Visual Motion of Curves and Surfaces

Citation

(2000), "Visual Motion of Curves and Surfaces", Sensor Review, Vol. 20 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/sr.2000.08720cae.002

Visual Motion of Curves and Surfaces

Visual Motion of Curves and Surfaces

R. Cipollo and P. GiblinCambridge University Press2000184 pp.ISBN 0-521-63251-X£30.00 Hard cover

Keywords: Vision, Machine vision

This book presents techniques in computer vision which aim at recovering the three-dimensional shape of surfaces from image sequences produced by cameras. Visual Motion of Curves and Surfaces, comprises six chapters.

After an introductory chapter, chapters 2, 3 and 4 address differential geometry of curves and surfaces, views of curves and surfaces, and dynamic analysis of apparent contours, respectively. These describe the necessary mathematical concepts and techniques required for the study of surfaces and contours.

Chapters 5 and 6 discuss the reconstruction of surfaces from profiles and the recovery of viewer motion from profiles. In these two chapters the theory is implemented on real image sequences.

Although this book is comparatively short (184 pp.), it does give a detailed discussion of the subject. At first glance the quantity of mathematics present in the text may be off-putting to some readers, but as long as you are armed with a basic understanding of calculus and algebra, then the mathematical concepts can be easily understood.

This book is suitable for students, researchers and professionals who are studying or working with vision systems.