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

0

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