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3C Vision: Cues, Context and Channels
Author(s): Virginio Cantoni (Author), Stefano Levialdi (Author), Bertrand Zavidovique (Author)
- Publisher: Elsevier
- Publication Date: June 8, 2011
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 254 pages
- ISBN-10: 0323165095
- ISBN-13: 9780323165099
Book Description
The exponential explosion of images and videos concerns everybody’s common life, since this media is now present everywhere and in all human activities. Scientists, artists and engineers, in any field, need to be aware of the basic mechanisms that allow them to understand how images are essentially information carriers. Images bear a strong evocative power because their perception quickly brings into mind a number of related pictorial contents of past experiences and even of abstract concepts like pleasure, attraction or aversion.
This book analyzes the visual hints, thanks to which images are generally interpreted, processed and exploited both by humans and computer programs.
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About the Author
Dr Stefano Levialdi, IEEE Life Fellow, has published 300 papers on image processing, image communication and, in these last years, his research has focused on Human/Computer Interaction (visual languages and usability). He is Full Professor of Computer Science at Sapienza, Rome University since 1981. He won the Chair of Excelence at Carlos III University in Madrid. He has organized, chaired and contributed to over 50 International meetings. He is the Director of LUA (Laboratory of Usability and Accessibility at Sapienza). He is now retired, but works for the Elsevier Journal (JVLC) and reviews national research projects. His email is: stefano.levialdi@gmail.com
