This book is concerned with the aspects of real-time, parallel computing which are specific to the analysis of digitized images including both the symbolic and semantic data derived from such images. The subjects covered encompass processing, storing, and transmitting images and image data. A variety of techniques and algorithms for the analysis and manipulation of images are explored both theoretically and in terms of implementation in hardware and software. The book is organized into four topic areas: (1) theo retical development, (2) languages for image processing, (3) new computer techniques, and (4) implementation in special purpose real-time digital systems. Computer utilization, methodology, and design for image analy sis presents special and unusual problems. One author (Nagao)* points out that, "Human perception of a scene is very complex. It has not been made clear how perception functions, what one sees in a picture, and how one understands the whole picture. It is almost certain that one carries out a very quick trial-and-error process, starting from the detection of gross prominent features and then analyzing details, using one's knowledge of the world. " Another author (Duff) makes the observation that, "It is therefore more difficult to write computer programs which deal with images than those which deal with numbers, human thinking about arithmetic being a largely conscious activity.
Auflage
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Research
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Maße
Höhe: 244 mm
Breite: 170 mm
Dicke: 23 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-4684-3895-6 (9781468438956)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4684-3893-2
Schweitzer Klassifikation
General Theory.- The Elements of Digital Picture Processing.- Some Neighborhood Operators.- Region Relaxation in a Parallel Hierarchical Architecture.- Generalized Cellular Automata.- Theoretical Considerations on a Family of Distance Transformations and Their Applications.- Languages.- Image Data Modeling and Language for Parallel Processing.- A Study on Parallel Parsing of Tree Languages and Its Application to Syntactic Pattern Recognition.- PIXAL: A High Level Language for Image Processing.- Languages for Parallel Processing of Images.- Techniques.- Real Time Region Analysis for Image Data.- Hybrid Image Processing Using a Simple Optical Technique.- Focus of Attention in the Analysis of Complex Pictures Such as Aerial Photographs.- The Virtual Plane Concept in Image Processing.- Hardware and Systems.- A Multi-Microprocessor Architecture for Associative Processing of Image Data.- An Interactive Image Processing and Analysis System.- Interpolation to Reduce Difficulty in D/A Conversion.- A Computing System Organization for Image Data Retrieval.- A Compound Computer System for Image Data Processing.- Interactive Techniques for Producing and Encoding Color Graphics.- Image Processing Unit Hardware Implementation.- Man-Machine Interactive Processing for Extracting Meteorological Information from GMS Images.- An Array Processor for Image Processing.- Real-Time Shading Corrector for a Television Camera Using a Microprocessor.- Parallel Architectures for Image Processing.- Color Display for Image Processing with Multiple Functions.- Image Processing Oriented Multiprocessor System with a Multipurpose Video Processor.- Author Index.
