The exponential explosion of images and videos concerns everybody's common
life, since this media is now present everywhere and in all human activities.
Scientists, artists and engineers, in any field, need to be aware of the
basic mechanisms that allow them to understand how images are essentially
information carriers. Images bear a strong evocative power, because their
perception quickly brings into mind a number of related pictorial contents
of past experiences, and even of abstract concepts like pleasure, attraction
or aversion.
This book analyzes the visual hints, thanks to which, images are generally
interpreted, processed and exploited, both by humans and computer programs.
Comprehensive introductory text
Introduces the reader to the large world of imagery on which many human
activities are based, from politics to entertainment, from technical reports
to artistic creations
Provides a unified framework where both biological and artificial vision are
discussed through visual cues, through the role of contexts and the available
multi-channels to deliver information
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