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Three-Dimensional Computer Vision

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  • © 1987

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Authors:
  1. Yoshiaki Shirai

    1. Computer Vision Section, Computer Science Division, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Niiharigun Ibaraki, 305, Japan

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Part of the book series: Symbolic Computation (SYMBOLIC)

Part of the book sub series: Computer Graphics - Systems and Applications (1276)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Introduction

    • Yoshiaki Shirai
    Pages 1-10

  3. Image Input

    • Yoshiaki Shirai
    Pages 11-31

  4. Image Feature Extraction

    • Yoshiaki Shirai
    Pages 32-68

  5. Image Feature Description

    • Yoshiaki Shirai
    Pages 69-89

  6. Interpretation of Line Drawings

    • Yoshiaki Shirai
    Pages 90-109

  7. Realizability of Line Drawings

    • Yoshiaki Shirai
    Pages 110-121

  8. Stereo Vision

    • Yoshiaki Shirai
    Pages 122-140

  9. Shape from Monocular Images

    • Yoshiaki Shirai
    Pages 141-163

  10. Range Data Processing

    • Yoshiaki Shirai
    Pages 164-188

  11. Three-Dimensional Description and Representation

    • Yoshiaki Shirai
    Pages 189-208

  12. Knowledge Representation and Use

    • Yoshiaki Shirai
    Pages 209-220

  13. Image Analysis Using Knowledge About Scenes

    • Yoshiaki Shirai
    Pages 221-249

  14. Image Understanding Using Two-Dimensional Models

    • Yoshiaki Shirai
    Pages 250-262

  15. Image Understanding Using Three-Dimensional Models

    • Yoshiaki Shirai
    Pages 263-291

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 293-297
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The purpose of computer vision is to make computers capable of understanding environments from visual information. Computer vision has been an interesting theme in the field of artificial intelligence. It involves a variety of intelligent information processing: both pattern processing for extraction of meaningful symbols from visual information and symbol processing for determining what the symbols represent. The term "3D computer vision" is used if visual information has to be interpreted as three-dimensional scenes. 3D computer vision is more challenging because objects are seen from limited directions and some objects are occluded by others. In 1980, the author wrote a book "Computer Vision" in Japanese to introduce an interesting new approach to visual information processing developed so far. Since then computer vision has made remarkable progress: various rangefinders have become available, new methods have been developed to obtain 3D informa­ tion, knowledge representation frameworks have been proposed, geometric models which were developed in CAD/CAM have been used for computer vision, and so on. The progress in computer vision technology has made it possible to understand more complex 3 D scenes. There is an increasing demand for 3D computer vision. In factories, for example, automatic assembly and inspection can be realized with fewer con­ straints than conventional ones which employ two-dimensional computer vision.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Computer Vision Section, Computer Science Division, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Niiharigun Ibaraki, 305, Japan

    Yoshiaki Shirai

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