Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision: Research Topics and Applications

By Andrea Fossati

Book Overview

The potential of consumer depth cameras extends well beyond entertainment and gaming, to real-world commercial applications. This authoritative text reviews the scope and impact of this rapidly growing field, describing the most promising Kinect-based research activities, discussing significant current challenges, and showcasing exciting applications. Features: presents contributions from an international selection of preeminent authorities in their fields, from both academic and corporate research; addresses the classic problem of multi-view geometry of how to correlate images from different viewpoints to simultaneously estimate camera poses and world points; examines human pose estimation using video-rate depth images for gaming, motion capture, 3D human body scans, and hand pose recognition for sign language parsing; provides a review of approaches to various recognition problems, including category and instance learning of objects, and human activity recognition; with a Foreword by Dr. Jamie Shotton.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447146395
• ISBN13: 9781447146391
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.1"