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Title: Computer Vision by Linda G. Shapiro, George C. Stockman, Linda G Shapiro, George Stockman ISBN: 0-13-030796-3 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 23 January, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $97.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Intro. Text I've Used
Comment: This text is excellent as the basis for an introduction to CV, it treats a wide variety of topics in a clear and accessible manner. I particularly appreciated the books coverage of topics which aren't traditionally considered to be CV topics (like classification and some material on probabilistic inference). Highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent introduction guide
Comment: The book presents a nice complement to Image Processing, Analysis and Machine Vision (Image Processing, Analysis, and Machine Vision, 2nd ed., M. Sonka, V. Hlavac, and R. Boyle, 1998, IPAMV). As the difference in names implies, Computer Vision is not appropriate as an image processing textbook. It contains sufficient information on image processing to implement computer vision algorithms, but the focus of the book is on image analysis and high-level vision. The result is that the combination of IPAMV and Computer Vision cover the spectrum from intensive image processing and manipulation to high level analysis, object recognition and content-based image retrieval.
Computer Vision contains sixteen chapters that fall into roughly four categories: overview, 2-D CV topics, 3D CV topics, and special CV topics. Since it was written with the intent of reaching a broader audience than IPAMV, this book is appropriate as a primary text or reference for a wider variety of courses. For example, it would be appropriate for courses ranging from an introduction to imaging for non-scientists to a sophomore-junior elective to a first-year graduate seminar.
The overview chapters (chapters 1-4) include a summary of problems in CV, imaging and image representations, simple binary image analysis and a survey of pattern recognition concepts. The 2-D processing topics (chapters 3, 5-7, and 11) include thresholding and binary image analysis, filtering and enhancement, edge detection, Fourier Transforms, color, texture, segmentation, and 2-D matching and pose calculation. The 3-D computer vision topics (chapters 9-10, and 12-14) include motion detection and analysis, range image analysis, stereo, calibration, intrinsic image analysis and line labeling, shape from X, and camera models. The special topics (chapters 6-8, 15-16) include color and shading, texture, content-based retrieval, virtual reality, and a set of case studies of CV systems. Different combinations of these are appropriate for different types of courses.
In comparison with other texts, the coverage of color and shading in Computer Vision is the best available without consulting a color reference such as Fairchild's Color Appearance Models (described below). However, it still does not contain adequate coverage of physical models of reflection or color appearance. The texture chapter is comparable to Sonka et. al., and the CBIR and VR chapters are unique. It is these latter two areas that give Computer Vision a nice high-level flavor and provides a reference for these growing areas of CV.
Like IPAMV, Computer Vision contains a large number of example images, diagrams, and algorithms. The writing is clear and the mathematics--when it is necessary to present it--is complete and accessible. Since the book is designed with multiple audiences in mind, the heavy mathematical sections are flagged and the book can be used effectively with or without them.
Of particular interest to CV practitioners and students dealing with issues of calibration, chapter 13 contains a nice description of Roger Tsai's camera calibration algorithm, complete with an example. Note that Trucco and Verri (see below) also cover Tsai's calibration algorithm.
Overall, the choice between Computer Vision and IPAMV should be based on personal preference, the focus of your course, and the background of your students. IPAMV will be more accessible to engineers and contains more in-depth coverage of image processing techniques. Computer Vision is more accessible to computer scientists and covers a number of higher-level aspects of CV that are either not covered or briefly covered in IPAMV. In a number of areas--texture, stereo, motion, calibration, and segmentation--the two books are quite similar and the differences are mainly in style and emphasis.
Rating: 1
Summary: Horrible !!!
Comment: This is the most horrible book on Comp. Graphics (nothing to do with Comp. Vision). The author talks in an ineffective casual manner and you never get to learn anything. Every small topic is skimmed over and there is no detailed study about anything. The book is full of typos and mistakes. Avoid this book at all costs.
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Title: Image Processing: Analysis and Machine Vision by Milan Sonka, Vaclav Hlavac, Roger Boyle ISBN: 053495393X Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: 30 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $124.95 |
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Title: Digital Image Processing (2nd Edition) by Rafael C. Gonzalez, Richard E. Woods ISBN: 0201180758 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $117.00 |
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Title: Algorithms for Image Processing and Computer Vision by J. R. Parker ISBN: 0471140562 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 08 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $80.00 |
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Title: Computer Vision: A Modern Approach by David A. Forsyth, Jean Ponce ISBN: 0130851981 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 14 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $93.00 |
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Title: Machine Vision by Ramesh Jain, Rangachar Kasturi, Brian G. Schunck ISBN: 0070320187 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $151.95 |
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