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A new book, Alien Vision: Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum with Imaging Technology (SPIE Press Monograph Vol. PM104) is now available for purchase. The author, Dr. Austin Richards, provides a rich gallery of images beyond the human visual spectrum. An explanation of the light spectrum and advanced imaging technology at different wavelengths is provided. More information is available from the book website.


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A new book, Computer Vision: From Surfaces to 3D Objects will be released soon. (It can be pre-ordered.) The editor, Christopher W. Tyler, is the director of the Brain Imaging Center at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute. The book provides details on the computational approach to object understanding from shape information.


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Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, who developed and popularized the science and applications of fractal geometry, died this week. A long-time researcher at IBM's Watson Lab, he popularized fractals in a 1982 book The Fractal Geometry of Nature. In the early 1990's fractals were explored by computer vision researchers as a representation of multiscale natural textures, although they were soon supplanted by general multiscale models of greater representational power. Measurement of fractal dimension continues to be used in scientific and engineering image analysis, for example, in materials science.


Although no longer in print, The Fractal Geometry of Natureis available from Amazon for the Kindle.

A new book, Pattern Theory: The Stochastic Analysis of Real-World Signals by David Mumford and Agnes Desolneux, is now available. According to the book, "The underlying idea is to find classes of stochastic models that can capture all the patterns we see in nature, so that random samples from these models have the same 'look and feel' as the samples from the world itself." Applications to computer vision include analysis of natural scenes, face modeling, texture segmentation, and character recognition. Non-vision applications include music and text.

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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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