Visual motion of curves and surfaces. (English) Zbl 1007.68001
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. viii, 184 p. (2000).
Publisher’s description: Computer vision aims to detect and reconstruct features of surfaces from the images produced by cameras, in some way mimicring the way in which humans reconstruct features of the world around them by using their eyes. In this book the authors describe recent research in computer vision aimed at recovering the 3D shape of surfaces from image sequences of their ‘outlines. They provide all the necessary background in differential geometry (assuming knowledge of elementary algebra and calculus) and in the analysis of visual motion, emphasising intuitive visual understanding of the geometric techniques with computer-generated illustrations. They also give a thorough introduction to the mathematical techniques and the details of the implementations, and apply the methods to data from real images using the most current techniques.
MSC:
68-02 | Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to computer science |
53A05 | Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces |
65-02 | Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to numerical analysis |
65D17 | Computer-aided design (modeling of curves and surfaces) |
68U05 | Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) |
68U10 | Computing methodologies for image processing |