Computer Vision

This book is intended as an introduction to computer vision for a broad audience. It provides necessary theory and examples for students and practicioners who will work in fields where significant information must be extracted automatically from images. The book should be a useful resource book for professionals, a text for both undergraduate and beginning graduate courses, and a resource for enrichment of college or even high school projects. Our goals were to provide a basic set of fundamental concepts and algorithms and also discuss some of the exciting evolving application areas. This book is unique in that it contains chapters on image databases (Ch 8) and on virtual and augmented reality (Ch 15), two exciting evolving application areas. A final chapter (Ch 16) gives a complete view of real world systems that use computer vision.