Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications (Texts in Computer Science) Review

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(More customer reviews)I have been reading the drafts of this book posted on Richard Szeliski's website, [...] , for about an year now. This book is written to cover almost all state-of-the-art research areas in computer vision and provides a solid introduction and reference. Unlike other books on vision, this book is about applications. The chapters are arranged keeping in mind the different key research areas which should be learned by a computer vision student. Apart from providing an overview, every chapter has abundant key references which direct the student for in-depth understanding of a particular area. This book is a welcome addition as literary resource for the computer vision community. Even though Szeliski has kept the digital version freely accessible in his site, this book as a hardbound version with color figures is definitely indispensable for every computer vision student and researcher. After Horn's landmark book, this book is here to stay as the premier computer vision book for years to come. I have started recommending this book for all the undergraduate and graduate students in my lab and I am planning to order a hardbound version for my personal bookshelf.
I strongly recommend this book for every computer vision enthusiast and I definitely feel that this book has the best content to interest people working in different areas of computer vision either in industry or academia. This book is surely the best book to learn computer vision at this point of time.

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Sparse and Redundant Representations: From Theory to Applications in Signal and Image Processing Review

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(More customer reviews)The book starts with a prologue of an under-determined linear system and how sparsity constraints help to solve it with the use of a Langrangian. Next the authors introduce the key idea of how certain norms promote sparsity. There are some good diagrams that really help the geometric intuition (though not as good as the ones by Donoho et al. in connection with Lasso). I really love the way they motivate and frame the entire field but still appeal to concept that most people who have studied linear algebra can relate to.
The first 6 chapters are a master piece in pedagogy. Except for the not so-standard usage of Spark as the measurement of coherence among elements of a dictionary. Mutual coherence is common and easier to grasp since it directly address the size of inner products. This leads to a rather jarring switch when RIP is introduced.
I am still puzzled why the authors do not appeal to frame theory. That leads to strange looking reference to self-dual frames and tight frames when the book never talked about frames.
I also wonder why the authors did not cite Boyd's great book. The treatment of log-barrier was sort of just another penalty function. The term log-barrier was never used in the book.
Overall I cannot put the book down and was especially grateful to the authors for introducing iterative shrinkage as a central theme to link many modern numerical algorithms to solve the basic sparse optimization problem.

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This textbook introduces sparse and redundant representations with a focus on applications in signal and image processing. The theoretical and numerical foundations are tackled before the applications are discussed. Mathematical modeling for signal sources is discussed along with how to use the proper model for tasks such as denoising, restoration, separation, interpolation and extrapolation, compression, sampling, analysis and synthesis, detection, recognition, and more. The presentation is elegant and engaging.Sparse and Redundant Representations is intended for graduate students in applied mathematics and electrical engineering, as well as applied mathematicians, engineers, and researchers who are active in the fields of signal and image processing.

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Image Analysis, Random Fields and Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods: A Mathematical Introduction (Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is absolute a bible book for any person who want to learn Gibbs sampler and simulated annealing seriously. The format of this book, though full of mathematical equations, is very self-evident and concise. Nothing is missing and nothing is redundent. It is an enjoyable journey to follow the logic and principle in this book, with all your attention in. There are full of in-depth discussion in all aspect of the Gibbs sampler, simulated annealing, from the visiting scheme to cooling schedule, and parallel algorithms. The references are excellent too. The author seems to have read all publications till 1995 about this topic and give an excellent detailed and in-depth survey in his book. At the end of your reading, you would have love the mathematical form the author used. Without these tools, many discussions in this book will be just impossible and groundless. I personally have read this book for several times.

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"This book is concerned with a probabilistic approach for image analysis, mostly from the Bayesian point of view, and the important Markov chain Monte Carlo methods commonly used....This book will be useful, especially to researchers with a strong background in probability and an interest in image analysis. The author has presented the theory with rigor'he doesn't neglect applications, providing numerous examples of applications to illustrate the theory." -- MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS

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