Table of Contents - Measuring Shape [Book]

Skip to main content

Get full access to Measuring Shape and 60K+ other titles, with a free 10-day trial of O'Reilly.

There are also live events, courses curated by job role, and more.

Start your free trial

Contents

1. The Meaning(s) of Shape

Why Shape Matters

Measuring versus Comparing

Shape and Human Vision

Classification and Identification

Hierarchical Classification

The Threshold Logic Unit

Faces and Fingerprints

The General Problem

Correlating Shape with History or Performance

Shape Matching and Morphing

Object Recognition versus Scene Understanding

2. The Role(s) of Computers

Pixel Array Size

Camera Specifications

Image Processing to Correct Limitations

Color Adjustment

Noise Reduction I: Speckle Noise

Noise Reduction II: Periodic Noise

Nonuniform Brightness

Contrast and Brightness Adjustments

Distortion Correction

Image Processing for Enhancement

Cross-Correlation

Thresholding ...

Get Measuring Shape now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial

Don’t leave empty-handed

Get Mark Richards’s Software Architecture Patterns ebook to better understand how to design components—and how they should interact.

It’s yours, free.

Get it now

Cover of Software Architecture Patterns

Check it out now on O’Reilly

Dive in for free with a 10-day trial of the O’Reilly learning platform—then explore all the other resources our members count on to build skills and solve problems every day.

Start your free trial Become a member now