Preface;
Prerequisites and Overview;
Introduction to Computer Vision;
Python and NumPy;
Notation and Conventions;
Using Code Examples;
How to Contact Us;
Safari® Books Online;
Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: Basic Image Handling and Processing;
1.1 1.1 PIL-The Python Imaging Library;
1.2 1.2 Matplotlib;
1.3 1.3 NumPy;
1.4 1.4 SciPy;
1.5 1.5 Advanced Example: Image De-Noising;
1.6 Exercises;
1.7 Conventions for the Code Examples;
Chapter 2: Local Image Descriptors;
2.1 2.1 Harris Corner Detector;
2.2 2.2 SIFT-Scale-Invariant Feature Transform;
2.3 2.3 Matching Geotagged Images;
2.4 Exercises;
Chapter 3: Image to Image Mappings;
3.1 3.1 Homographies;
3.2 3.2 Warping Images;
3.3 3.3 Creating Panoramas;
3.4 Exercises;
Chapter 4: Camera Models and Augmented Reality;
4.1 4.1 The Pin-Hole Camera Model;
4.2 4.2 Camera Calibration;
4.3 4.3 Pose Estimation from Planes and Markers;
4.4 4.4 Augmented Reality;
4.5 Exercises;
Chapter 5: Multiple View Geometry;
5.1 5.1 Epipolar Geometry;
5.2 5.2 Computing with Cameras and 3D Structure;
5.3 5.3 Multiple View Reconstruction;
5.4 5.4 Stereo Images;
5.5 Exercises;
Chapter 6: Clustering Images;
6.1 6.1 K-Means Clustering;
6.2 6.2 Hierarchical Clustering;
6.3 6.3 Spectral Clustering;
6.4 Exercises;
Chapter 7: Searching Images;
7.1 7.1 Content-Based Image Retrieval;
7.2 7.2 Visual Words;
7.3 7.3 Indexing Images;
7.4 7.4 Searching the Database for Images;
7.5 7.5 Ranking Results Using Geometry;
7.6 7.6 Building Demos and Web Applications;
7.7 Exercises;
Chapter 8: Classifying Image Content;
8.1 8.1 K-Nearest Neighbors;
8.2 8.2 Bayes Classifier;
8.3 8.3 Support Vector Machines;
8.4 8.4 Optical Character Recognition;
8.5 Exercises;
Chapter 9: Image Segmentation;
9.1 9.1 Graph Cuts;
9.2 9.2 Segmentation Using Clustering;
9.3 9.3 Variational Methods;
9.4 Exercises;
Chapter 10: OpenCV;
10.1 10.1 The OpenCV Python Interface;
10.2 10.2 OpenCV Basics;
10.3 10.3 Processing Video;
10.4 10.4 Tracking;
10.5 10.5 More Examples;
10.6 Exercises;
Installing Packages;
A.1 NumPy and SciPy;
A.2 Matplotlib;
A.3 PIL;
A.4 LibSVM;
A.5 OpenCV;
A.6 VLFeat;
A.7 PyGame;
A.8 PyOpenGL;
A.9 Pydot;
A.10 Python-graph;
A.11 Simplejson;
A.12 PySQLite;
A.13 CherryPy;
Image Datasets;
B.1 Flickr;
B.2 Panoramio;
B.3 Oxford Visual Geometry Group;
B.4 University of Kentucky Recognition Benchmark Images;
B.5 Other;
Image Credits;
C.1 Images from Flickr;
C.2 Other Images;
C.3 Illustrations;
References;
About the Author;
Colophon;