Pattern recognition Books

This book delves into the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) as game-changers in diagnosing and managing of neurodisorder conditions. It covers a wide array of methodologies, algorithms, and applications in...

This volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 7th EAI International Conference on 6GN for Future Wireless Networks, 6GN 2024, held in Chongqing, China, in October 19-20, 2024.The 18 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and...

The book explores the complete system perspective, underlying theories, modelling, and the applications of pattern recognition in Healthcare Recommender System. Considering the interest of researchers and academicians, editors here aim to present this...

Presents in-depth knowledge on the latest research in image processing and computer vision techniques, explaining the machine learning algorithms and models involved. The authors differentiate between the various algorithms available and how to choose...

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 4th Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology, ASCAT 2025, held in Ranchi, India, during March 6–8, 2025.The 16 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science, FCS 2024, and the 20th International Conference on Frontiers in Education, FECS 2024, held as part of the 2024 World Congress in Computer...

This book offers a comprehensive collection of the latest research presented at the 9th International XR-Metaverse Conference held in Busan, South Korea, in 2024. Its goal is to bridge the gap between academia and industry by advancing the state of the...

This edited volume explores several issues relating to parametric segmentation including robust operations, model selection criteria and automatic model selection, plus 2D and 3D scene segmentation. Emphasis is placed on robust...

Dialect Accent Features for Establishing Speaker Identity: A Case Study discusses the subject of forensic voice identification and speaker profiling. Specifically focusing on speaker profiling and using dialects of the Hindi...

This indispensable text introduces the foundations of three-dimensional computer vision and describes recent contributions to the field. Fully revised and updated, this much-anticipated new edition reviews a range of triangulation-based methods,...

This thoroughly revised and expanded new edition now includes a more detailed treatment of the EM algorithm, a description of an efficient approximate Viterbi-training procedure, a theoretical derivation of the perplexity measure and coverage of...

The book covers the most essential and widely employed material in each area, particularly the material important for real-world applications. Our goal is not to cover every latest progress in the fields, nor to discuss every detail of various techniques...

This practically-focused text presents a hands-on guide to making biometric technology work in real-life scenarios. Extensively revised and updated, this new edition takes a fresh look at what it takes to integrate biometrics into wider applications. An...

Identity in Economics, and in Context.- Modern Technological and Traditional Social Identities.- Identity Theft.- Who Owns You?.- Defeating the Greatest Masquerade.- Secrecy, Privacy, Identity.- Security and Privacy as Market Failures.- Trusting Code and...

This book introduces the geometry of 3-D vision, that is, the reconstruction of 3-D models of objects from a collection of 2-D images. It details the classic theory of two view geometry and shows that a more proper tool for...

Beginning 3D Game Development with Unity 4 is perfect for those who would like to come to grips with programming Unity. You may be an artist who has learned 3D tools such as 3ds Max, Maya, or Cinema 4D, or you may come from 2D tools such as Photoshop and...

Desktop or DIY 3D printers are devices you can either buy preassembled as a kit, or build from a collection of parts to design and print physical objects including replacement household parts, custom toys, and even art, science, or engineering projects...

Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK gets you up and running developing Kinect applications for your PC using Microsoft tools and the official SDK. You will have a working Kinect program by the end of the first chapter! The...

Meet the Kinect introduces the exciting world of volumetric computing using the Microsoft Kinect. You'll learn to write scripts and software enabling the use of the Kinect as an input device. Interact directly with your computer through physical motion...

Hacking the Kinect is the technogeek’s guide to developing software and creating projects involving the groundbreaking volumetric sensor known as the Microsoft Kinect. Microsoft’s release of the Kinect in the fall of 2010 startled the...

Printing in Plastic: Build Your Own 3D Printer is your gateway into the exciting world of personal fabrication. The "printer" that you'll build from this book is a personal fabricator capable of creating small parts and other objects from drops of molten...

GIMP for Absolute Beginners gives us an easy way to use the power of GIMP, and enjoy digital photography and graphics without worrying about application features.GIMP is a powerful open source graphics and digital imaging application with almost all the...

From the foreword by Thomas Huang: "During the past decade, researchers in computer vision have found that probabilistic machine learning methods are extremely powerful. This book describes some of these methods. In addition to...

and Preliminaries on Biometrics and Forensics Systems.- Data Representation and Analysis.- Improving Face Recognition Using Directional Faces.- Recent Advances in Iris Recognition: A Multiscale Approach.- Spread Transform Watermarking Using Complex...

Spatial trajectories have been bringing the unprecedented wealth to a variety of research communities. A spatial trajectory records the paths of a variety of moving objects, such as people who log their travel routes with GPS...

This book covers the statistical models and methods that are used to understand human genetics, following the historical and recent developments of human genetics. Starting with Mendel’s first experiments to genome-wide association studies, the...

Low Level Approach for Image and Video Understanding.- GOP Structure Conversion in Transcoding MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC.- Simple Low Level Features for Image Analysis.- Fast and robust Face Detection.- Automatic 3D Facial Fitting for Tracking in Video...

Video Structure and Terminology.- Multimodal Video Characterization.- Video Summarization.- Visualization Techniques.- Evaluation.- Conclusions.

Automated Video Surveillance.- Identifying Regions of Interest in Image Sequences.- Object Detection and Categorization.- Object Tracking in a Single Camera.- Tracking in Multiple Cameras with Disjoint Views.- Knight Surveillance System Deployment.-...

Recent Trends in Computational and Robot Vision.- Extracting Planar Kinematic Models Using Interactive Perception.- People Detection Using Multiple Sensors on a Mobile Robot.- Perceiving Objects and Movements to Generate Actions on a Humanoid Robot.-...

An Introduction to Intrusion Detection.- The Base-Rate Fallacy and the Difficulty of Intrusion Detection.- Visualizing Intrusions: Watching the Webserver.- Combining a Bayesian Classifier with Visualization: Understanding the IDS.- Visualizing the Inner...

Biometric user authentication techniques evoke an enormous interest by science, industry and society. Scientists and developers constantly pursue technology for automated determination or confirmation of the identity of...

Abstract Biological vision is a rather fascinating domain of research. Scientists of various origins like biology, medicine, neurophysiology, engineering, math­ ematics, etc. aim to understand the processes leading to visual...

Fundamentals, Preliminaries and Reviews.- Fundamentals.- Preliminaries and Reviews.- Face Recognition Under Variations.- Symmetric Shape from Shading.- Generalized Photometric Stereo.- Illuminating Light Field.- Facial Aging.- Face Recognition Via Kernel...

Human Identification Based on Gait is the first book to address gait as a biometric. Biometrics is now in a unique position where it affects most people's lives. This is especially true of "gait", which is one of the most...

Biometrics: When Identity Matters.- Information Fusion in Biometrics.- Levels of Fusion in Biometrics.- Score Level Fusion.- Fusion Incorporating Ancillary Information.

Here is, for the first time, a book that clearly explains and applies new level set methods to problems and applications in computer vision, graphics, and imaging. It is an essential compilation of survey chapters from the...

Starting with fingerprints more than a hundred years ago, there has been ongoing research in biometrics. Within the last forty years face and speaker recognition have emerged as research topics. However, as recently as a decade...

Presents a unique foundation for producing almost every quantitative graphic found in scientific journals, newspapers, statistical packages, and data visualization systemsThe new edition features six new chapters and has undergone substantial revision...

This book is a valuable resource for professionals, researchers, and students who want to expand their knowledge of advanced computer vision techniques using PyTorch.

This volume focuses on relevant activities in three main subject areas: Healthcare and Emotion, Mental Health, and Nurse Care Records.

This book presents a comprehensive treatment of visual analysis of behaviour from computational-modelling and algorithm-design perspectives. Topics: covers learning-group activity models, unsupervised behaviour profiling,...

This book presents theories and techniques for perception of textures by computer. Texture is a homogeneous visual pattern that we perceive in surfaces of objects such as textiles, tree barks or stones. Texture analysis is one...

Computer vision is one of the most complex and computationally intensive problem. Like any other computationally intensive problems, parallel pro­ cessing has been suggested as an approach to solving the problems in com­ puter...