Artificial vision is a rapidly growing discipline, aiming to build computational models of the visual capabilites in humans, as well as the machines that emulate them. Recent research work suggests that vision is a complex functionality, involving active sensing and attentional mechanisms, and is strictly related to cognitive processes like learning, reasoning and communicating. Visual communication in itself has a dramatic impact on contemporary culture, where human-computer interaction and human dialogue via computers play a more and more significant role.
ARTIFICIAL VISION is a book which will be essential reading for students and researchers in applied computer science, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and vision, who want to grasp the concepts and directions of this challenging field.
About the Author
Stefano Levialdi, Full Professor of Computer Science at Rome University, Italy, is the Director of the Pictorial Computing Laboratory.
Virginio Cantoni received the Laurea (cum laude) in Electronic Engineering in 1972 from Pavia University, Italy. He was a researcher of the Italian National Research Council from 1975 to 1983, and is presently a Full Professor of Computer Programming at Pavia University. From 1989 to 1995 Cantoni was Director of the Deparment of Computer Engineering, and from 1985 to 1990, he was the President of the Italian Group of the International Association for Pattern Recognition. He has been a Visiting Professor at Rutgers University, and has been Invited Professor at the Paris XI University. Levialdi is a Fellow of the IAPR and a senior member of IEEE.
Vito Roberto is Associated Professor at the Computer Science Faculty, University of Udine, Italy.
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