Document Image Analysis


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Interest in the automatic processing and analysis of document images has been rapidly increasing during the past few years. This book addresses the different subfields of document image analysis, including preprocessing and segmentation, form processing, handwriting recognition, line drawing and map processing, and contextual processing.




Advances in Image and Video Technology


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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Pacific Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, PSIVT 2008, held in Tokyo, Japan, in January 2009. The 39 revised full papers and 57 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 247 submissions. The symposium features 8 major themes including all aspects of image and video technology: image sensors and multimedia hardware; graphics and visualization; image and video analysis; recognition and retrieval; multi-view imaging and processing; computer vision applications; video communications and networking; and multimedia processing. The papers are organized in topical sections on faces and pedestrians; panoramic images; local image analysis; organization and grouping; multiview geometry; detection and tracking; computational photography and forgeries; coding and steganography; recognition and search; and reconstruction and visualization.







Digital Image Processing


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What Is Digital Image Processing The processing of digital photographs by means of an algorithm on a digital computer constitutes the field of digital image processing. Digital image processing, which is a subsection or field of digital signal processing, has numerous advantages over analog image processing, which is another type of image processing. It makes it possible to apply a much wider variety of algorithms to the data that is being entered and can help solve problems like the accumulation of noise and distortion as the data is being processed. Digital image processing can be described as multidimensional systems due to the fact that images are specified over two dimensions. The creation of digital image processing and its subsequent development are primarily influenced by three factors: first, the development of computers; second, the development of mathematics; and third, the increased demand for a diverse array of applications in the fields of environment, agriculture, military, industry, and medical science. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Digital image processing Chapter 2: 2D computer graphics Chapter 3: Affine transformation Chapter 4: YIQ Chapter 5: Sobel operator Chapter 6: Canny edge detector Chapter 7: Noise reduction Chapter 8: Discrete wavelet transform Chapter 9: Scale-invariant feature transform Chapter 10: Gaussian blur (II) Answering the public top questions about digital image processing. (III) Real world examples for the usage of digital image processing in many fields. (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of digital image processing' technologies. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of digital image processing.




Edge Detection


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What is Edge Detection Edge detection is a collection of mathematical techniques that are aimed at recognizing edges, which are defined as curves in a digital image at which the brightness of the image changes abruptly or, more formally, contains discontinuities. The difficulty of discovering discontinuities in one-dimensional signals is referred to as step detection, and the problem of finding signal discontinuities over time is referred to as change detection. Both of these techniques are used to find discontinuities in signals. The method of edge detection is an essential tool in the fields of image processing, machine vision, and computer vision, notably in the areas of feature detection and feature extraction. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Edge detection Chapter 2: Digital image processing Chapter 3: Sobel operator Chapter 4: Roberts cross Chapter 5: Canny edge detector Chapter 6: Marr-Hildreth algorithm Chapter 7: Scale-invariant feature transform Chapter 8: Discrete Laplace operator Chapter 9: Scale space Chapter 10: Prewitt operator (II) Answering the public top questions about edge detection. (III) Real world examples for the usage of edge detection in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Edge Detection.




Image Analysis


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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, SCIA 2011, held in Ystad, Sweden, in May 2011. The 74 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 140 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on multiple view geometry; segmentation; image analysis; categorization and classification; structure from motion and SLAM; medical and biomedical applications; 3D shape; medical imaging.




Image Mosaicing and Super-resolution


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This book investigates sets of images consisting of many overlapping viewsofa scene, and how the information contained within them may be combined to produce single images of superior quality. The generic name for such techniques is frame fusion. Using frame fusion, it is possible to extend the fieldof view beyond that ofany single image, to reduce noise, to restore high-frequency content, and even to increase spatial resolution and dynamic range. The aim in this book is to develop efficient, robust and automated frame fusion algorithms which may be applied to real image sequences. An essential step required to enable frame fusion is image registration: computing the point-to-point mapping between images in their overlapping region. This sub problem is considered in detail, and a robust and efficient solution is proposed and its accuracy evaluated. Two forms of frame fusion are then considered: image mosaic ing and super-resolution. Image mosaicing is the alignment of multiple images into a large composition which represents part of a 3D scene. Super-resolution is a more sophisticated technique which aims to restore poor-quality video sequences by mod elling and removing the degradations inherent in the imaging process, such as noise, blur and spatial-sampling. A key element in this book is the assumption of a completely uncalibrated cam era. No prior knowledge of the camera parameters, its motion, optics or photometric characteristics is assumed. The power of the methods is illustrated with many real image sequence examples.




Virtual Manufacturing


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This title on virtual manufacturing features an integrated approach and coverage of practical applications. It links virtual reality and Web-based production to manufacturing. It covers not only the technology, but the integration of the topics and their applications to manufacturing.




Advances in Image and Video Technology


Book Description

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Pacific Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, PSIVT 2006, held in Hsinchu, Taiwan in December 2006. The 76 revised full papers and 58 revised poster papers cover a wide range of topics, including all aspects of video and multimedia, both technical and artistic perspectives and both theoretical and practical issues.




LINEAR ALGEBRA


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Unit-1 1. Analytic Functions, Cauchy-Riemann Equations, Harmonic Functions 1-40 Complex Number System 1; Complex Numbers as Ordered Pairs 1; The Polar Form 1; Function of a Complex Variable 2; Single Valued Function(or Uniform Function) 2; Multiple-Valued Function(or Many-Valued Function) 3; Limit of a Function 3; Theorems on Limits 3; Continuity 3; Fundamental Operations as Applied to Continuous Function 4; Continuity in Terms of Real and Imaginary Parts of f(z) 4; Uniform Continuity 4; Differentiability of a Complex Function 5; Geometric Interpretation of the Derivative 5; Partial Derivative 6; Analytic Function 6; The Necessary Conditions for f(z) to be Analytic [(Cauchy-Riemann Equations (C-R Equations)] 6; The Sufficient Condition for f(z) to be Analytic 8; Polar Form of Cauchy-Riemann Equations 9; Derivative of w in Polar Form 11; Functions of a Function 12; Derivative of a Function of a Function 12; Inverse Function 12; Laplace Equation 13; Harmonic Function 13; Theorem 13; Conjugate Harmonic Functions 14; Theorem 14; Determination of the Conjugate Function 14; To Construct a Function f(z) when One Conjugate Function is Given 15; Orthogonal System 16; Theorem 16. 2. Mobius Transformation, Cross Ratio 41-68 Elementary Functions 41; Mapping or Transformation 43; Definition of Mapping 43; Mobius Transformation or Bilinear Transformation or Fractional Transformation 43; Inverse Transformation 44; Critical Points and Critical Mapping 44; Resultant or Product of Two Mobius Transformations (Group Property) 45; Some Theorems 46; Fixed Points (or Invariant Points) of Mobius Transformation 47; Theorem 48; Cross Ratio 48; Some Theorems 49; The Circle 54; Inverse Points with Respect to a Circle 55; To find the Relation between the Inverse Points with Respect to the Circle 55; Nature of Transformations (Elliptic, Hyperbolic and Parabolic Transformations) 56; Some Theorems 58. 3. Vector Space 69-123 Vector Space 69; Various Notations 70; General Properties (Elementary Properties) of Vector Spaces 70; Vector Subspace 77; Union and Intersection of Subspaces 83; Sum of Subspaces 85; Some Definitions 91; Basis of a Vector Space 91; Dimension of a Vector Space 92; Finite Dimensional Vector Space 102; Some Theorems on Finite Dimensional Spaces 102; Quotient Space 115. 4. Linear Transformation 124-158 Definition 124; Purpose 124; Image 124; Existence and Uniqueness 124; Types of Linear Transformation 127; Determining whether a Mapping is Linear Transformation or Not 127; Isomorphism of Vector Spaces 133; Theorems on Isomorphism 134; Kernel of Linear Transformation T or Kernel of a Homomorphism T 142; Theorem 142; Range of a Linear Transformation 143; Theorem 143; Lemma 144; Sylvester Law of Nullity [Rank-Nullity Theorem] 144; Fundamental Theorem of Vector Space Homomorphism 146. 5. Inner Product Spaces 159-200 Inner Product 159; Usual or Standard Inner Product 159; Inner Product Space 162; Theorems 162; Some Important Terms about Vectors 168; Norm or Length of a Vector a in an Inner Product Space 168; Theorems 169; Orthogonality 170; Orthogonal Complement 171; Orthogonal Basis and Orthonormal Basis 172; Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization Process 172; Theorems on Orthogonal/ Orthonormal Bases 173; Cauchy-Schwarz’s Inequality or Schwarz’s Inequality 186; Bessel’s Inequality 188; Normed Vector Space or Normal Vector Space 194; Distance in an Inner Product Space 195.