Computational vision in neural and machine systems / edited by Laurence R. Harris and Michael R.M. Jenkin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harris, Laurence, 1953-

Jenkin, Michael, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer vision.

Physical Description:

xvii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm + 1 CD-ROM (sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

System Details:

"The material on the CD-ROM can be accessed using a standard browser (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox). Videos on the CD-ROM are viewable with Quicktime, while viewing of the presentations on the CD-ROM will require a PowerPoint viewer."--P. 4.

Summary:

Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "video, colour imagery, and other digital media associated with the text. A complete copy of this volume in PDF format can also be found on the CD-ROM."--P. 4.

Contents:

1 Computational vision in neural and machine systems 1

1.2 The CD-ROM 4

I Dynamical systems 7

2 Exploring contrast-controlled adaptation processes in human vision (with help from Buffy the Vampire Slayer 9

2.1 Dynamics of luminance-controlled adaption processes (light adaptation) 10

2.2 Dynamics of contrast-controlled adaptation processes 14

2.3 Using Buffy and Regular Steady-State backgrounds 25

2.4 A new kind of complex channel with embedded contrast adaptation (the Buffy channel) 34

2.5 Where are we now? 42

3 Image comparison and motion detection by a contrario methods 49

3.2 Image comparison 51

3.3 Motion detection 57

4 Computer vision in the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission 71

4.2 Overview of rover hardware and mission operations 72

4.3 Stereo vision-based obstacle detection and avoidance 74

4.4 Visual odometry 77

4.5 Descent Image Motion Estimation System (DIMES) 79

5 Calibration and shape recovery from videos of dynamic scenes 85

5.2 Silhouette-based camera network calibration 86

5.3 Articulated shape recovery from video 94

6 Specular planar target surface recovery via coded target stereopsis 105

6.2 Exploiting properties of planar specular surfaces 106

6.3 Actively recovering 3D specular surface structure 107

7 Neural construction of objects from parts 115

7.1 Basis function representation of object parts 116

7.2 Synthesis of part signals into representations of multi-part configurations 120

II Attention, motion, and eye movements 127

8 Attention and action 129

8.2 Active vision and attention in robots 129

8.3 Attention and saccade generation in biological systems 131

8.4 Covert attention tracking and microsaccades 136

9 Cueing visual search in clutter 149

9.2 Detecting smooth motion paths in noise 152

9.3 Self-cueing in contour formation 157

9.4 Uncertainty and collinear facilitation at detection threshold 160

10 Transsaccadic memory of visual features 167

10.3 Results 172

11 Modeling what attracts human gaze over dynamic natural scenes 183

11.2 Quantifying surprise 184

11.3 Computational model 188

11.4 Experimental validation results 194

III Stereo 201

12 Global stereo in polynomial time 203

12.2 Dynamic programming stereo and its limits 205

12.3 The max-flow/min-cut formulation 209

12.4 An experiment 215

12.5 Conclusions and future work 217

13 Computational analysis of binocular half occlusions 221

13.2 Technical approach 224

13.3 Empirical evaluation 231

14 Speed versus quality - measuring and optimizing stereo for telepresence 241

14.1 Stereo reconstruction of the human form 241

14.2 Stereo, depth and surfaces 242

14.3 Quality and empirical evaluation 245

14.4 Temporal coherence 250

15 Binocular combination: measurements and a model 257

15.3 Experiment 1. Binocular combination as determined by the interocular contrast ratio, the interocular grating phase difference, and overall contrast level 268

15.4 Experiment 2. Stimulus duration 273

15.5 Experiment 3. Masking by spatial-frequency noise 279

15.6 Experiment 4. Masking sinewave gratings of different spatial frequencies 281

15.7 Experiment 5. Temporal frequency masking 284

15.8 Experiment 6. Orientation masking 287

15.9 Model 288.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780521862608

0521862604

OCLC:

71808148