Research Catalog

Title

Line drawing interpretation / Martin Cooper.

Author

Cooper, Martin, 1959-

Publication

London : Springer, ©2008.

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Details

Description

ix, 255 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"The computer interpretation of line drawings is a classic problem in artificial intelligence and has inspired the development of some fundamental Al tools, including constraint propagation, probabilistic relaxation, tractable constraints, and (most recently) local simplification of optimisation problems. Based on the author's considerable research experience, this book looks at line drawing interpretation and constraint satisfaction, covering several landmark results in the field. It contains state-of-the-art reviews of work in both drawing interpretation and discrete optimisation, and is not just restricted to drawings of polyhedral objects, but also covers complex curved objects. Its novel approach to drawing interpretation combines new constraints with recent advances in soft constraint programming." "The book will become a standard reference in the field with its coverage of many theoretical results with formal proofs, particularly concerning necessary-and-sufficient conditions for readability, simplification operations for combinatorial problems and tractability of drawing interpretation. Martin Cooper makes this fascinating topic accessible not only to computer scientists, but also to mathematicians, psychologists and cognitive scientists - indeed to anyone intrigued by optical illusions and impossible or ambiguous figures."--Jacket.

Subject

• Optical pattern recognition
• Computer graphics
• Projection
• Engineering drawings
• Projection art
• Computer Graphics
• computer graphics
• projections (visual works)
• technical drawings
• projection (perspective and shading technique)
• line drawings (drawings)
• Projection
• Engineering drawings
• Computer graphics
• Optical pattern recognition

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Impossible pictures -- 3. Labeling line drawings of polyhedra -- 4. Discrete inflation using cubic corners -- 5. A rich labeling scheme for curved objects -- 6. Depth recovery through linear algebra -- 7. Wireframe projections -- 8. Simplification of combinatorial problems -- 9. Tractability of drawing interpretation -- 10. 3D reconstruction of ambiguous pictures.

ISBN

• 9781848002289
• 1848002289
• 9781848002296
• 1848002297

LCCN

• 2008928522
• 9781848002289

OCLC

• ocn225446839
• 225446839
• SCSB-9199442

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library