Product Description: Computer vision is the science and technology of making machines that see. It is concerned with the theory, design and implementation of algorithms that can automatically process visual data to recognize objects, track and recover their shape and spatial layout...read more

Product Description: Collecting articles covering talks and tutorials from the latest session of the International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS), this book offers a thorough exploration of current progress in the science and technology of making machines that see.

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