February 24, 2009

Books on computer vision, part 4

As I have mentioned before, I am at the initial stages of writing a book on elementary computer vision (see part 1, part 2part 3). The alst one was Computer Vision by Shapiro and Stockman. Now a few thoughts about Computational Homology by Kaczynski, Mischaikow, and Mrozek (Springer, 2004).

Pros:
Cons:
Thorough presentation of all the mathematics is given.
  • A solid course in modern algebra is required for the student.
  • Prior experience with algebraic topology is required for the teacher.
Algorithms are presented in pseudocode.
Prior experience with algorithms is required.
Software (CHomP) is provided.
Prior experience with C++ is required.
The homology of n-dimensional images is addressed in full generality.
Not addressed: 

Website contains examples and downloads.
 
Numerous exercises are provided.
Projects provided online are geared toward academic research.
  The prerequisites make it a graduate course.

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