Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence)

Contents: Introduction (J Shen et al.); 3D Articulated Object Understanding, Learning, and Recognition from 2D Images (P S P Wang); On Geometric and Orthogonal Moments (J Shen et al.); Multispectral Image Processing: The Nature Factor (W R Watkins); Detection of Sea Surface Small Targets in Infrared Images Based on Multilevel Filter and Minimum Risk Bayes Test (Y-S Moon et al.); Minimum Description Length Method for Facet Matching (S Maybank & R Fraile); An Integrated Vision System for ALV Navigation (X Ye et al.); Fuzzy Bayesian Networks OCo A General Formalism for Representation, Inference and Learning with Hybrid Bayesian Networks (H Pan & L Liu); Extraction of Bibliography Information Based on Image of Book Cover (H Yang et al.); Radar Target Recognition Based on Parameterized High Resolution Range Profiles (X Liao & Z Bao). Readership: Computer scientists and electrical engineers." CONTENTS 6 Introduction 7 3D Articulated Object Understanding Learning and Recognition from 2D Images 11 1. INTRODUCTION 11 2. ANALYSIS METHODOLOGIES AND EXPERIMENTS 12 3. DISCUSSIONS CONCLUSION AND FUTURE RESEARCH 17 REFERENCES 20 On Geometric and Orthogonal Moments 23 1. INTRODUCTION 23 2. GEOMETRIC LEGENDRE AND HERMITE MOMENTS AND THEIR CALCULATION 24 3. COMPARISON OF SPATIAL BEHAVIOR OF GEOMETRIC LEGENDRE AND HERMITE MOMENTS 27 4. BEHAVIOR OF GEOMETRIC HERMITE AND LEGENDRE MOMENTS IN FREQUENCY DOMAIN 30 5. GAUSSIAN-HERMITE MOMENTS AND ORTHOGONALITY EQUIVALENCE THEOREM 34 6. CONCLUDING REMARKS 39 REFERENCES 40 Multispectral Image Processing: The Nature Factor 43 1. INTRODUCTION 43 2. MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE PROCESSING 44 3. IMAGE PROCESSING TOOLS 45 4. THE NATURE FACTOR 46 5. DEPTH VERSUS MOTION CUES 48 6. NAVIGATION 51 7. CONCLUSIONS 52 REFERENCES 53 Detection of Sea Surface Small Targets in Infrared Images Based on Multilevel Filter and Minimum Risk Bayes Test 55 1. INTRODUCTION 55 2. ANALYSIS OF TARGET AND BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS AND MODELING 56 3. MULTILEVEL FILTER FOR TARGET ENHANCEMENT 59 4. OPTIMUM THRESHOLD REAL-TIME ESTIMATE AND TARGET DETECTION 60 5. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND CONCLUSION 62 REFERENCES 65 Minimum Description Length Method for Facet Matching 67 1. INTRODUCTION 67 2. MDL FOR A FACET 69 3. MODEL FITTING 71 4. RESULTS 72 5. CONCLUSION 73 REFERENCES 74 An Integrated Vision System for ALV Navigation 77 1. INTRODUCTION 77 2. 2D VISION 77 3. 3D VISION 81 4. FUSING OF 2D AND 3D INFORMATION 83 5. HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE 85 6. CONCLUSION 87 REFERENCES 87 Fuzzy Bayesian Networks - A General Formalism for Representation Inference and Learning with Hybrid Bayesian Networks 89 1. INTRODUCTION 90 2. FUZZY BAYESIAN NETWORKS AS APPROXIMATE REPRESENTATION OF HYBRID BAYESIAN NETWORKS 92 3. A HYBRID JUNCTION TREE INFERENCE ALGORITHM FOR THE FORM-I FUZZY BAYESIAN NETWORKS 98 4. AN AUGMENTED HYBRID JUNCTION TREE INFERENCE ALGORITHM FOR THE FORM-II FUZZY BAYESIAN NETWORKS 101 5. SOME THOUGHTS ON LEARNING FUZZY BAYESIAN NETWORKS FROM DATA 105 6. CONCLUSION 108 REFERENCES 109 Extraction of Bibliography Information Based on Image of Book Cover 111 1. INTRODUCTION 111 2. PREPROCESSING 113 3. COLOR SPACE SEGMENTATION 114 4. TEXT REGION EXTRACTION AND CLASSIFICATION 117 5. EXPERIMENT AND RESULTS 121 6. CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION 123 REFERENCES 124 Radar Target Recognition Based on Parameterized High Resolution Range Profiles 127 1. INTRODUCTION 127 2. DATA MODEL AND EXTRACTION OF PHRRP'S 128 3. GENERALIZED-WEIGHTED-NORMALIZED CORRELATION (GWNC) 129 4. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS 130 5. CONCLUSIONS 133 REFERENCES 134 Contents:Introduction (J Shen et al.)3D Articulated Object Understanding, Learning, and Recognition from 2D Images (P S P Wang)On Geometric and Orthogonal Moments (J Shen et al.)Multispectral Image Processing: The Nature Factor (W R Watkins)Detection of Sea Surface Small Targets in Infrared Images Based on Multilevel Filter and Minimum Risk Bayes Test (Y-S Moon et al.)Minimum Description Length Method for Facet Matching (S Maybank & R Fraile)An Integrated Vision System for ALV Navigation (X Ye et al.)Fuzzy Bayesian Networks — A General Formalism for Representation, Inference and Learning with Hybrid Bayesian Networks (H Pan & L Liu)Extraction of Bibliography Information Based on Image of Book Cover (H Yang et al.)Radar Target Recognition Based on Parameterized High Resolution Range Profiles (X Liao & Z Bao)Readership: Computer scientists and electrical engineers.Key Features:The first general introduction to the area since Stein's 1986 monographOffers a broad scope: discrete, continuous and process approximationsNew topics such as compound Poisson approximation and polynomial biasing are treated for the first time in book form

Contents:

• Introduction (J Shen et al.)
• 3D Articulated Object Understanding, Learning, and Recognition from 2D Images (P S P Wang)
• On Geometric and Orthogonal Moments (J Shen et al.)
• Multispectral Image Processing: The Nature Factor (W R Watkins)
• Detection of Sea Surface Small Targets in Infrared Images Based on Multilevel Filter and Minimum Risk Bayes Test (Y-S Moon et al.)
• Minimum Description Length Method for Facet Matching (S Maybank & R Fraile)
• An Integrated Vision System for ALV Navigation (X Ye et al.)
• Fuzzy Bayesian Networks — A General Formalism for Representation, Inference and Learning with Hybrid Bayesian Networks (H Pan & L Liu)
• Extraction of Bibliography Information Based on Image of Book Cover (H Yang et al.)
• Radar Target Recognition Based on Parameterized High Resolution Range Profiles (X Liao & Z Bao)

Readership: Computer scientists and electrical engineers.
Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 J. Shen, P. S. P. Wang & T. Zhang 3D Articulated Object Understanding, Learning, and Recognition from 2D Images 5 P. S. P. Wang On Geometric and Orthogonal Moments 17 J. Shen, W. Shen & D. Shen Multispectral Image Processing: The Nature Factor 37 W. R. Watkins Detection of Sea Surface Small Targets in Infrared Images Based on Multilevel Filter and Minimum Risk Bayes Test 49 Y.-S. Moon, T. Zhang, Z.-R. Zuo & Z. Zuo Minimum Description Length Method for Facet Matching 61 S. Maybank & R. Fraile An Integrated Vision System for ALV Navigation 71 X. Ye, J. Liu W. Gu Fuzzy Bayesian Networks - A General Formalism for Representation, Inference and Learning with Hybrid Bayesian Networks 83 H. Pan & L. Liu Extraction of Bibliography Information Based on Image of Book Cover 105 H. Yang, M. Kashimura, N. Onda & S. Ozawa Radar Target Recognition Based on Parametrized High Resolution Range Profiles 121 X. Liao & Z. Bao. Introduction / J. Shen, P. S. P. Wang & T. Zhang -- 3D articulated object understanding, learning, and recognition from 2D images / P. S. P. Wang -- On geometric and orthogonal moments / J. Shen, W. Shen & D. Shen -- Multispectral image processing: The nature factor / W. R. Watkins -- Detection of sea surface small targets in infrared images based on multilevel filter and minimum risk Bayes test / Y.-S. Moon ... [et al.] -- Minimum description length method for facet matching / S. Maybank & R. Fraile -- An integrated vision system for ALV navigation / X. Ye, J. Liu & W. Gu -- Fuzzy Bayesian networks - A general formalism for representation, inference and learning with hybrid Bayesian networks / H. Pan & L. Liu -- Extraction of bibliography information based on image of book cover / H. Yang ... [et al.] -- Radar target recognition based on parametrized high resolution range profiles / X. Liao & Z. Bao A study of multispectral image processing and pattern recognition. It covers: geometric and orthogonal moments; minimum description length method for facet matching; an integrated vision system for ALV navigation; fuzzy Bayesian networks; and more.