This book is aimed at senior undergraduates and graduate students in Engineering, Science, Mathematics, and Computing. It expects familiarity with calculus, probability theory, and...
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This paper describes a computational method for estimating the body reflectance function of color surfaces. The experimental apparatus consists of a vision system having seven spe...
Andrea Abrardo, Luciano Alparone, Vito Cappellini,...
Gesture recognition is a difficult task in computer vision due to the numerous degrees of freedom of a human hand. Fortunately, human gesture covers only a small part of the theor...
Axel Saalbach, Gunther Heidemann, Holger Bekel, In...
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