Thursday 8 March 2018

Computer and Machine Vision: Theory, Algorithms, Practicalities by E.R. DAVIES

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Although computer vision is such a relatively young field of study, it has matured immensely over the last 25 years or so—from well-constrained, targeted applications to systems that learn automatically from examples. Such progress over these 25 years has been spurred not least by mind-boggling advances in vision and computational hardware, making possible simple tasks that could take minutes on small images, now integrated as part of real-time systems that do far more in a fraction of a second on much larger images in a video stream. This all means that the focus of research has been in a perpetual state of change, marked by near-exponential advances and achievements, and witnessed by the quality, and often quantity, of outstanding contributions to the field published in key conferences and journals such as ICCV and PAMI. These advances are most clearly reflected by the growing importance of the application areas in which the novel and real-time developments in computer vision have been applied to or developed for. Twenty-five years ago, industrial quality inspection and simple military applications ruled the waves, but the emphasis has since spread its wings, some slowly and some like wildfire, to many more areas, for example, from medical imaging and analysis to surveillance and, inevitably, complex military and space applications.



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