文件名称：Intelligent Image Processing
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Steve Mann University of
Intelligent Image Processing 341 pages This book has evolved from the author’s course on personal imaging taught at the University of Toronto, since fall 1998. It also presents original material from the author’s own experience in inventing, designing, building, and using wearable computers and personal imaging systems since the early 1970s. The idea behind this book is to provide the student with the fundamental knowledge needed in the rapidly growing field of personal imaging. This field is often referred to colloquially as wearable computing, mediated (or augmented) ‘reality,’ personal technologies, mobile multimedia, and so on. Rather than trying to address all aspects of personal imaging, the book places a particular emphasis on the fundamentals. New concepts of image content are essential to multimedia communications. Human beings obtain their main sensory information from their visual system. Accordingly, visual communication is essential for creating an intimate connection between the human and the machine. Visual information processing also provides the greatest technical challenges because of the bandwidth and complexity that is involved. A computationally mediated visual reality is a natural extension of the nextgeneration computing machines. Already we have witnessed a pivotal shift from mainframe computers to personal/personalizable computers owned and operated by individual end users. We have also witnessed a fundamental change in the nature of computing from large mathematical “batch job” calculations to the use of computers as a communications medium. The explosive growth of the Internet (which is primarily a communications medium as opposed to a calculations medium), and more recently the World Wide Web, is a harbinger of what will evolve into a completely computer-mediated world. Likely in the immediate future we will see all aspects of life handled online and connected. This will not be done by implanting devices into the brain—at least not in this course—but rather by noninvasively “tapping” the highest bandwidth “pipe” into the brain, namely the eye. This “eye tap” forms the basis for devices that are being currently built into eyeglasses (prototypes are also being built into contact lenses) to tap into the mind’s eye.