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The aim of this book is to acquaint engineers, scientists, and students with the basic concepts of image algebra and its use in the concise representation of computer vision algorithms. In order to achieve this goal we provide a brief survey of commonly used computer vision algorithms that we believe represents a core of knowledge that all computer vision practitioners should have. This survey is not meant to be an encyclopedic summary of computer vision techniques as it is impossible to do justice to the scope and depth of the rapidly expanding field of computer vision. The arrangement of the book is such that it can serve as a reference for computer vision algorithm developers in general as well as for algorithm developers using the image algebra C++ object library, ac++. The techniques and algorithms presented in a given chapter follow a progression of increasing abstractness. Each technique is introduced by way of a brief discussion of its purpose and methodology. Since the intent of this text is to train the practitioner in formulating his algorithms and ideas in the succinct mathematical language provided by image algebra, an effort has been made to provide the precise mathematical formulation of each methodology. Thus, we suspect that practicing, |
