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One of the most intriguing questions in image processing is the
problem of recovering the desired or perfect image from a degraded
version. In many instances one has the feeling that the
degradations in the image are such that relevant information is
close to being recognizable, if only the image could be sharpened
just a little. This monograph discusses the two essential steps by
which this can be achieved, namely the topics of image
identification and restoration. More specifically the goal of image
identifi cation is to estimate the properties of the imperfect
imaging system (blur) from the observed degraded image, together
with some (statistical) char acteristics of the noise and the
original (uncorrupted) image. On the basis of these properties the
image restoration process computes an estimate of the original
image. Although there are many textbooks addressing the image
identification and restoration problem in a general image
processing setting, there are hardly any texts which give an
indepth treatment of the state-of-the-art in this field. This
monograph discusses iterative procedures for identifying and
restoring images which have been degraded by a linear spatially
invari ant blur and additive white observation noise. As opposed to
non-iterative methods, iterative schemes are able to solve the
image restoration problem when formulated as a constrained and
spatially variant optimization prob In this way restoration results
can be obtained which outperform the lem. results of conventional
restoration filters."
The range of applications in the area of motion analysis and image
sequence processing is expanding with the steady increase in the
use of video and television systems in a variety of different
fields. A consequence of this expansion is the increased interest
in research in this area. Motion Analysis and Image Sequence
Processing brings together the fundamentals of various aspects of
image sequence processing, as well as the most recent developments
and applications. An image sequence is a series of two-dimensional
images that are sequentially ordered in time. The analysis of image
motion, and processing of image sequences using the motion
information is becoming more and more important as video and
television systems are finding an increasing number of applications
in the areas of entertainment, robot vision, education, personal
communications, multimedia, and scientific research. The importance
of motion analysis and image sequence processing is due to two
major factors. First, the information that needs to be obtained
from the sequence may be inherently time-dependent. In that case,
spatial information that can be obtained from a single image frame
may not bear any useful information, and hence one must utilize
temporal information by considering a sequence of images. Second,
in some applications it may be advantageous to consider the
processing of a sequence of images instead of individual images.
This is because one can utilize the naturally existing temporal
relationship among the frames of an image sequence to obtain
results that are superior to those obtained by frame-by-frame
processing of the sequence. Motion Analysis and Image Sequence
Processing contains a coherent and rigorous discussion of recent
fundamental developments, as well as applications of motion
estimation and image sequence processing. Motion Analysis and Image
Sequence Processing is a useful reference for engineers, industrial
and academic research scientists, graduate students and faculty who
are either already active in research in the field or planning to
pursue research in one or more aspects of image sequence
processing. This book can be used as the textbook in an advanced
level course and as a reference. (ABSTRACT) The range of
applications in the area of motion analysis and image sequence
processing is expanding with the steady increase in the use of
video and television systems in a variety of different fields. A
consequence of this expansion is the increased interest in research
in this area. Motion Analysis and Image Sequence Processing brings
together the fundamentals of various aspects of image sequence
processing, as well as the most recent developments and
applications. An image sequence is a series of two-dimensional
images that are sequentially ordered in time. The analysis of image
motion, and processing of image sequences using the motion
information is becoming more and more important as video and
television systems are finding an increasing number of applications
in the areas of entertainment, robot vision, education, personal
communications, multimedia, and scientific research. The importance
of motion analysis and image sequence processing is due to two
major factors. First, the information that needs to be obtained
from the sequence may be inherently time-dependent. Motion Analysis
and Image Sequence Processing contains a coherent and rigorous
discussion of recent fundamental developments, as well as
applications of motion estimation and image sequence processing.
Motion Analysis and Image Sequence Processing is a useful reference
for engineers, industrial and academic research scientists,
graduate students and faculty who are either already active in
research in the field or planning to pursue research in one or more
aspects of image sequence processing. This book can be used as the
textbook in an advanced level course and as a reference.
An image or video sequence is a series of two-dimensional (2-D)
images sequen tially ordered in time. Image sequences can be
acquired, for instance, by video, motion picture, X-ray, or
acoustic cameras, or they can be synthetically gen erated by
sequentially ordering 2-D still images as in computer graphics and
animation. The use of image sequences in areas such as
entertainment, visual communications, multimedia, education,
medicine, surveillance, remote control, and scientific research is
constantly growing as the use of television and video systems are
becoming more and more common. The boosted interest in digital
video for both consumer and professional products, along with the
availability of fast processors and memory at reasonable costs, has
been a major driving force behind this growth. Before we elaborate
on the two major terms that appear in the title of this book,
namely motion analysis and image sequence processing, we like to
place them in their proper contexts within the range of possible
operations that involve image sequences. In this book, we choose to
classify these operations into three major categories, namely (i)
image sequence processing, (ii) image sequence analysis, and (iii)
visualization. The interrelationship among these three categories
is pictorially described in Figure 1 below in the form of an "image
sequence triangle.""
One of the most intriguing questions in image processing is the
problem of recovering the desired or perfect image from a degraded
version. In many instances one has the feeling that the
degradations in the image are such that relevant information is
close to being recognizable, if only the image could be sharpened
just a little. This monograph discusses the two essential steps by
which this can be achieved, namely the topics of image
identification and restoration. More specifically the goal of image
identifi cation is to estimate the properties of the imperfect
imaging system (blur) from the observed degraded image, together
with some (statistical) char acteristics of the noise and the
original (uncorrupted) image. On the basis of these properties the
image restoration process computes an estimate of the original
image. Although there are many textbooks addressing the image
identification and restoration problem in a general image
processing setting, there are hardly any texts which give an
indepth treatment of the state-of-the-art in this field. This
monograph discusses iterative procedures for identifying and
restoring images which have been degraded by a linear spatially
invari ant blur and additive white observation noise. As opposed to
non-iterative methods, iterative schemes are able to solve the
image restoration problem when formulated as a constrained and
spatially variant optimization prob In this way restoration results
can be obtained which outperform the lem. results of conventional
restoration filters."
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