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Record Nr.

UNISA996465475003316

Autore

Cipolla Roberto

Titolo

Active Visual Inference of Surface Shape [[electronic resource] /] / by Roberto Cipolla

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1996

ISBN

3-540-48522-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 1996.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 196 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 1016

Disciplina

006.4/2

Soggetti

Computer mathematics

Differential geometry

Computer simulation

Optical data processing

Artificial intelligence

Pattern recognition

Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis

Differential Geometry

Simulation and Modeling

Image Processing and Computer Vision

Artificial Intelligence

Pattern Recognition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Surface shape from the deformation of apparent contours -- Deformation of apparent contours — Implementation -- Qualitative shape from images of surface curves -- Orientation and time to contact from image divergence and deformation -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This monograph is devoted to the problem of inferring geometric information about arbitrarily curved surfaces from visual cues; this is a central problem in computer vision with immediate relevance for robot manipulation and navigation. The author develops computational theories and techniques relating visual information arising from viewer movements to the differential geometry of visible surfaces. The



theories developed have been implemented and tested using a real-time tracking system based on deformable contours. Applications of the techniques to geometric modelling, obstacle avoidance, navigation, and object manipulation are presented.