Biologically Inspired Computer Vision: Fundamentals and Applications (Hardcover)

As the state-of-the-art imaging technologies became more and more advanced, yielding scientific data at unprecedented detail and volume, the need to process and interpret all the data has made image processing and computer vision increasingly important. Sources of data that have to be routinely dealt with today's applications include video transmission, wireless communication, automatic fingerprint processing, massive databanks, non-weary and accurate automatic airport screening, robust night vision, just to name a few. Multidisciplinary inputs from other disciplines such as physics, computational neuroscience, cognitive science, mathematics, and biology will have a fundamental impact in the progress of imaging and vision sciences. One of the advantages of the study of biological organisms is to devise very different type of computational paradigms by implementing a neural network with a high degree of local connectivity.
This is a comprehensive and rigorous reference in the area of biologically motivated vision sensors. The study of biologically visual systems can be considered as a two way avenue. On the one hand, biological organisms can provide a source of inspiration for new computational efficient and robust vision models and on the other hand machine vision approaches can provide new insights for understanding biological visual systems. Along the different chapters, this book covers a wide range of topics from fundamental to more specialized topics, including visual analysis based on a computational level, hardware implementation, and the design of new more advanced vision sensors. The last two sections of the book provide an overview of a few representative applications and current state of the art of the research in this area. This makes it a valuable book for graduate, Master, PhD students and also researchers in the field.

隨著最先進的影像技術越來越先進，以前所未有的細節和數量產生科學數據，處理和解釋所有數據的需求使得影像處理和計算機視覺變得越來越重要。如今應用領域中需要常規處理的數據來源包括視頻傳輸、無線通信、自動指紋處理、大型數據庫、精確的自動機場安檢、強大的夜視等等。來自物理學、計算神經科學、認知科學、數學和生物學等其他學科的多學科輸入將對影像和視覺科學的進展產生基本影響。研究生物有機體的優勢之一是通過實現具有高度局部連接性的神經網絡來設計非常不同類型的計算範例。

這是一本在生物啟發視覺感測器領域的全面而嚴謹的參考書。研究生物視覺系統可以被視為一條雙向道路。一方面，生物有機體可以為新的計算高效和強大的視覺模型提供靈感來源，另一方面，機器視覺方法可以為理解生物視覺系統提供新的見解。在不同的章節中，本書涵蓋了從基礎到更專業的主題，包括基於計算水平的視覺分析、硬件實現和設計新的更先進的視覺感測器。本書的最後兩節提供了一些代表性應用和該領域研究的最新進展概述。這使得它成為研究生、碩士、博士生以及該領域的研究人員的寶貴參考書。