Selective Visual Attention: Computational Models and Applications
Perihal e-buku ini
This book is geared for graduates students and researchers in neural networks, image processing, machine learning, computer vision, and other areas of biologically inspired model building and applications. The book can also be used by practicing engineers looking for techniques involving the application of image coding, video processing, machine vision and brain-like robots to real-world systems. Other students and researchers with interdisciplinary interests will also find this book appealing.
- Provides a key knowledge boost to developers of image processing applications
- Is unique in emphasizing the practical utility of attention mechanisms
- Includes a number of real-world examples that readers can implement in their own work:
- robot navigation and object selection
- image and video quality assessment
- image and video coding
- Provides codes for users to apply in practical attentional models and mechanisms
Perihal pengarang
Liming Zhang is a Professor of Electronics at Fudan University, where she leads the Image and Intelligence Laboratory. Since the 1980s she has been engaged in biological modeling and its application to engineering, such as artificial neural network models, visual models and brain-like robot models, and has published three books in Chinese on artificial neural networks, image coding and intelligent image processing, as well as over 120 pages in the area. Since 2003 she has been studying problems in modeling visual attention and applying it in computer vision, robot vision, object tracking, remote sensing and image quality assessment. She has served as a Senior Visiting Scholar at the University of Notre Dame and Technical University of Munich.
Weisi Lin is an Associate Professor in the division of computer communications at Nanyang Technological University's School of Computer Engineering. He also serves as Lab Head, Visual Processing, and Acting Department Manager, Media Processing, in Institute for Infocomm Research. Lin has also participated in research at Shantou University (China), Bath University (UK), National University of Singapore, Institute of Microelectronics (Singapore), Centre for Signal Processing (Singapore). His research interests include image processing, perceptual modeling, video compression, multimedia communication and computer vision. He holds 10 patents, has written 4 book chapters, and has published over 130 refereed papers in international journals and conferences. He is a Chartered Engineer, and a Fellow of IET. Lin graduated from Zhongshan University, China with B.Sc in Electronics and M.Sc in Digital Signal Processing, and from King’s College, London University, UK with Ph.D in Computer Vision.
