 19 c) is the splitting of a blob on blurring. The change of images on a gradual increase of resolu tion has been a recurring theme in the arts (e. g. , the poetic description of the distant armada in Calderon's The Constant Prince) and this "mystery" (as Ruskin calls it) is constantly exploited by painters.

Intelligent Perceptual Systems

Author : Vito Roberto
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540573791
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (737 download)

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Download or read book Intelligent Perceptual Systems written by Vito Roberto and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1993-11-10 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perceptual processes in humans and machines, investigated and simulated by means of the computational approach, are the subject matter of this volume. Researchers in artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, and psychology discuss aspects of vision, speech understanding, sensory-motor coordination, and their interplay with cognitive and behavioral functionalities. The papers adopt the computational approach as the basic research paradigm. Connectionist models, numerical and statistical techniques, symbolic (logic-based) formalisms, and hybrid representations provide the formal background to the research. Some of the papers were prepared for a workshop held in Trieste, Italy, in October 1992.

Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications

Author : Eduardo Bayro Corrochano
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642102670
Total Pages : 1082 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Book Synopsis Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications by : Eduardo Bayro Corrochano

Download or read book Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications written by Eduardo Bayro Corrochano and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2009, held in Guadalajara, Mexico, in November 2009. The 64 revised full papers presented together with 44 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 187 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image coding, processing and analysis; segmentation, analysis of shape and texture; geometric image processing and analysis; analysis of signal, speech and language; document processing and recognition; feature extraction, clustering and classification; statistical pattern recognition; neural networks for pattern recognition; computer vision; video segmentation and tracking; robot vision; intelligent remote sensing, imagery research and discovery techniques; intelligent computing for remote sensing imagery; as well as intelligent fusion and classification techniques.

Computer Vision--ECCV '92

Author : Giulio Sandini
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540554264
Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (542 download)

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Book Synopsis Computer Vision--ECCV '92 by : Giulio Sandini

Download or read book Computer Vision--ECCV '92 written by Giulio Sandini and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1992-04-29 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects the papers accepted for presentation at the Second European Conference on Computer Vision, held in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, May 19-22, 1992. Sixteen long papers, 41 short papers and 48 posters were selected from 308 submissions. The contributions are structured into 14 sections reflecting the major research topics in computer vision currently investigated worldwide. The sections are entitled: features, color, calibration and matching, depth, stereo-motion, tracking, active vision, binocular heads, curved surfaces and objects, reconstruction and shape, recognition, and applications.

Multisensor Fusion for Computer Vision

Author : J. K. Aggarwal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 366202957X
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis Multisensor Fusion for Computer Vision by : J. K. Aggarwal

Download or read book Multisensor Fusion for Computer Vision written by J. K. Aggarwal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains revised papers based on contributions to the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Multisensor Fusion for Computer Vision, held in Grenoble, France, in June 1989. The 24 papers presented here cover a broad range of topics, including the principles and issues in multisensor fusion, information fusion for navigation, multisensor fusion for object recognition, network approaches to multisensor fusion, computer architectures for multi sensor fusion, and applications of multisensor fusion. The participants met in the beautiful surroundings of Mont Belledonne in Grenoble to discuss their current work in a setting conducive to interaction and the exchange of ideas. Each participant is a recognized leader in his or her area in the academic, governmental, or industrial research community. The workshop focused on techniques for the fusion or integration of sensor information to achieve the optimum interpretation of a scene. Several participants presented novel points of view on the integration of information. The 24 papers presented in this volume are based on those collected by the editor after the workshop, and reflect various aspects of our discussions. The papers are organized into five parts, as follows.

Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns

Author : Dmitry Chetverikov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540572336
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)

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Book Synopsis Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns by : Dmitry Chetverikov

Download or read book Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns written by Dmitry Chetverikov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1993-08-30 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP'93), held in Budapest, Hungary, in September 1993. Formerly, the events in this biennial conference series were thought as a forum where East European researchers and professionals from academia and industry had an opportunity to discuss their results and ideas with Western colleagues active in image processing and pattern recognition. Now, CAIP'93 has a much more international scope, and in the future these conferences will not any longertake place only in East European countries, but roam throughout whole Europe. Besides invited talks by Belikova, Gimel'farb, Haralick and Roska, the volume contains 114 contributions, either presented as lectures or posters and carefully selected by a highly competent international program committee from a total of some 230 submissions; thus the book gives a thorough survey on recent research results and their applications in image processing and pattern recognition. The proceedings is organized in 20 sections, for example on image data structures, image processing, edges and contours, Hough transforms and related methods, shape, motion, 3-D vision, character recognition and document processing, biomedical applications, industrial applications, and neural networks.

Structured Computer Vision

Author : S Tanimoto
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0323159265
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Structured Computer Vision written by S Tanimoto and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structured Computer Vision

Expert Systems and Robotics

Author : Timothy Jordanides
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642764657
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Expert Systems and Robotics written by Timothy Jordanides and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The areas of intelligent machines or robotic systems is of enormous technological and economic interest as competition in productivity intensifies. This volume gives the proceedings of the 1990 Advanced Study Institute on Expert Systems and Robotics. It presents research work already accomplished in the analytical theory of intelligent machines, work in progress and of current interest and some specific examples for further research. The papers in the volume range from the most theoretical to some descriptions of very practical working robots. The papers are organized into sections on vision and image analysis, robotic sensory systems, software/hardware and system simulation, robot control, applications, and reports of group meetings.

Multicomputer Vision

Author : S. Levialdi
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0323141153
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Multicomputer Vision written by S. Levialdi and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multicomputer Vision is a collection of papers and discussions presented at the 8th Workshop on Multicomputers, held in Rome, Italy on June 2-5, 1987. Contributors present multicomputer algorithms for image processing, evaluation and suggestions on multicomputer systems, and new designs in advanced architectures for computer vision. Separating 12 papers into chapters, this book first describes a pyramidal algorithm for image segmentation based on the definition of the “bimean of a population. It then examines the use of Polymorphic Torus architecture to yield positive results in the computation of Hough Transform through executing mesh and tree algorithms. The succeeding papers present the five-level quad-tree pyramid algorithm based on chips from the MPP machine and the algorithm databases required for scheduling and reconfiguration decisions based on the user’s task definition. Other chapters oriented towards the evaluation of multicomputer systems are also provided. These chapters include discussions on multi-processor architectures based on perceptual tasks, the advantages of fine grain associative string structure for general purpose computer vision system, and the use of identical single processor elements for comparison between processor arrays and pipeline computers. The book also contains papers oriented on the design features of new multiprocessor architectures. These papers discuss the memory limitations of parallel machines and the physical realization of a one-dimensional array of 128 to 1024 identical processors. This book provides an informal frame of reference to researchers who are interested in the design and development of algorithms, and architectures or languages of multiprocessor systems.