Full coverage of the theory and implementation of feature extraction algorithms and techniques. This new edition contains extensive new material on Haar wavelets, Viola-Jones, bilateral filtering, SURF, PCA-SIFT, moving object detection and tracking, development of symmetry operators, LBP texture analysis, Adaboost, and a new appendix on color models.

After reviewing the human vision system, Nixon (electronics and computer science, U. of Southhampton) and Aguardo (Sportradar) introduce signal processing theory for computer vision and current digital techniques for edge detection within an image, fixed shape matching, and deformable shape analysis. The undergraduate engineering textbook also explains the characterization of objects by boundary, region, and texture descriptions. The third edition adds a chapter on moving object detection and description and an appendix on color images. Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier. Annotation 2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)