books

A new book, Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications will be released soon. (It can be pre-ordered.) The author, Dr. Richard Szeliski (Mircrosoft Research), provides details on a variety of techniques to analyze and interpret images. There is a repository for drafts of his book, which is available for personal use. According to the site (http://szeliski.org/Book/), the book is based on computer vision courses he taught at University of Washington.


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The world’s largest published book, Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom, by Michael Hawley of MIT, measures more than 5 x 7 feet and weighs 133 pounds. The book consists of life-size portraits of people and panoramas of mountainous regions of the Himalaya. According to the publisher, the production of the book stretched "image processing systems to their limits."

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Computer Vision Central presents an exclusive interview with Dr. Ahmed Nabil Belbachir, editor of the book Smart Cameras. Read the interview here.

A new book on Advanced Tracking Systems: Computational Approaches (Augmented Vision and Reality) will be released soon. (It can be pre-ordered.) The editors, Riad Hammoud, Fatih Porikli, and Larry Davis, provide an in-depth coverage of localization, tracking, recognition, behavior analysis and classification of events.

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Computer Vision Central presents an exclusive interview with Dr. Branislav Kisačanin, one of the editors of the book Embedded Computer Vision. Read the interview here.

A new book exploring the application of methods from information theory to computer vision problems has been published by Springer. Information Theory in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition by Francisco Escolano, Pablo Suau, and Boyán Bonev has chapters on Interest Points, Edges and Contour Grouping; Contour and Region Based Image Segmentation; Registration, Matching, and Recognition; Image and Pattern Clustering; Feature Selection and Transformation; and Classifier Design.

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A new book on 3D Computer Vision will be released soon. (It can be pre-ordered.) The author, Dr. Christian Wöhler, provides an introduction and describes recent contributions to the field of three-dimensional computer vision. Application scenarios are also included.

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A new book on Smart Cameras will be released soon. (It can be pre-ordered.) The author, Dr. Ahmed Nabil Belbachir, provides an in-depth coverage of smart camera development that includes a 50-year chronology of the technology.

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Visual Motion of Curves and Surfaces is now available in paperback. The authors, Roberto Cipolla and Peter Giblin, describe how to recover surface shapes from an image sequence of outlines.

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A free ebook on computational photography, providing a review of the latest advances in the field, is now available. The report is authored by Ramesh Raskar, Jack Tumblin, Ankit Mohan, Amit Agrawal, and Yuanzen Li (MERL and Northwestern University). The intended audiences range from photographers to computer vision scientists.

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