From Gestalt Theory to Image Analysis

Download or read book From Gestalt Theory to Image Analysis written by Agnès Desolneux and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a new theory in Computer Vision yielding elementary techniques to analyze digital images. These techniques are a mathematical formalization of the Gestalt theory. From the mathematical viewpoint the closest field to it is stochastic geometry, involving basic probability and statistics, in the context of image analysis. The book is mathematically self-contained, needing only basic understanding of probability and calculus. The text includes more than 130 illustrations, and numerous examples based on specific images on which the theory is tested. Detailed exercises at the end of each chapter help the reader develop a firm understanding of the concepts imparted.