A Selection of Image Understanding Techniques: From Fundamentals to Research Front

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to seven commonly used image understanding techniques in modern information technology. Readers of various levels can find suitable techniques to solve their practical problems and discover the latest development in these specific domains.

The techniques covered include camera model and calibration, stereo vision, generalized matching, scene analysis and semantic interpretation, multi-sensor image information fusion, content-based visual information retrieval, and understanding spatial-temporal behavior. The book provides aspects from the essential concepts overview and basic principles to detailed introduction, explanation of the current methods and their practical techniques. It also presents discussions on the research trends and latest results in conjunction with new development of technical methods.

This is an excellent read for those who do not have a subject background in image technology but need to use these techniques to complete specific tasks. These essential information will also be useful for their further study in the relevant fields.

本書提供了對現代資訊技術中七種常用影像理解技術的全面介紹。不同程度的讀者可以找到適合解決實際問題並了解這些特定領域最新發展的技術。這些技術包括相機模型和校準、立體視覺、通用匹配、場景分析和語義解釋、多感測器影像資訊融合、基於內容的視覺資訊檢索以及理解時空行為。本書從基本概念概述和基本原理到詳細介紹、解釋當前方法及其實際技術，提供了各個方面的內容。同時，本書還討論了研究趨勢和最新成果，並結合技術方法的新發展進行了探討。對於沒有影像技術背景但需要使用這些技術完成特定任務的讀者來說，這是一本很好的閱讀材料。這些基本資訊對於他們在相關領域進一步學習也會很有用。

Yu-Jin Zhang is a tenured professor of image engineering at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He earned his PhD in Applied Science from the State University of Liège, Liège, Belgium. He was a post-doc fellow of Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands. He is also a CSIG and SPIE fellow. Dr. Zhang has published 50 books and more than 500 research papers.

張玉進（Yu-Jin Zhang）是中國北京清華大學影像工程的終身教授。他在比利時列日的列日州立大學（State University of Liège）獲得應用科學博士學位。他曾是荷蘭代爾夫特理工大學（Delft University of Technology）的博士後研究員。他也是CSIG和SPIE的成員。張博士已出版50本書籍和500多篇研究論文。