A Sampler of Useful Computational Tools for Applied Geometry, Computer Graphics, and Image Processing shows how to use a collection of mathematical techniques to solve important problems in applied mathematics and computer science areas. The book discusses fundamental tools in analytical geometry and linear algebra. It covers a wide range of topics, from matrix decomposition to curvature analysis and principal component analysis to dimensionality reduction. Written by a team of highly respected professors, the book can be used in a one-semester, intermediate-level course in computer science. It takes a practical problem-solving approach, avoiding detailed proofs and analysis. Suitable for readers without a deep academic background in mathematics, the text explains how to solve non-trivial geometric problems. It quickly gets readers up to speed on a variety of tools employed in visual computing and applied geometry.

The two volume set LNCS 4841 and LNCS 4842 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2007, held in Lake Tahoe, NV, USA in November 2007.

The 77 revised full papers and 42 poster papers presented together with 32 full and 5 poster papers of 6 special tracks were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 270 submissions. The papers cover the four main areas of visual computing: vision, graphics, visualization, and virtual reality. There 6 additional special tracks address issues such as intelligent algorithms for smart monitoring of complex environments, object recognition, image databases, algorithms for the understanding of dynamics in complex and cluttered scenes, medical data analysis, and soft computing in image processing. The papers of this volume are organized in topical sections on motion and tracking, computer graphics, virtual reality, medical data analysis, calibration/reconstruction, visualization, computer vision applications, algorithms for the understanding, face reconstruction and processing, object recognition, and shape/motion/tracking.

The two volume set LNCS 4841 and LNCS 4842 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2007, held in Lake Tahoe, NV, USA in November 2007.

The 77 revised full papers and 42 poster papers presented together with 32 full and 5 poster papers of 6 special tracks were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 270 submissions. The papers cover the four main areas of visual computing: vision, graphics, visualization, and virtual reality. There 6 additional special tracks address issues such as intelligent algorithms for smart monitoring of complex environments, object recognition, image databases, algorithms for the understanding of dynamics in complex and cluttered scenes, medical data analysis, and soft computing in image processing. The papers of this volume are organized in topical sections on motion and tracking, segmentation, feature extraction, classification, intelligent algorithms for smart monitoring of shape/recognition, image databases, soft computing in image processing, and posters.