Main description:

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.

Contents:

PART I: Visual mechanisms

Vision mechanisms
The image contents

PART II: Visual cues

Cues after artists (Lighting, Perspective, Relations) and tracks
Image data tracks
Image organization tracks
Multi image tracks

PART III: Visual contexts pp: 50

Contexts after artists (Retrieval, Recognition and Research) and tracks
Immediate context
Structure bound context
Interpretation bound context

PART IV: Visual channels

Channels after artists (Vision, Perception, Action)
Visual data structures
Perceptual structures
Visual communication

PART V: A vision about future developments