Author : Andrea Fossati
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447146409
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)
Book Synopsis Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision by : Andrea Fossati
Download or read book Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision written by Andrea Fossati and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The potential of consumer depth cameras extends well beyond entertainment and gaming, to real-world commercial applications. This authoritative text reviews the scope and impact of this rapidly growing field, describing the most promising Kinect-based research activities, discussing significant current challenges, and showcasing exciting applications. Features: presents contributions from an international selection of preeminent authorities in their fields, from both academic and corporate research; addresses the classic problem of multi-view geometry of how to correlate images from different viewpoints to simultaneously estimate camera poses and world points; examines human pose estimation using video-rate depth images for gaming, motion capture, 3D human body scans, and hand pose recognition for sign language parsing; provides a review of approaches to various recognition problems, including category and instance learning of objects, and human activity recognition; with a Foreword by Dr. Jamie Shotton.