Dictionary of Computer Vision and Image Processing

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Dictionary of Computer Vision and Image Processing

ISBN-13 9780470015261 ISBN-10 0470015268

Contents

Preface

References

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  1D
  2D
  2D coordinate system
  2D Fourier transform
  2D image
  2D input device
  2D point
  2D point feature
  2D pose estimation
  2D projection
  2.5D image
  2.5D sketch
  3D
  3D coordinate system
  3D data
  3D data acquisition
  3D image
  3D model
  3D moments
  3D object
  3D point
  3D point feature
  3D pose estimation
  3D reconstruction
  3D skeleton
  3D structure recovery
  3D texture
  3D vision
  4 connectedness
  8 connectedness

A

  A*
  a posteriori probability
  a priori probability
  aberration
  absolute conic
  absolute coordinates
  absolute orientation
  absolute point
  absolute quadric
  absorption
  accumulation method
  accumulative difference
  accuracy
  acoustic sonar
  ACRONYM
  active appearance model
  active blob
  active contour models
  active contour tracking
  active illumination
  active learning
  active net
  active sensing
  active shape model
  active stereo
  active surface
  active triangulation
  active vision
  active volume
  activity analysis
  acuity
  adaptive
  adaptive coding
  adaptive contrast enhancement
  adaptive edge detection
  adaptive filtering
  adaptive histogram equalization
  adaptive Hough transform
  adaptive meshing
  adaptive pyramid
  adaptive reconstruction
  adaptive smoothing
  adaptive thresholding
  adaptive triangulation
  adaptive visual servoing
  additive color
  additive noise
  adjacent
  adjacency
  affine
  affine arc length
  affine camera
  affine curvature
  affine flow
  affine fundamental matrix
  affine invariant
  affine length
  affine moment
  affine quadrifocal tensor
  affine reconstruction
  affine stereo
  affine transformation
  affine trifocal tensor
  affinely invariant region
  agglomerative clustering
  albedo
  algebraic distance
  aliasing
  alignment
  ALVINN
  ambient light
  AMBLER
  amplifier noise
  analytic curve finding
  anamorphic lens
  anatomical map
  AND operator
  angiography
  angularity ratio
  anisotropic filtering
  anomalous behavior detection
  antimode
  aperture
  aperture control
  aperture problem
  apparent contour
  apparent motion
  appearance
  appearance based recognition
  appearance based tracking
  appearance change
  appearance enhancement transform
  appearance flow
  appearance model
  appearance prediction
  appearance singularity
  arc length
  arc of graph
  architectural model reconstruction
  area
  area based
  array processor
  arterial tree segmentation
  articulated object
  articulated object model
  articulated object segmentation
  articulated object tracking
  aspect graph
  aspect ratio
  aspects
  association graph
  astigmatism
  atlas based segmentation
  atlas registration
  ATR
  attention
  attributed graph
  augmented reality
  autocalibration
  autocorrelation
  autofocus
  automatic
  automatic target recognition (ATR)
  autonomous vehicle
  autoregressive model
  autostereogram
  average smoothing
  AVI
  axial representation
  axis of elongation
  axis of rotation
  axis-angle curve representation

B

  B-rep
  b-spline
  b-spline fitting
  b-spline snake
  back projection
  background
  background labeling
  background modeling
  background normalization
  backlighting
  bandpass filter
  back-propagation
  back-tracking
  bar
  bar detector
  bar-code reading
  barycentrum
  barrel distortion
  bas-relief ambiguity
  baseline
  basis function representation
  Bayes' rule
  Bayesian classifier
  Bayesian filtering
  Bayesian model
  Bayesian model learning
  Bayesian network
  BDRF
  beam splitter
  behavior analysis
  behavior learning
  Beltrami flow
  bending energy
  best next view
  Bhattacharyya distance
  xp2 x dx bicubic spline interpolation
  bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF)
  bilateral filtering
  bilateral smoothing
  bilinear surface interpolation
  aide memoire
  bilinearity
  bimodal histogram
  bin-picking
  binarization
  binary mathematical morphology
  binary moment
  binary noise reduction
  binary object recognition
  binary operation
  binary region skeleton
  binocular
  binocular stereo
  binocular tracking
  biometrics
  bipartite matching
  bit map
  bit-plane encoding
  bitangent
  blanking
  blending operator
  blob analysis
  blob extraction
  block coding
  blocks world
  blooming
  Blum's medial axis
  blur
  border detection
  border tracing
  boundary
  boundary description
  boundary detection
  boundary grouping
  boundary length
  boundary matching
  boundary property
  boundary representation
  boundary segmentation
  boundary-region fusion
  bounding box
  bottom-up
  BRDF
  break point detection
  breast scan analysis
  Brewster's angle
  brightness
  brightness adjustment
  Brodatz texture
  building detection
  bundle adjustment
  burn-in
  butterfly filter

C

  CAD
  calculus of variations
  calibration object
  camera
  camera calibration
  camera coordinates
  camera geometry
  camera model
  camera motion compensation
  camera motion estimation
  camera position estimation
  Canny edge detector
  canonical configuration
  cardiac image analysis
  Cartesian coordinates
  cartography
  cascaded Hough transform
  cascading Gaussians
  CAT
  categorization
  category
  CBIR
  CCD
  CCIR camera
  cell microscopic analysis
  cellular array
  center line
  center of mass
  center of projection
  center-surround operator
  central moments
  central projection
  centroid
  chain code
  chamfer matching
  chamfering
  change detection
  character recognition
  character verification
  characteristic view
  chess board distance metric
  chi-squared distribution
  chi-squared test
  chip sensor
  chord distribution
  chroma
  chromatic aberration
  chromaticity diagram
  chrominance
  chromosome analysis
  CID
  CIE chromaticity coordinates
  CIE L*A*B* model
  CIE L*U*V* model
  circle
  circle detection
  circle fitting
  circular convolution
  circularity
  city block distance
  classification
  classifier
  clipping
  clique
  close operator
  clustering
  clutter
  CMOS
  CMY
  coarse-to-fine processing
  coaxial illumination
  cognitive vision
  coherence detection
  coherent fiber optics
  coherent light
  coincidental alignment
  collimate
  collimated lighting
  collinearity
  collineation
  color
  color based database indexing
  color based image retrieval
  color clustering
  color constancy
  color co-occurrence matrix
  color correction
  color differential invariant
  color doppler
  color edge detection
  color efficiency
  color gamut
  color halftoning
  color histogram matching
  color image
  color image restoration
  color image segmentation
  color indexing
  color matching
  color mixture model
  color models
  color moment
  color normalization
  color quantization
  color re-mapping
  color representation system
  color spaces
  color temperature
  color texture
  colorimetry
  combinatorial explosion
  compactness
  compass edge detector
  composite filter
  composite video
  compression
  computational theory
  computational vision
  computer aided design
  computer vision
  computed axial tomography
  concave mirror
  concave residue
  concavity
  concavity tree
  concurrence matrix
  condensation tracking
  condenser lens
  conditional dilation
  conditional distribution
  conditional replenishment
  conformal mapping
  conic
  conic fitting
  conic invariant
  conical mirror
  conjugate direction
  conjugate gradient
  connected component labeling
  connectivity
  conservative smoothing
  constrained least squares
  constrained matching
  constrained optimization
  constraint satisfaction
  constructive solid geometry (CSG)
  content-based image retrieval
  context
  contextual image classification
  contextual method
  continuous convolution
  continuous Fourier transform
  continuous learning
  contour analysis
  contour following
  contour grouping
  contour length
  contour linking
  contour matching
  contour partitioning
  contour representation
  contour tracing
  contour tracking
  contours
  contrast enhancement
  contrast stretching
  control strategy
  convex hull
  convexity ratio
  convolution operator
  co-occurrence matrix
  cooperative algorithm
  coordinate system
  coordinate system transformation
  coplanarity
  coplanarity invariant
  core line
  corner feature detectors
  coronary angiography
  correlation
  correlation based optical flow estimation
  correlation based stereo
  correspondence constraint
  correspondence problem
  cosine diffuser
  cosine transform
  cost function
  covariance
  covariance propagation
  crack code
  crack edge
  crack following
  Crimmins smoothing operator
  critical motion
  cross correlation
  cross correlation matching
  cross ratio
  cross section function
  cross-validation
  crossing number
  CSG
  CT
  currency verification
  curse of dimensionality
  cursive script recognition
  curvature
  curvature primal sketch
  curvature scale space
  curvature sign patch classification
  curve
  curve binormal
  curve bitangent
  curveevolution
  curve fitting
  curve inflection
  curve invariant
  curve invariant point
  curve matching
  curve normal
  curve representation system
  curve saliency
  curve segmentation
  curve smoothing
  curve tangent vector
  cut detection
  cyclopean view
  cylinder extraction
  cylinder patch extraction
  cylindrical mosaic
  cylindrical surface region

D

  darkfield illumination
  data fusion
  data parallelism
  data reduction
  data structure
  DCT
  deblur
  decentering distortion (lens)
  decimation
  decision tree
  decoding
  decomposable filters
  deconvolution
  defocus
  defocus blur
  deformable model
  deformable shape
  deformable superquadric
  deformable template model
  deformation energy
  degradation
  degree of freedom
  Delaunay triangulation
  demon
  demosaicing
  Dempster-Shafer
  dense reconstruction
  dense stereo matching
  densitometry
  depth
  depth estimation
  depth from defocus
  depth from focus
  depth image
  depth map
  depth perception
  depth sensor
  derivative based search
  DFT
  diagram analysis
  dichroic filter
  dichromatic model
  difference image
  diffeomorphism
  difference-of-Gaussians operator
  differential geometry
  differential invariant
  differential pulse code modulation
  differentiation filtering
  diffraction
  diffraction grating
  diffuse illumination
  diffuse reflection
  diffusion smoothing
  digital camera
  digital elevation map
  i.e., the elevation). digital geometry
  digital image
  digital image processing
  digital signal processor
  digital subtraction angiography
  digital terrain map
  digital topology
  digital watermarking
  digitization
  dihedral edge
  dilate operator
  dimensionality
  direct least square fitting
  directed illumination
  directional derivative
  discontinuity detection
  discontinuity preserving regularization
  discontinuous event tracking
  discrete cosine transform (DCT)
  discrete Fourier transform (DFT)
  discrete relaxation
  discrimination function
  disparity
  disparity gradient
  disparity gradient limit
  disparity limit
  dispersion
  distance function
  distance map
  distance transform
  distortion coefficient
  distortion polynomial
  distortion suppression
  dithering
  divide and conquer
  divisive clustering
  DIVX
  document analysis
  document mosaicing
  document retrieval
  DoG
  Doppler
  downhill simplex
  DSP
  duality
  dynamic appearance model
  dynamic programming
  dynamic range
  dynamic scene
  dynamic stereo
  dynamic time warping

E

  early vision
  earth mover's distance
  eccentricity
  echocardiography
  edge
  edge based segmentation
  edge based stereo
  edge detection
  edge direction
  edge enhancement
  edge finding
  edge following
  edge gradient image
  edge grouping
  edge image
  edge linking
  edge matching
  edge motion
  edge orientation
  edge point
  edge preserving smoothing
  edge sharpening
  edge tracking
  edge type labeling
  EGI
  egomotion
  egomotion estimation
  eigenface
  eigenspace based recognition
  eigenspace representation
  eigenvalue
  eigenvector
  eigenvector projection
  electromagnetic spectrum
  ellipse fitting
  ellipsoid
  elliptic snake
  elongatedness
  EM
  empirical evaluation
  encoding
  endoscope
  energy minimization
  entropy
  epipolar constraint
  epipolar correspondence matching
  epipolar geometry
  epipolar line
  epipolar plane
  epipolar plane image (EPI)
  epipolar plane image analysis
  epipolar plane motion
  epipolar rectification
  epipolar transfer
  epipole
  epipole location
  equalization
  erode operator
  error propagation
  essential matrix
  Euclidean distance
  Euclidean reconstruction
  Euclidean space
  Euclidean transformation
  Euler angle
  Euler-Lagrange
  Euler number
  even field
  even function
  event analysis
  event detection
  event understanding
  exhaustive matching
  expectation maximization (EM)
  expectation value
  expert system
  exponential smoothing
  exponential transformation
  expression understanding
  extended Gaussian image (EGI)
  extended light source
  exterior orientation
  external energy (or force)
  extremal point
  extrinsic parameters
  eye location
  eye tracking

F

  face analysis
  face authentication
  face detection
  face feature detection
  face identification
  face indexing
  face modeling
  face recognition
  face tracking
  face verification
  facet model based extraction
  facial animation
  facial expression analysis
  factorization
  false alarm
  false positive
  fast Fourier transform (FFT)
  fast marching method
  feature
  feature based optical flow estimation
  feature based stereo
  feature based tracking
  feature contrast
  feature detection
  feature extraction
  feature location
  feature matching
  feature orientation
  feature point
  feature point correspondence
  feature point tracking
  feature selection
  feature similarity
  feature space
  feature stabilization
  feature tracking
  feature vector
  feedback
  Feret's diameter
  FERET
  FFT
  fiberscope
  fiducial point
  figure-ground separation
  figure of merit
  filter
  filter ringing
  filtering
  fingerprint identification
  fingerprint indexing
  finite element model
  finite impulse response filter (FIR)
  FIR
  Firewire (IEEE 1394)
  first derivative filter
  first fundamental form
  Fisher linear discriminant (FLD)
  fisheye lens
  flat field
  flexible template
  FLIR
  flow field
  flow vector field
  fluorescence
  fMRI
  FOA
  focal point
  focal plane
  focal surface
  focus
  focus control
  focus following
  focus invariant imaging
  focus of attention (FOA)
  focus of contraction (FOC)
  focus of expansion (FOE)
  FOE
  foreground
  foreshortening
  form factor
  Frstner operator
  forward looking radar
  Fourier-Bessel transform
  Fourier domain convolution
  Fourier domain inspection
  Fourier image processing
  Fourier matched filter object recognition
  Fourier shape descriptor
  Fourier slice theorem
  Fourier space
  Fourier space smoothing
  Fourier transform
  fovea
  foveal image
  foveation
  fractal image compression
  fractal measure/dimension
  fractal representation
  fractal surface
  fractal texture
  frame
  frame buffer
  frame grabber
  frame of reference
  frame store
  freeform surface
  Freeman code
  Frenet frame
  frequency domain filter
  frequency spectrum
  front lighting
  frontal
  full primal sketch
  function based model
  function based recognition
  functional optimization
  functional representation
  fundamental form
  fundamental matrix
  fusion
  fuzzy logic
  fuzzy morphology
  fuzzy set
  fuzzy reasoning

G

  Gabor filter
  Gabor transform
  Gabor wavelets
  gaging
  gait analysis
  gait classification
  Galerkin approximation
  gamma
  gamma correction
  gauge coordinates
  Gaussian convolution
  Gaussian curvature
  Gaussian derivative
  Gaussian distribution
  Gaussian mixture model
  Gaussian noise
  Gaussian pyramid
  Gaussian smoothing
  Gaussian speckle
  Gaussian sphere
  gaze control
  gaze direction estimation
  gaze direction tracking
  gaze location
  generalized cone
  generalized curve finding
  generalized cylinder
  generalized Hough transform
  generalized order statistics filter
  generate and test
  generic viewpoint
  genetic algorithm
  genetic programming
  genus
  Gestalt
  geodesic
  geodesic active contour
  geodesic active region
  geodesic distance
  geodesic transform
  geographic information system (GIS)
  geometric compression
  geometric constraint
  geometric correction
  geometric deformable model
  geometric distance
  geometric distortion
  geometric feature
  geometric feature learning
  geometric feature proximity
  geometric hashing
  geometric invariant
  geometric model
  geometric model matching
  geometric optics
  geometric reasoning
  geometric representation
  geometric shape
  geometric transformation
  geon
  gesture analysis
  gesture recognition
  Gibbs sampling
  GIF
  GIS
  glint
  global
  global positioning system (GPS)
  global structure extraction
  global transform
  golden template
  gradient
  gradient based flow estimation
  gradient descent
  gradient edge detection
  gradient filter
  gradient image
  gradient magnitude thresholding
  gradient matching stereo
  gradient operator
  gradient space
  gradient vector
  graduated non-convexity
  grammar
  grammatical representation
  granulometric spectrum
  granulometry
  graph
  graph cut
  graph isomorphism
  graph matching
  graph model
  graph partitioning
  graph representation
  graph searching
  e.g., decision trees). graph similarity
  graph theoretic clustering
  grassfire algorithm
  grating
  gray scale
  gray scale co-occurrence
  gray scale correlation
  gray scale distribution model
  gray scale gradient
  gray scale image
  gray scale mathematical morphology
  gray scale moment
  gray scale morphology
  gray scale similarity
  gray scale texture moment
  gray scale transformation
  gray value 
  greedy search
  grey 
  ground following
  ground plane
  ground tracking
  ground truth
  grouping
  grouping transform

H

  Haar transform
  Hadamard transform
  halftoning
  hand sign recognition
  hand tracking
  hand-eye calibration
  hand-eye coordination
  handwriting verification
  handwritten character recognition
  Hankel transform
  hat transform
  Harris corner detector
  Hartley transform
  Hausdorff distance
  HDTV
  height image
  Hessian
  heterarchical/mixed control
  heuristic search
  hexagonal image representation
  hidden Markov model (HMM)
  hierarchical
  hierarchical clustering
  hierarchical coding
  hierarchical Hough transform
  hierarchical image compression
  hierarchical matching
  hierarchical model
  hierarchical recognition
  hierarchical texture
  hierarchical thresholding
  high level vision
  high pass filter
  highlight
  histogram
  histogram analysis
  histogram equalization
  histogram modeling
  histogram modification
  histogram moment
  histogram smoothing
  hit and miss/hit or miss operator
  HK
  HK segmentation
  HMM
  holography
  homogeneous, homogeneity
  homogeneous coordinates
  homogeneous representation
  homography
  homography transformation
  homomorphic filtering
  homotopic transformation
  Hopfield network
  horizon line
  Hough transform
  Hough transform line finder
  HSI
  HSL
  HSV
  hue
  Hueckel edge detector
  Huffman encoding
  human motion analysis
  HYPER
  hyperbolic surface region
  hyperfocal distance
  hyperquadric
  hyperspectral image
  hyperspectral sensor
  hypothesize and test
  hypothesize and verify
  hysteresis tracking

I

  ICA
  iconic
  iconic model
  iconic recognition
  ICP
  ideal point
  IDECS
  identification
  identity verification
  IGS
  IHS
  IIR
  ill-posed problem
  illuminance
  illuminant direction
  illumination
  illumination field calibration
  illusory contour
  image
  image addition
  image analysis
  image acquisition
  image arithmetic
  image based
  image based rendering
  image blending
  image capture
  e.g.,acamera. image coding
  image compression
  image connectedness
  image coordinates
  image database indexing
  image difference
  image digitization
  image distortion
  image encoding
  image enhancement
  image feature
  image feature extraction
  image flow
  image grid
  image indexing
  image intensifier
  image interleaving
  image interpolation
  image interpretation
  image invariant
  image irradiance equation
  image magnification
  image matching
  image memory
  image morphology
  image mosaic
  image motion estimation
  image multiplication
  image noise
  image modality
  image normalization
  image of absolute conic
  image pair rectification
  image plane
  image plane coordinates
  image processing
  image processing operator
  image pyramid
  image quality
  image querying
  image reconstruction
  image rectification
  image registration
  image representation
  image resolution
  image restoration
  image sampling
  image scaling
  image segmentation
  image sequence
  image sequence fusion
  image sequence matching
  image sequence stabilization
  image sharpening operator
  image size
  image smoothing
  image stabilization
  image storage devices
  image subtraction operator
  image transfer
  image understanding
  Image Understanding Environment (IUE)
  image warping
  imaging geometry
  imaging spectroscopy
  imaging surface
  implicit curve
  implicit surface
  impossible object
  impulse noise
  incandescent lamp
  incident light
  incremental learning
  independent component analysis
  index of refraction
  indexing
  industrial vision
  infinite impulse response filter (IIR)
  inflection point
  influence function
  information fusion
  infrared
  infrared light
  infrared sensor
  inlier
  inspection
  integer lifting
  integer wavelet transform
  integral invariant
  integration time
  intensity
  intensity based database indexing
  intensity cross correlation
  intensity data
  intensity gradient
  intensity gradient direction
  intensity gradient magnitude
  intensity histogram
  intensity image
  intensity level slicing
  intensity matching
  intensity sensor
  interest point
  interest point feature detector
  interference
  interference fringe
  interferometric SAR
  interior orientation
  interlaced scanning
  intermediate representation
  internal energy (or force)
  internal parameters (of camera)
  interval tree
  interpolation
  interpretation tree search
  intrinsic camera parameters
  intrinsic dimensionality
  intrinsic image
  intruder detection
  invariant
  invariant contour function
  inverse convolution
  inverse Fourier transform
  inverse square law
  invert operator
  IR
  isometry
  isophote curvature
  iso-surface
  isotropic gradient operator
  isotropic operator
  iterated closest point
  iterative closest point (ICP)
  IUE

J

  Jacobian
  joint entropy registration
  JPEG
  junction label

K

  k-means
  k-means clustering
  k-medians (also k-medoids)
  k-nearest-neighbor algorithm
  Kalman filter
  Karhunen-Love transformation
  kernel
  kernel discriminant analysis
  kernel function
  kernel principal component analysis
  key frames
  KHOROS
  kinetic depth
  Kirsch compass edge detector
  knowledge-based vision
  knowledge representation
  Koenderink's surface shape classification
  Kohonen network
  KTC noise
  Kullback-Leibler distance/ divergence
  kurtosis
  Kuwahara

L

  label
  labeling problem
  lacunarity
  LADAR
  Lagrange multiplier technique
  Laguerre formula
  Lambert's law
  Lambertian surface
  landmark detection
  LANDSAT
  Laplacian
  Laplacian of Gaussian operator
  Laplacian pyramid
  laser
  laser illumination
  laser radar
  laser range sensor
  laser speckle
  laser stripe triangulation
  lateral inhibition
  Laws' texture energy measure
  least mean square estimation
  least median of squares estimation
  least square curve fitting
  least square estimation
  least squares fitting
  least square surface fitting
  leave-one-out test
  LED
  left-handed coordinate system
  Legendre moment
  Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW)
  lens
  lens distortion
  lens equation
  lens type
  level set
  Levenberg-Marquardt optimization
  license plate recognition
  LIDAR
  Lie groups
  light
  light source
  light source detection
  light source geometry
  light source placement
  light stripe ranging
  lightfield
  lighting
  lightness
  lightpen
  likelihood ratio
  limb extraction
  line
  line cotermination
  line detection operator
  line drawing analysis
  line fitting
  line following
  line grouping
  line intersection
  line junction
  line label
  line linking
  line moment
  line moment invariant
  line of sight
  line scan camera
  line segmentation
  line spread function
  line thinning
  linear array sensor
  linear discriminant analysis
  linear discriminant function
  linear features
  linear filter
  linear regression
  linear transformation
  lip shape analysis
  lip tracking
  local
  local binary pattern
  local contrast adjustment
  local curvature estimation
  Local Feature Focus (LFF) method
  local invariant
  local operator
  local point invariant
  local surface shape
  local variance contrast
  log-polar image
  log-polar stereo
  logarithmic transformation
  logical object representation
  long baseline stereo
  long motion sequence
  look-up table
  lossless compression
  lossy compression
  low angle illumination
  low frequency
  low level vision
  low pass filter
  Lowe's curve segmentation method
  luma
  luminance
  luminance efficiency
  luminous flux
  luminosity coefficient

M

  M-estimation
  Mach band effect
  machine vision
  macrotexture
  magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
  magnitude-retrieval problem
  Mahalanobis distance
  mammogram analysis
  Manhattan distance
  many view stereo
  MAP
  map analysis
  map registration
  marching cubes
  marginal distribution
  Markov Chain Monte Carlo
  Markov random field (MRF)
  Marr's theory
  Marr-Hildreth edge detector
  mask
  matched filter
  matching function
  matching method
  mathematical morphology operation
  matrix
  matrix array camera
  matte surface
  maximal clique
  maximum a posteriori probability
  maximum entropy
  maximum entropy restoration
  maximum likelihood estimation
  MCMC
  MDL
  mean and Gaussian curvature shape classification
  mean curvature
  mean filter
  mean shift
  mean smoothing operator
  measurement resolution
  medial axis skeletonization
  medial axis transform
  medial line
  medial surface
  median filter
  median flow filtering
  median smoothing
  medical image registration
  membrane model
  mesh model
  mesh subdivision
  metameric colors
  metric determinant
  metric property
  metric reconstruction
  metric stratum
  metrical calibration
  Mexican hat operator
  micron
  microscope
  microtexture
  mid-sagittal plane
  middle level vision
  MIMD
  minimal point
  minimal spanning tree
  minimum bounding rectangle
  minimum description length (MDL)
  minimum distance classifier
  minimum spanning tree
  MIPS
  mirror
  miss-one-out test
  missing data
  missing pixel
  mixed pixel
  mixed reality
  mixture model
  MLE
  modal deformable model
  mode filter
  model
  model acquisition
  model base
  model base indexing
  model based coding
  model based compression
  model based feature detection
  model based recognition
  model based segmentation
  model based tracking
  model based vision
  model building
  model fitting
  model invocation
  model reconstruction
  model registration
  model selection
  modulation transfer function (MTF)
  Moir fringe
  Moir interferometry
  Moir pattern
  moment
  moment characteristic
  moment invariant
  moments of intensity
  Mondrian
  monochrome
  monocular
  monocular depth cue
  monocular visual space
  monotonicity
  Moravec interest point operator
  morphological gradient
  morphological segmentation
  morphological smoothing
  morphological transformation
  morphology
  morphometry
  mosaic
  motion
  motion analysis
  motion blur
  motion coding
  motion detection
  motion discontinuity
  motion estimation
  motion factorization
  motion field
  motion layer segmentation
  motion model
  motion representation
  motion segmentation
  motion sequence analysis
  motion smoothness constraint
  motion tracking
  movement analysis
  moving average smoothing
  moving light display
  moving object detection
  moving observer
  MPEG
  MPEG 2
  MPEG 4
  MPEG 7
  MRF
  MSRE
  MTF
  multi-dimensional edge detection
  multi-dimensional histogram
  multi-grid method
  multi-image registration
  multi-level
  multi-modal analysis
  multi-modal fusion
  multi-modal neighborhood signature
  multi-ocular stereo
  multi-resolution method
  multi-scale description
  multi-scale integration
  multi-scale method
  multi-scale representation
  multi-sensor geometry
  multi-spectral analysis
  multi-spectral image
  multi-spectral segmentation
  multi-spectral thresholding
  multi-tap camera
  multi-thresholding
  multi-variate normal distribution
  multi-view geometry
  multi-view image registration
  multi-view stereo
  multiple instruction multiple data (MIMD)
  multiple motion segmentation
  multiple target tracking
  multiple view interpolation
  multiplicative noise
  Munsell color notation system
  mutual illumination
  mutual information
  mutual interreflection

N

  NAND operator
  narrow baseline stereo
  near infrared
  nearest neighbor
  Necker cube
  Necker reversal
  needle map
  negate operator
  neighborhood
  neural network
  Newton's optimization method
  next view planning
  next view prediction
  NMR
  node of graph
  noise
  noise model
  noise reduction
  noise removal
  noise source
  noise suppression
  noise-whitening filter
  non-accidentalness
  non-hierarchical control
  nonlinear filter
  non-maximal suppression
  non-parametric clustering
  non-parametric method
  non-rigid model representation
  non-rigid motion
  non-rigid registration
  non-rigid tracking
  non-symbolic representation
  normal curvature
  normal distribution
  normal flow
  normalized correlation
  NOT operator
  novel view synthesis
  NP-complete
  NTSC
  nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
  NURBS
  Nyquist frequency
  Nyquist sampling rate

O

  object
  object centered representation
  object contour
  object grouping
  object plane
  object recognition
  object representation
  object verification
  objective function
  oblique illumination
  observer
  observer motion estimation
  obstacle detection
  Occam's razor
  occluding contour
  occluding contour analysis
  occluding contour detection
  occlusion
  occlusion recovery
  occlusion understanding
  occupancy grid
  OCR
  octree
  odd field
  O'Gorman edge detector
  omnidirectional sensing
  opaque
  open operator
  operator
  opponent color
  optical
  optical axis
  optical center
  optical flow
  optical flow boundary
  optical flow constraint equation
  optical flow field
  optical flow field segmentation
  optical flow region
  optical flow smoothness constraint
  optical image processing
  optical transfer function (OTF)
  optics
  optimal basis encoding
  optimization
  optimization parameter estimation
  order statistic filter
  ordered texture
  ordering
  orientation
  orientation error
  orientation representation
  oriented texture
  orthogonal image transform
  orthogonal regression
  orthographic
  orthographic camera
  orthographic projection
  orthoimage
  orthonormal
  OTF
  outlier
  outlier rejection
  over-segmented

P

  paired boundaries
  paired contours
  pairwise geometric histogram
  PAL camera
  palette
  pan
  panchromatic
  panoramic
  panoramic image mosaic
  panoramic image stereo
  Pantone matching system (PMS)
  Panum's fusional area
  parabolic point
  parallax
  parallel processing
  parallel projection
  parameter estimation
  parametric edge detector
  parametric mesh
  parametric model
  paraperspective
  part recognition
  part segmentation
  partially constrained pose
  particle counting
  particle filter
  particle segmentation
  particle tracking
  Parzen
  passive sensing
  passive stereo
  patch classification
  path coherence
  path finding
  pattern grammar
  pattern recognition
  PCA
  PDM
  peak
  pedestrian surveillance
  pel
  percentile method
  perception
  perceptron
  perceptron network
  perceptual grouping
  perceptual organization
  performance characterization
  perimeter
  periodicity estimation
  person surveillance
  perspective
  perspective camera
  perspective distortion
  perspective inversion
  perspective projection
  PET
  phase congruency
  phase correlation
  phase matching stereo algorithm
  phase-retrieval problem
  phase spectrum
  phase unwrapping technique
  phi-s curve ( -s)
  photo consistency
  photodiode
  photogrammetry
  photometric invariant
  photometric decalibration
  photometric stereo
  photometry
  photon noise
  photopic response
  photosensor spectral response
  physics based vision
  picture element
  picture tree
  piecewise rigidity
  pincushion distortion
  pinhole camera model
  pink noise
  pipeline parallelism
  pit
  pitch
  pixel
  pixel addition operator
  pixel classification
  pixel connectivity
  pixel coordinates
  pixel coordinate transformation
  pixel counting
  pixel division operator
  pixel exponential operator
  pixel gray scale resolution
  pixel interpolation
  pixel jitter
  pixel logarithm operator
  pixel multiplication operator
  pixel subsampling
  pixel subtraction operator
  planar facet model
  planar mosaic
  planar motion estimation
  planar patch extraction
  planar patches
  planar projective transformation
  planar scene
  plane
  plane conic
  plane projective transfer
  plane projective transformation
  plenoptic function representation
  Plessey corner finder
  Plcker line coordinates
  PMS
  point
  point distribution model (PDM)
  point feature
  point invariant
  point light source
  point matching
  point of extreme curvature
  point sampling
  point similarity measure
  point source
  point spread function
  polar coordinates
  polar rectification
  polarization
  polarized light
  polarizer
  polycurve
  polygon
  polygon matching
  polygonal approximation
  polyhedron
  polyline
  pose
  pose clustering
  pose consistency
  pose determination
  pose estimation
  pose representation
  position
  position dependent brightness correction
  position invariant
  positron emission tomography (PET)
  postal code analysis
  posture analysis
  potential field
  power spectrum
  precision
  predictive compression method
  pre-processing
  Prewitt gradient operator
  Prewitt kernel
  primal sketch
  primary color
  principal component analysis (PCA)
  principal component basis space
  principal component representation
  principal curvature
  principal curvature sign class
  principal direction
  principal point
  principal texture direction
  privileged viewpoint
  probabilistic causal model
  probabilistic Hough transform
  probabilistic model learning
  probabilistic principal component analysis
  latent variable model). probabilistic relaxation
  probabilistic relaxation labeling
  probability
  probability density estimation
  procedural representation
  Procrustes analysis
  production system
  profiles
  progressive image transmission
  progressive scan camera
  projection
  projection matrix
  projective geometry
  projective invariant
  projective plane
  projective reconstruction
  projective space
  projective stereo vision
  projective stratum
  projective transformation
  property based matching
  property learning
  prototype
  proximity matrix
  pseudocolor
  PSF
  pyramid
  pyramid architecture
  pyramid transform

Q

  QBIC
  quadratic variation
  quadrature mirror filter
  quadric
  quadric patch
  quadric patch extraction
  quadrifocal tensor
  quadrilinear constraint
  quadtree
  qualitative vision
  quantization
  quantization error
  quantization noise
  quasi-invariant
  quaternion
  query by image content (QBIC)

R

  R-S curve
  radar
  radial lens distortion
  radiance
  radiance map
  radiant flux
  radiant intensity
  radiometric calibration
  photometers. radiometry
  radius vector function
  radon transform
  RAG
  random access camera
  random dot stereogram
  random sample consensus
  random variable
  randomized Hough transform
  range compression
  range data
  range data fusion
  range data integration
  range data registration
  range data segmentation
  range edge
  range flow
  range image
  range image edge detector
  range sensor
  rank order filtering
  RANSAC
  raster scan
  rate-distortion
  rate-distortion function
  raw primal sketch
  RBC
  real time processing
  receiver operating curves and performance analysis for vision
  receptive field
  recognition
  recognition by parts
  structural decompositionrecognition by structural decomposition
  reconstruction
  reconstruction error
  rectification
  recursive region growing
  recursive splitting
  reference frame transformation
  reference image
  reference views
  reference white
  reflectance
  reflectance estimation
  reflectance map
  reflectance ratio
  reflection
  reflection operator
  refraction
  region
  region adjacency graph (RAG)
  region based segmentation
  region boundary extraction
  region decomposition
  region descriptor
  region detection
  region filling
  region growing
  region identification
  region invariant
  region labeling
  region matching
  region merging
  region of interest
  region of support
  region neighborhood graph
  region propagation
  region representation
  region segmentation
  region snake
  region splitting
  registration
  regression
  regularization
  regularization number. relational graph
  relational matching
  relational model
  relational shape description
  relative depth
  relative motion
  relative orientation
  relaxation
  relaxation labeling
  relaxation matching
  relaxation segmentation
  remote sensing
  representation
  resection
  resolution
  restoration
  reticle
  retinal image
  retinex
  reverse engineering
  RGB
  ribbon
  ridge
  ridge detection
  right-handed coordinate system
  rigid body segmentation
  rigid motion estimation
  rigid registration
  rigidity constraint
  road structure analysis
  Roberts cross gradient operator
  Roberts kernel
  Robinson edge detector
  robust
  robust estimator
  robust regression
  robust statistics
  robust technique
  ROC
  roll
  roof edge
  rotating mask
  rotation
  rotation estimation
  rotation invariant
  rotation matrix
  rotation operator
  rotation representation
  rotational symmetry
  RS-170
  rubber sheet model
  rule-based classification
  run code
  run length coding
  run length compression

S

  saccade
  saliency map
  salient feature
  salt-and-pepper noise
  sampling
  sampling density
  sampling theorem
  Sampson approximation
  SAR
  SAT
  satellite image
  saturation
  Savitzky-Golay filtering
  scalar
  scale
  scale invariant
  scale operator
  scale reduction
  scale space
  scale space filtering
  scale space matching
  scale space representation
  scaling
  scanline
  scanline slice
  scanline stereo matching
  scanning electron microscope (SEM)
  scatter matrix
  scattergram
  scene
  scene analysis
  scene constraint
  scene coordinates
  scene labeling
  scene reconstruction
  scene understanding
  SCERPO
  screw motion
  search tree
  SECAM
  second derivative operator
  second fundamental form
  seed region
  segmentation
  self-calibration
  self-localization
  self-occlusion
  SEM
  semantic net
  semantic region growing
  sensor
  sensor fusion
  sensor motion compensation
  sensor motion estimation
  sensor path planning
  sensor placement determination
  sensor planning
  sensor position estimation
  sensor response
  sensor sensitivity
  sensor spectral sensitivity
  separability
  separable filter
  separable template
  set theoretic modeling
  shading
  shading correction
  shading from shape
  shadow
  shadow, attached
  shadow, cast
  shadow detection
  shadow type labeling
  shadow understanding
  shape
  shape class
  shape decomposition
  shape from contours
  shape from defocus
  shape from focus
  shape from line drawings
  shape from monocular depth cues
  shape from motion
  shape from multiple sensors
  shape from optical flow
  shape from orthogonal views
  shape from perspective
  shape from photo consistency
  shape from photometric stereo
  shape from polarization
  shape from shading
  shape from shadows
  shape from silhouettes
  shape from specularity
  shape from structured light
  shape from texture
  shape from X
  shape from zoom
  shape grammar
  shape index
  shape magnitude class
  shape representation
  shape texture
  sharp-unsharp masking
  shear transformation
  shock tree
  short baseline stereo
  shot noise
  shutter
  shutter control
  side looking radar
  signal coding system
  signal processing
  signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)
  signature identification
  signature verification
  silhouette
  similarity
  similarity metric
  similarity transformation
  simple lens
  simulated annealing
  single instruction multiple data (SIMD)
  single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
  singular value decomposition (SVD)
  singularity event
  sinusoidal projection
  skeleton
  skeleton by influence zones (SKIZ)
  skeletonization
  skew
  skew correction
  skew symmetry
  skin color analysis
  SKIZ
  slant
  slant normalization
  slice based reconstruction
  slope density function
  small motion model
  smart camera
  smooth motion curve
  smoothed local symmetries
  smoothing
  smoothing filter
  smoothness constraint
  snake
  SNR
  Sobel gradient operator
  Sobel kernel
  soft mathematical morphology
  soft morphology
  soft vertex
  solid angle
  source
  source geometry
  source image
  source placement
  space carving
  space curve
  space variant sensor
  spatial angle
  spatial averaging
  spatial domain smoothing
  spatial frequency
  spatial hashing
  spatial indexing
  spatial matched filter
  spatial occupancy
  spatial proximity
  spatial quantization
  spatial reasoning
  spatial relation
  spatial resolution
  spatio-temporal analysis
  special case motion
  speckle
  speckle reduction
  SPECT
  spectral analysis
  spectral decomposition method
  spectral distribution
  spectral factorization
  spectral filtering
  spectral frequency
  spectral reflectance
  spectral response
  spectrum
  specular reflection
  specularity
  sphere
  spherical
  spherical harmonic
  spherical mirror
  spin image
  splash
  spline
  control points
  spline smoothing
  split and merge
  SPOT
  spot detection
  spur
  squared error clustering
  stadimetry
  stationary camera
  statistical classifier
  statistical pattern recognition
  statistical shape model
  statistical texture
  steerable filter
  steganography
  step edge
  steradian
  stereo
  stereo camera calibration
  stereo correspondence problem
  stereo convergence
  stereo fusion
  stereo image rectification
  stereo matching
  stereo triangulation
  stereo vision
  stimulus
  stochastic gradient
  stochastic completion field
  stochastic process
  stratification
  streaming video
  stripe ranging
  strobe duration
  strobed light
  structural pattern recognition
  structural texture
  structure and motion recovery
  structure factorization
  structure from motion
  structure from optical flow
  structure matching
  structured light
  structured light source calibration
  structured light triangulation
  structured model
  structuring element
  subband coding
  subcomponent
  subcomponent decomposition
  subgraph isomorphism
  subjective contour
  subpixel edge detection
  subpixel interpolation
  subsampling
  subspace learning
  subspace method
  subtractive color
  superellipse
  supergrid
  superpixel
  superquadric
  superresolution
  supervised classification
  supervised learning
  support vector machine
  support vector regression
  surface
  surface area
  surface boundary representation
  surface class
  surface continuity
  surface curvature
  surface discontinuity
  surface fitting
  surface interpolation
  surface matching
  surface mesh
  surface normal
  surface orientation
  surface patch
  surface reconstruction
  surface reflectance
  surface roughness characterization
  surface segmentation
  surface shape classification
  surface shape discontinuity
  surface tracking
  surface triangulation
  surveillance
  SUSAN corner finder
  SVD
  SVM
  swept object representation
  symbolic
  symbolic object representation
  symmetric axis transform (SAT)
  symmetry
  symmetry detection
  symmetry line
  symmetry plane
  sync pulse
  syntactic pattern recognition
  syntactic texture description
  synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
  systolic array

T

  tabu search
  tangent angle function
  tangent plane
  tangential distortion (lens)
  target image
  target recognition
  task parallelism
  tee junction
  telecentric optics
  telepresence
  template matching
  temporal averaging
  temporal representation
  temporal resolution
  temporal stereo
  temporal tracking
  tensor product surface
  terrain analysis
  tessellated viewsphere
  test set
  tetrahedral spatial decomposition
  texel
  texture
  texture-based image retrieval
  texture boundary
  texture classification
  texture descriptor
  texture direction
  texture element (texel)
  texture energy measure
  texture enhancement
  texture field grouping
  texture field segmentation
  texture grammar
  texture gradient
  texture mapping
  texture matching
  texture model
  texture orientation
  texture primitive
  texture recognition
  texture region extraction
  texture representation
  texture segmentation
  texture synthesis
  Theil-Sen estimator
  thermal noise
  thickening operator
  thin plate model
  thinning operator
  three view geometry
  three dimensional imaging
  threshold selection
  thresholding
  thresholding with hysteresis
  TIFF
  time derivative
  time to collision
  time to contact
  time to impact
  time-of-flight range sensor
  tolerance band algorithm
  tolerance interval
  Tomasi-Kanade factorization
  tomography
  top-down
  top hat operator
  topological representation
  topology
  torsion
  torus
  total variation
  tracking
  traffic analysis
  training set
  trajectory
  trajectory estimation
  transformation
  translation
  translation invariant
  translucency
  transmittance
  transparency
  tree classifiers
  tree search method
  triangulated models
  triangulation
  trifocal tensor
  trilinear constraint
  trilinear tensor
  trilinearity
  trinocular stereo
  tristimulus theory of color perception
  tristimulus values
  true negative
  true positive
  truncated median filter
  tube camera
  twist
  twisted cubic
  two view geometry
  type I error
  type II error

U

  ultrasonic imaging
  ultrasound sequence registration
  ultraviolet
  umbilic
  umbra
  uncalibrated approach
  uncalibrated stereo
  uncalibrated vision
  uncertainty representation
  under-segmented
  uniform distribution
  uniform illumination
  uniform noise
  uniqueness stereo constraint
  unit ball
  unit quaternion
  unit vector
  unitary transform
  unrectified
  unsharp operator
  unsupervised classification
  unsupervised learning
  updating eigenspace
  USB camera

V

  validation
  valley
  valley detection
  value quantization
  vanishing line
  vanishing point
  variable focus
  variational approach
  algorithm
  variational method
  variational problems
  vector field
  vector quantization
  quantized into 256 elements. vehicle detection
  vehicle license/number plate analysis
  vehicle tracking
  velocity
  velocity field
  velocity moment
  velocity smoothness constraint
  vergence
  vergence maintenance
  verification
  vertex
  video
  video annotation
  video camera
  video coding
  video compression
  video indexing
  video rate system
  video restoration
  video segmentation
  video sequence
  vidicon
  view based object recognition
  view combination
  view volume
  viewer centered representation
  viewing space
  viewpoint
  viewpoint consistency constraint
  viewpoint dependent representations
  viewpoint planning
  viewsphere
  vignetting
  virtual bronchoscopy
  virtual endoscopy
  virtual reality
  virtual view
  viscous model
  visible light
  visibility
  visibility class
  visibility locus
  VISIONS
  visual attention
  visual cortex
  visual hull
  visual illusion
  visual industrial inspection
  visual inspection
  visual learning
  visual localization
  visual navigation
  visual routine
  visual salience
  visual search
  visual servoing
  visual surveillance
  volume
  volume detection
  volume matching
  volume skeletons
  volumetric image
  volumetric reconstruction
  volumetric representation
  Voronoi cell
  Voronoi diagram
  voxel
  voxmap
  VRML

W

  walkthrough
  Walsh function
  Walsh transform
  Waltz line labeling
  warping
  watermark
  watershed segmentation
  watershed transform
  wavelength
  wavelet
  wavelet descriptor
  wavelet transform
  weak perspective
  weakly calibrated stereo
  Weber's Law
  weighted least squares
  weighted walkthrough
  weld seam tracking
  white balance
  white noise
  whitening filter
  wide angle lens
  wide baseline stereo
  wide field-of-view
  width function
  Wiener filter
  windowing
  winged edge representation
  winner-takes-all
  wire frame representation
  world coordinates

X

  X-ray
  X-ray CAT/CT
  xnor operator
  xor operator

Y

  YARF
  yaw
  YCrCb
  YIQ
  YUV

Z

  Zernike moment
  zero crossing operator
  zero crossings of the Laplacian of a Gaussian
  zipcode analysis
  zoom
  zoom lens
  Zucker-Hummel operator
  Zuniga-Haralick operator