Terms defined in the
Dictionary of Computer Vision and Image Processing (2nd edition)
- 1D
- 1D projection
- 1-norm
- 2D
- 2D coordinate system
- 2D Fourier transform
- 2D image
- 2D input device
- 2D point
- 2D point feature
- 2D pose estimation
- 2D projection
- 2D shape descriptor (local)
- 2D shape representation (global)
- 2D view
- 2.1D sketch
- 2.5D image
- 2.5D model
- 2.5D sketch
- 3D
- 3D coordinate system
- 3D data
- 3D data acquisition
- 3D image
- 3D imaging
- 3D interpretation
- 3D model
- 3D model-based tracking
- 3D moments
- 3D motion estimation
- 3D motion segmentation
- 3D object
- 3D point
- 3D point feature
- 3D pose estimation
- 3D reconstruction
- 3D shape descriptor
- 3D shape representation
- 3D SIFT
- 3D skeleton
- 3D stratigraphy
- 3D structure recovery
- 3D SURF
- 3D surface imaging
- 3D texture
- 3D vision
- 3D volumetric imaging
- 4 connectedness
- 4D approach
- 4D representation (3D-spatial + time)
- 8 connectedness
- 8-point algorithm
- A*
- \textit{a posteriori} probability
- \textit{a priori} probability
- aberration
- absolute conic
- absolute coordinates
- absolute orientation
- absolute point
- absolute quadric
- absorption
- accumulation method
- accumulative difference
- accuracy
- acoustic sonar
- ACRONYM
- action cuboid
- action detection
- action localization
- action model
- action recognition
- action representation
- action unit
- active appearance model
- active blob
- active calibration
- active contour model
- active contour tracking
- active illumination
- active learning
- active net
- active recognition
- active sensing
- active shape model
- active stereo
- active structure from X
- active surface
- active triangulation
- active vision
- active volume
- activity
- activity analysis
- activity classification
- activity graph
- activity model
- activity recognition
- activity representation
- activity segmentation
- activity transition matrix
- acuity
- AdaBoost
- adaptation
- adaptive
- adaptive behavior model
- adaptive bilateral filter
- adaptive coding
- adaptive contrast enhancement
- adaptive edge detection
- adaptive filtering
- adaptive histogram equalization
- adaptive Hough transform
- adaptive meshing
- adaptive pyramid
- adaptive reconstruction
- adaptive smoothing
- adaptive thresholding
- adaptive triangulation
- adaptive visual servoing
- adaptive weighting
- additive color
- additive noise
- adjacency
- adjacency graph
- adjacent
- affective body gesture
- affective gesture
- affective state
- affine
- affine arc length
- affine camera
- affine curvature
- affine flow
- affine fundamental matrix
- affine invariant
- affine length
- affine moment
- affine quadrifocal tensor
- affine reconstruction
- affine registration
- affine stereo
- affine transformation
- affine trifocal tensor
- affinely invariant region
- affinity matrix
- affinity metric
- affordance and action recognition
- age progression
- agglomerative clustering
- AIC
- Akaike Information Criterion (AIC)
- albedo
- algebraic curve
- algebraic distance
- algebraic point set surfaces
- algebraic surface
- aliasing
- alignment
- ALVINN
- ambient light
- ambient space
- AMBLER
- amplifier noise
- analog/mixed analog--digital image processing
- analytic curve finding
- anamorphic lens
- anatomical map
- AND operator
- angiography
- angularity ratio
- anisotropic diffusion
- anisotropic filtering
- anisotropic structure tensor
- annotation
- anomalous behavior detection
- anomaly detection
- antimode
- aperture
- aperture control
- aperture problem
- apparent contour
- apparent motion
- appearance
- appearance-based recognition
- appearance-based tracking
- appearance change
- appearance enhancement transform
- appearance feature
- appearance flow
- appearance model
- appearance prediction
- appearance singularity
- arc length
- arc of graph
- architectural model reconstruction
- area
- area-based
- ARMA
- array processor
- arterial tree segmentation
- articulated object
- articulated object model
- articulated object segmentation
- articulated object tracking
- aspect graph
- aspect ratio
- aspect
- asperity scattering
- association graph
- astigmatism
- asymmetric SVM
- atlas-based segmentation
- atlas registration
- atomic action
- ATR
- attached shadow
- attention
- attenuation
- attributed graph
- atypical co-occurrence
- augmented reality
- autocalibration
- autocorrelation
- autofocus
- automated visual surveillance
- automatic
- automatic target recognition (ATR)
- autonomous vehicle
- autoregressive model
- autoregressive moving average (ARMA) model
- autostereogram
- average smoothing
- AVI
- axial representation
- axiomatic computer vision
- axis of elongation
- axis of rotation
- axis--angle curve representation
- B-rep
- b-spline
- b-spline fitting
- b-spline snake
- back projection
- background
- background labeling
- background modeling
- background normalization
- background subtraction
- back lighting
- back-propagation
- back-tracking
- bag of detectors
- bag of features
- bag of words
- bagging
- balanced filter
- bandpass filter
- bar
- bar-code reading
- bar detector
- barrel distortion
- Barycentric coordinates
- barycentrum
- bas-relief ambiguity
- baseline
- basis function representation
- batch learning
- Bayer pattern
- Bayes' rule
- Bayes' theorem
- Bayesian adaptation
- Bayesian classifier
- Bayesian data association
- Bayesian filtering
- Bayesian graph
- Bayesian information criterion
- Bayesian learning
- Bayesian model learning
- Bayesian model selection
- Bayesian network
- Bayesian Occam's razor
- Bayesian parameter inference
- Bayesian saliency
- Bayesian statistical model
- Bayesian temporal model
- BDRF
- beam splitter
- behavior affinity matrix
- behavior analysis
- behavior class distribution
- behavior classification
- behavior correlation
- behavior detection
- behavior footprint
- behavior hierarchy
- behavior interpretation
- behavior learning
- behavior localization
- behavior model
- behavior pattern
- behavior posterior
- behavior prediction
- behavior profile
- behavior profiling
- behavior representation
- behavioral context
- behavioral saliency
- belief network
- belief propagation
- Beltrami flow
- bending energy
- Bernoulli distribution
- best next view
- between-class scatter matrix
- between-class scatter matrix
- Bhattacharyya distance
- bias field estimation
- BIC
- bicubic spline interpolation
- bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF)
- bidirectional texture function (BTF)
- bilateral filtering
- bilateral smoothing
- bilateral symmetry
- bilinear surface interpolation
- bilinear transform
- bilinearity
- bimodal histogram
- bin-picking
- binarization
- binary classifier
- binary decision
- binary graph cut optimization
- binary image
- binary mathematical morphology
- binary moment
- binary noise reduction
- binary object recognition
- binary operation
- binary region skeleton
- binocular
- binocular stereo
- binocular tracking
- biometric feature
- biometrics
- bipartite matching
- bit map
- bit-plane encoding
- bitangent
- bitshift operator
- bivariate time-series
- black body radiation
- blade edge
- blanking
- blending operator
- blind deconvolution
- blind image forensics
- blob analysis
- blob extraction
- block coding
- blocking artifact
- blocks world
- blooming
- Blum's medial axis
- blur
- blur estimation
- body part tracking
- boosting
- border detection
- border tracing
- bottom-up
- bottom-up event detection
- bottom-up segmentation
- boundary
- boundary description
- boundary detection
- boundary grouping
- boundary length
- boundary matching
- boundary property
- boundary representation
- boundary-region fusion
- boundary segmentation
- bounding box
- box filter
- BRDF
- breakpoint detection
- breast scan analysis
- Brewster's angle
- brightness
- brightness adjustment
- brightness constancy
- broadcast video
- Brodatz texture
- building detection
- bundle adjustment
- burn-in
- butterfly filter
- CAD
- calculus of variations
- calibration object
- camera
- camera calibration
- camera connectivity matrix
- camera coordinates
- camera geometry
- camera lucida
- camera model
- camera motion compensation
- camera motion estimation
- camera pose
- camera position estimation
- camera topology inference
- Canny edge detector
- canonical configuration
- canonical correlation analysis (CCA)
- canonical direction
- canonical factor
- canonical variate
- capsule endoscopy
- cardiac gated dynamic SPECT
- cardiac image analysis
- Cartesian coordinates
- cartography
- cascaded Hough transform
- cascaded learning
- cascading Gaussians
- cast shadow
- CAT
- catadioptric optics
- categorization
- category
- caustic
- CAVE
- CBIR
- CCD
- CCIR camera
- cell microscopic analysis
- cellular array
- center line
- center of curvature
- center of mass
- center of projection
- center-surround operator
- central moment
- central projection
- CENTRIST bag of words descriptor
- centroid
- certainty representation
- chain code
- chamfer matching
- chamfering
- change detection
- character recognition
- character verification
- characteristic view
- chess-board distance metric
- chi-squared distribution ($\chi^2$)
- chi-squared test
- chip sensor
- chord distribution
- chroma
- chroma keying
- chromatic aberration
- chromaticity diagram
- chrominance
- chromosome analysis
- CID
- CIE chromaticity coordinates
- CIE L*A*B* model
- CIE L*U*V* model
- circle
- circle detection
- circle fitting
- circular convolution
- circularity
- city block distance
- class separability
- classification
- classifier
- clipping
- clique
- close operator
- closed-circuit television (CCTV)
- closed set recognition
- closed world
- clump splitting
- clustering
- clutter
- CMOS
- CMY
- CMYB
- CMYK
- coarse-to-fine processing
- coaxial illumination
- codebook
- codeword
- cognitive vision
- coherence detection
- coherence scale/volume
- coherent fiber optics
- coherent light
- coincidental alignment
- collimate
- collimated lighting
- collinearity
- collineation
- color
- color-based database indexing
- color-based image retrieval
- color clustering
- color constancy
- color co-occurrence matrix
- color correction
- color differential invariant
- color doppler
- color edge detection
- color efficiency
- color feature
- color gamut
- color grading
- color halftoning
- color histogram matching
- color HOG
- color image
- color image restoration
- color image segmentation
- color indexing
- color layout descriptor
- color matching
- color mixture model
- color models
- color moment
- color normalization
- color quantization
- color re-mapping
- color representation system
- color similarity
- color space
- color structure descriptor
- color temperature
- color texture
- colorimetry
- colorization
- combinatorial explosion
- compactness
- compass edge detector
- composite filter
- composite video
- compression
- compression noise
- compressive sensing
- compressive video
- computational camera
- computational complexity
- computational imaging
- computational photography
- computational symmetry
- computational theory
- computational tractability
- computational vision
- computed axial tomography
- computer-aided design (CAD)
- computer vision
- concave mirror
- concave residue
- concavity
- concavity tree
- concurrence matrix
- condensation tracking
- condenser lens
- conditional density propagation
- conditional dilation
- conditional distribution
- conditional independence
- conditional probability
- conditional random field (CRF)
- conditional replenishment
- cones (eye)
- confocal
- conformal mapping
- conic
- conic fitting
- conic invariant
- conical mirror
- conjugate direction
- conjugate gradient
- connected component labeling
- connectivity
- conservative smoothing
- constrained least squares
- constrained matching
- constrained optimization
- constraint satisfaction
- constructive solid geometry (CSG)
- content-based image retrieval
- context
- context-aware algorithm
- context dependent
- contextual event
- contextual image classification
- contextual information
- contextual knowledge
- contextual method
- contextually incoherent
- continuous convolution
- continuous Fourier transform
- continuous learning
- continuous random variable
- contour
- contour analysis
- contour following
- contour grouping
- contour length
- contour linking
- contour matching
- contour partitioning
- contour relaxation
- contour representation
- contour tracing
- contour tracking
- contourlets
- contrast
- contrast enhancement
- contrast stretching
- control point
- control strategy
- convex hull
- convexity
- convexity ratio
- convolution operator
- co-occurrence matrix
- Cook--Torrance model
- cooperative algorithm
- coordinate system
- coordinate system transformation
- coplanarity
- coplanarity invariant
- copy detection
- core line
- corner detection
- corner feature detector
- coronary angiography
- correlation
- correlation-based optical flow estimation
- correlation-based stereo
- correlogram
- correspondence-based morphing
- correspondence constraint
- correspondence problem
- cosine diffuser
- cosine integral images
- cosine transform
- cost function
- coupled hidden Markov model
- covariance
- covariance matrix
- covariance propagation
- crack code
- crack detection
- crack edge
- crack following
- Crimmins smoothing operator
- critical motion
- cross correlation
- cross-correlation matching
- cross ratio
- cross-section function
- cross-validation
- crossing number
- crowd flow analysis
- CSG
- CT
- cubic spline
- cuboid descriptor
- cumulative abnormality score
- cumulative anomaly score
- cumulative distribution function
- cumulative histogram
- cumulative scene vector
- currency verification
- curse of dimensionality
- cursive script recognition
- curvature
- curvature primal sketch
- curvature scale space
- curvature sign patch classification
- curve
- curve binormal
- curve bitangent
- curve evolution
- curve fitting
- curve inflection
- curve invariant
- curve invariant point
- curve matching
- curve normal
- curve representation system
- curve saliency
- curve segmentation
- curve smoothing
- curve tangent vector
- curvelet
- cut detection
- cutset sampling
- Cyclopean view
- cylinder extraction
- cylinder patch extraction
- cylindrical mosaic
- cylindrical surface region
- darkfield illumination
- data association
- data augmentation
- data fusion
- data integration
- data mining
- data parallelism
- data reduction
- data structure
- DCT
- deblocking filter
- deblur
- decay factor
- decentering distortion (lens)
- decimation
- decision boundary
- decision forest
- decision tree
- decoding
- decomposable filter
- deconvolution
- defocus
- defocus blur
- defogging
- deformable model
- deformable shape
- deformable shape registration
- deformable superquadric
- deformable template model
- deformation energy
- degradation
- degree of freedom
- dehazing
- Delaunay triangulation
- demon
- demosaicing
- Dempster--Shafer
- dendrogram
- denoising
- dense reconstruction
- dense stereo matching
- densitometry
- depth
- depth distortion
- depth estimation
- depth from defocus
- depth from focus
- depth gradient image
- depth image
- depth image edge detector
- depth map
- depth of field
- depth of focus
- depth perception
- depth sensor
- Deriche edge detector
- derivative-based search
- descattering
- description coding
- descriptor
- detection
- detection rate
- DFT
- diagram analysis
- dichroic filter
- dichromatic model
- diffeomorphism
- difference image
- difference-of-Gaussians operator
- differential geometry
- differential invariant
- differential pulse code modulation
- differentiation filtering
- diffraction
- diffraction grating
- diffraction limit
- diffuse illumination
- diffuse reflection
- diffusion filtering
- diffusion MRI tractography
- diffusion smoothing
- diffusion tensor imaging
- digital camera
- digital elevation map
- digital geometry
- digital image
- digital image forensics
- digital image processing
- digital image watermarking
- digital panoramic radiography
- digital radiography
- digital signal processor
- digital subtraction angiography
- digital terrain map
- digital topology
- digital watermarking
- digitally reconstructed radiograph (DDR)
- digitization
- dihedral edge
- dilate operator
- dimensionality
- dimensionality reduction
- direct least square fitting
- directed acyclic graph (DAG)
- directed graph
- directed graphical model (DGM)
- directed illumination
- direction
- directional derivative
- Dirichlet distribution
- Dirichlet prior
- Dirichlet process mixture model
- discontinuity detection
- discontinuity preserving regularization
- discontinuous event tracking
- discrete cosine transform (DCT)
- discrete curve evolution
- discrete Fourier transform (DFT)
- discrete random variable
- discrete relaxation
- discrimination function
- discrimination-generating Hough transform
- discriminative graphical model
- discriminative model
- discriminative random field
- disjoint view
- disparity
- disparity gradient
- disparity gradient limit
- disparity limit
- dispersion
- displacement vector
- dissimilarity metric
- distance function
- distance map
- distance metric
- distance transform
- distortion coefficient
- distortion polynomial
- distortion suppression
- distributed behavior
- distributed camera network
- distribution overlap
- dithering
- divide and conquer
- divisive clustering
- DIVX
- document analysis
- document mosaicing
- document retrieval
- DoG
- dominant color descriptor (DCD)
- dominant motion direction
- dominant plane
- Doppler
- downsampling
- downhill simplex
- DSP
- dual of the image of the absolute conic (DIAC)
- dual quaternion} {A dual quaternion is an ordered pair of \cvref{q
- dual-tree wavelet
- duality
- duplicate image retrieval
- dust filtering
- dynamic appearance model
- dynamic Bayesian network (DBN)
- dynamic correlation
- dynamic event
- dynamic occlusion
- dynamic programming
- dynamic range
- dynamic scene
- dynamic stereo
- dynamic texture
- dynamic time warping
- dynamic topic model
- early vision
- earth mover's distance
- eccentricity
- eccentricity transform
- echocardiography
- edge
- edge-based segmentation
- edge-based stereo
- edge detection
- edge direction
- edge enhancement
- edge finding
- edge following
- edge gradient image
- edge grouping
- edge histogram descriptor (EHD)
- edge image
- edge linking
- edge magnitude
- edge matching
- edge motion
- edge orientation
- edge point
- edge-preserving smoothing
- edge sharpening
- edge tracking
- edge type labeling
- edgel
- EGI
- egomotion
- egomotion estimation
- eigen-decomposition
- eigenface
- eigenspace-based recognition
- eigenspace representation
- eigentracking
- eigenvalue
- eigenvector
- eigenvector projection
- elastic matching
- elastic registration
- electromagnetic spectrum
- ellipse detection
- ellipse fitting
- ellipsoid
- elliptic snake
- elongatedness
- EM
- emotional state recognition
- empirical color representation
- empirical evaluation
- empirical mode decomposition
- encoding
- endoscope
- energy minimization
- ensemble learning
- entropy
- epipolar constraint
- epipolar correspondence matching
- epipolar geometry
- epipolar line
- epipolar plane
- epipolar plane image (EPI)
- epipolar plane image analysis
- epipolar plane motion
- epipolar rectification
- epipolar transfer
- epipole
- epipole location
- equalization
- erode operator
- error propagation
- essential matrix
- Euclidean distance
- Euclidean geometry
- Euclidean reconstruction
- Euclidean space
- Euclidean transformation
- Euler angle
- Euler--Lagrange equations
- Euler number
- even field
- even function
- event analysis
- event detection
- event understanding
- exhaustive matching
- expectation maximization (EM)
- expectation value
- expert system
- exponential smoothing
- exponential transformation
- exposure time
- expression understanding
- extended Gaussian image (EGI)
- extended light source
- exterior orientation
- external energy (or force)
- extremal point
- extrinsic parameters
- eye location
- eye tracking
- f-number
- face analysis
- face authentication
- face detection
- face feature detection
- face identification
- face indexing
- face liveness detection
- face modeling
- face recognition
- face tracking
- face verification
- facet-model extraction
- facial action coding system (FACS)
- facial animation
- facial expression analysis
- factor analysis
- factorization
- false alarm
- false negative
- false positive
- fan-beam reconstruction
- far light source
- FAST interest point detector
- fast Fourier transform (FFT)
- fast marching method
- feature
- feature-based optical flow estimation
- feature-based stereo
- feature-based tracking
- feature contrast
- feature descriptor
- feature detection
- feature extraction
- feature fusion
- feature location
- feature matching
- feature motion
- feature orientation
- feature point
- feature point correspondence
- feature point tracking
- feature representation
- feature selection
- feature similarity
- feature space
- feature stabilization
- feature tracking
- feature vector
- feedback
- FERET
- Feret's diameter
- FFT
- fiber optics
- fiberscope
- fiducial point
- field of view (FOV)
- figure--ground separation
- figure of merit
- filter
- filter ringing
- filtering
- filtering threshold
- fingerprint database indexing
- fingerprint identification
- fingerprint indexing
- fingerprint minutiae
- finite element model
- finite impulse response filter (FIR)
- FIR
- Firewire (IEEE 1394)
- first derivative filter
- first fundamental form
- Fisher linear discriminant (FLD)
- Fisher--Rao metric
- fisheye lens
- fitness function
- fixation
- flat field
- flexible template
- FLIR
- flow field
- flow histogram
- flow vector field
- fluorescence
- fluorescence microscopy
- fluorescent lighting
- fMRI
- FOA
- FOC
- focal length
- focal plane
- focal point
- focal surface
- focus
- focus control
- focus following
- focus-invariant imaging
- focus of attention (FOA)
- focus of contraction (FOC)
- focus of expansion (FOE)
- FOE
- fold edge
- foreground
- foreshortening
- form factor
- F\"{o}rstner operator
- forward--backward algorithm
- forward-looking radar
- Fourier--Bessel transform
- Fourier domain convolution
- Fourier domain inspection
- Fourier image processing
- Fourier matched-filter object recognition
- Fourier shape descriptor
- Fourier slice theorem
- Fourier space
- Fourier space smoothing
- Fourier transform
- fovea
- foveal image
- foveation
- fractal image compression
- fractal measure/dimension
- fractal representation
- fractal surface
- fractal texture
- frame
- frame buffer
- frame differencing
- frame grabber
- frame of reference
- frame rate
- frame store
- freeform surface
- Freeman code
- Frenet frame
- frequency domain filter
- frequency spectrum
- Fresnel diffraction
- Fresnel equations
- Fresnel lens
- front lighting
- front porch
- frontal presentation
- frontier point
- full primal sketch
- function-based model
- function-based recognition
- functional optimization
- functional representation
- fundamental form
- fundamental matrix
- fusion
- fuzzy logic
- fuzzy morphology
- fuzzy reasoning
- fuzzy set
- fuzzy similarity measure
- Gabor filter
- Gabor transform
- Gabor wavelets
- gait analysis
- gait classification
- Galerkin approximation
- gallery image
- gamma
- gamma correction
- gamma distribution
- gamut mapping
- gauge coordinates
- gauging
- Gauss map
- Gaussian convolution
- Gaussian curvature
- Gaussian derivative
- Gaussian distribution
- Gaussian--Hermite moment
- Gaussian mixture model
- Gaussian noise
- Gaussian process
- Gaussian process classification
- Gaussian process latent variable model (GP-LVM)
- Gaussian process regression
- Gaussian pyramid
- Gaussian smoothing
- Gaussian speckle
- Gaussian sphere
- gaze control
- gaze direction estimation
- gaze direction tracking
- gaze location
- generalized cone
- generalized curve finding
- generalized cylinder
- generalized eigenvalue
- generalized eigenvalue problem
- generalized Hough transform
- generalized mosaic
- generalized order statistics filter
- generate and test
- generative model
- generic viewpoint
- genetic algorithm
- genetic programming
- genus
- Gestalt
- geodesic
- geodesic active contour
- geodesic active region
- geodesic distance
- geodesic transform
- geographic information system (GIS)
- geometric algebra
- geometric compression
- geometric constraint
- geometric correction
- geometric deformable model
- geometric distance
- geometric distortion
- geometric feature
- geometric feature learning
- geometric feature proximity
- geometric hashing
- geometric heat flow
- geometric invariant
- geometric model
- geometric model matching
- geometric morphometrics
- geometric optics
- geometric reasoning
- geometric representation
- geometric shape
- geometric transformation
- geon
- gesture analysis
- gesture-based user interface
- gesture component space
- gesture recognition
- gesture segmentation
- gesture tracking
- ghost artifacts
- Gibbs point process
- Gibbs sampling
- GIF
- GIS
- gist image descriptor
- glint
- global point signature
- global positioning system (GPS)
- global property
- global structure extraction
- global transform
- gold standard
- golden template
- gonioreflectometer
- gradient
- gradient-based flow estimation
- gradient constraint equation
- gradient descent
- gradient edge detection
- gradient feature
- gradient filter
- gradient image
- gradient location and orientation histogram (GLOH) features
- gradient magnitude thresholding
- gradient matching stereo
- gradient operator
- gradient space
- gradient vector
- gradient vector flow
- gradient vector flow snake (GVF)
- graduated non-convexity
- grammar
- grammatical representation
- granulometric spectrum
- granulometry
- graph
- graph classification problem
- graph clustering
- graph cut
- graph embedding
- graph isomorphism
- graph kernel
- graph matching
- graph median
- graph model
- graph partitioning
- graph pruning
- graph representation
- graph searching
- graph similarity
- graph theoretic clustering
- graphical model
- grassfire algorithm
- Grassmannian space
- grating
- gray level~.~.~.
- gray scale
- gray scale co-occurrence
- gray scale correlation
- gray scale distribution model
- gray scale gradient
- gray scale image
- gray scale mathematical morphology
- gray scale moment
- gray scale morphology
- gray scale similarity
- gray scale texture moment
- gray scale transformation
- gray value~.~.~.
- greedy search
- grey~.~.~.
- grid filter
- ground following
- ground plane
- ground tracking
- ground truth
- group activity
- group association context
- grouping
- grouping transform
- H.263
- H.264
- Haar transform
- Hadamard transform
- Hahn moment
- halftoning
- Hamming distance
- hand orientation
- hand-sign recognition
- hand tracking
- hand--eye calibration
- hand--eye coordination
- handwriting verification
- handwritten character recognition
- Hankel transform
- harmonic homology
- Harris corner detector
- Hartley transform
- hat transform
- Hausdorff distance
- HDR
- HDTV
- height image
- Helmholtz reciprocity
- Helmholtz stereopsis
- Hessian
- heterarchical/mixed control
- heterogeneous sensor network
- heuristic search
- hexagonal image representation
- hidden Markov model (HMM)
- hidden state variable
- hierarchical
- hierarchical clustering
- hierarchical coding
- hierarchical hidden Markov model
- hierarchical Hough transform
- hierarchical image compression
- hierarchical $k$-means
- hierarchical matching
- hierarchical model
- hierarchical recognition
- hierarchical texture
- hierarchical thresholding
- high dynamic range imaging (HDR/HDRI)
- high-level vision
- high-pass filter
- higher-order graph cut
- highlight
- hinge loss function
- histogram
- histogram analysis
- histogram dissimilarity measure
- histogram equalization
- histogram modeling
- histogram modification
- histogram moment
- histogram of local appearance context (HLAC)
- histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) descriptor
- histogram of shape context (HOSC)
- histogram smoothing
- hit and miss (hit or miss) operator
- HK segmentation
- HMM
- holography
- homogeneous, homogeneity
- homogeneous coordinates
- homogeneous representation
- homogeneous texture
- homography
- homography transformation
- homomorphic filtering
- homoscedastic noise
- homotopic transformation
- Hopfield network
- horizon line
- Hough forest
- Hough transform
- Hough transform line finder
- HSI
- HSL
- HSV
- Hu moment
- hue
- Hueckel edge detector
- Huffman encoding
- human--computer interaction
- human motion analysis
- human motion tracking
- human pose estimation
- HYPER
- hyperbolic surface region
- hyperfocal distance
- hyperparameter
- hyperplane
- hyperquadric
- hyperspectral image
- hyperspectral sensor
- hypothesis testing
- hypothesize and test
- hypothesize and verify
- hysteresis tracking
- ICA
- iconic
- iconic model
- iconic recognition
- ICP
- ideal line
- ideal point
- IDECS
- identification
- identity verification
- IGS
- IHS
- IIR
- ill-posed problem
- illuminance
- illuminant direction
- illumination
- illumination constancy
- illumination estimation
- illumination field calibration
- illumination model
- illusory contour
- image
- image addition
- image alignment
- image analysis
- image annotation
- image acquisition
- image arithmetic
- image based
- image-based lighting
- image-based modeling
- image-based rendering
- image blending
- image capture
- image classification
- image coding
- image compression
- image connectedness
- image coordinates
- image database indexing
- image decomposition
- image denoising
- image descriptor
- image difference
- image digitization
- image distortion
- image encoding
- image enhancement
- image epitome
- image feature
- image feature extraction
- image flow
- image formation
- image gallery
- image grid
- image indexing
- image intensifier
- image interleaving
- image interpolation
- image interpretation
- image invariant
- image irradiance equation
- image magnification
- image matching
- image memory
- image modality
- image morphing
- image morphology
- image mosaic
- image motion estimation
- image multiplication
- image noise
- image normalization
- image of absolute conic
- image orthicon tube
- image pair rectification
- image parsing
- image plane
- image plane coordinates
- image processing
- image-processing operator
- image pyramid
- image quality
- image querying
- image reconstruction
- image rectification
- image registration
- image representation
- image resolution
- image restoration
- image retrieval
- image sampling
- image scaling
- image segmentation
- image semantics
- image sequence
- image sequence analysis
- image sequence fusion
- image sequence matching
- image sequence stabilization
- image sharpening operator
- image size
- image smoothing
- image stabilization
- image stitching
- image storage devices
- image subtraction operator
- image tagging
- image texton
- image transfer
- image transform
- image understanding
- Image Understanding Environment (IUE)
- image warping
- image watermarking
- imaging geometry
- imaging spectroscopy
- imaging surface
- implicit curve
- implicit surface
- importance sampling
- impossible object
- impulse noise
- incandescent lamp
- incident light
- incident light measurement
- incremental learning
- independent component analysis (ICA)
- independent motion detection
- index of refraction
- indexing
- industrial vision
- infinite impulse response filter (IIR)
- inflection point
- influence function
- information fusion
- infrared
- infrared imaging
- infrared light
- infrared sensor
- inlier
- inpainting
- inspection
- integer lifting
- integer wavelet transform
- integral image
- integral image compression
- integral invariant
- integration time
- intensity
- intensity-based database indexing
- intensity cross correlation
- intensity data
- intensity gradient
- intensity gradient direction
- intensity gradient magnitude
- intensity histogram
- intensity image
- intensity level slicing
- intensity matching
- intensity sensor
- inter-camera appearance variance
- inter-camera gap
- interest point
- interest point feature detector
- interference
- interference fringe
- interferometric SAR
- interior orientation
- interlaced scanning
- intermediate representation
- internal energy (or force)
- internal parameter
- interpolation
- interpretation tree search
- inter-reflection
- interval tree
- intrinsic parameter
- intrinsic dimensionality
- intrinsic image
- intruder detection
- invariant
- invariant contour function
- invariant feature
- invariant Legendre moments
- invariant theory
- inverse compositional algorithm
- inverse convolution
- inverse Fourier transform
- inverse halftoning
- inverse imaging problem
- inverse light transport
- inverse problem
- inverse rendering
- inverse square law
- inverse tone mapping
- invert operator
- IR
- iris recognition
- irradiance
- irregular octree
- irregular quadtree
- isomap
- isometry
- isophote curvature
- iso-surface
- isotropic gradient operator
- isotropic operator
- isotropic scaling
- iterated closest point
- iterative closest point (ICP)
- IUE
- Jacobian
- joint entropy registration
- joint invariant
- joint probability distribution
- JPEG
- JPEG 2000
- junction label
- K2 algorithm
- $k$-means
- $k$-means clustering
- $k$-medians (also $k$-medoids)
- $k$-nearest-neighbor algorithm
- Kalman filter
- Karhunen--Lo\`{e}ve transformation
- Kendall's shape space
- kernel
- kernel canonical correlation analysis
- kernel Fisher discriminant analysis
- kernel function
- kernel learning
- kernel principal component analysis (KPCA)
- kernel regression
- kernel ridge regression
- kernel trick
- key frame
- KHOROS
- kinematic motion models
- kinetic depth
- Kirsch compass edge detector
- knowledge-based vision
- knowledge representation
- Koenderink's surface shape classification
- Kohonen network
- Krawtchouk moments
- kTC noise
- Kullback--Leibler divergence
- kurtosis
- Kuwahara
- $L_1$ norm
- $L_2$ norm
- $L_\infty$ image coding
- label
- labeling problem
- lacunarity
- LADAR
- Lagrange multiplier technique
- Laguerre formula
- Lambert's law
- Lambertian surface
- landmark detection
- LANDSAT
- Laplace--Beltrami operator
- Laplacian
- Laplacian eigenspace
- Laplacian matrix
- Laplacian of Gaussian operator
- Laplacian pyramid
- Laplacian smoothing
- large field
- laser
- laser illumination
- laser radar (LADAR)
- laser range sensor
- laser speckle
- laser stripe triangulation
- latent behavior
- latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA)
- latent structure
- latent variable model
- lateral inhibition
- lattice
- Laws' texture energy measure
- layered motion model
- layered representation
- learning
- learning from observation
- least mean square estimation
- least median of squares estimation
- least square curve fitting
- least square estimation
- least square surface fitting
- least squares fitting
- leave-one-out test
- LED
- left-handed coordinate system
- Legendre moment
- Lempel--Ziv--Welch (LZW)
- lens
- lens distortion
- lens equation
- lens flare/glare
- lens model
- lens type
- level set
- level set tree
- Levenberg--Marquardt optimization
- Levenshtein edit distance
- license plate recognition
- LIDAR
- Lie group
- light
- light field
- light source
- light source detection
- light source geometry
- light source placement
- light stripe ranging
- light transport
- lightfield
- lighting
- lighting capture
- lightness
- lightpen
- likelihood function
- likelihood ratio
- likelihood score
- limb extraction
- limited angle tomography
- line
- line cotermination
- line detection operator
- line-drawing analysis
- line fitting
- line following
- line grouping
- line intersection
- line junction
- line label
- line linking
- line matching
- line moment
- line moment invariant
- line of sight
- line scan camera
- line segmentation
- line spread function
- line thinning
- linear
- linear array sensor
- linear discriminant analysis
- linear discriminant function
- linear features
- linear filter
- linear regression
- linear transformation
- linearly non-separable
- linearly separable
- lip shape analysis
- lip tracking
- local
- local binary pattern
- local contrast adjustment
- local curvature estimation
- Local feature focus (LFF) method
- local invariant
- local motion event
- local operator
- local point invariant
- local surface shape
- local ternary patterns (LTP)
- local variance contrast
- localization
- locally linear embedding (LLE)
- location-based retrieval
- log-likelihood
- log-normal distribution
- log-polar image
- log-polar stereo
- logarithmic transformation
- logical object representation
- logistic regression
- long baseline stereo
- long motion sequence
- look-up table
- lossless compression
- lossy compression
- low-activity region
- low-angle illumination
- low frequency
- low-level vision
- low-pass filter
- Lowe's curve segmentation method
- Lucas--Kanade method
- luma
- lumigraph
- luminance
- luminance efficiency
- luminosity coefficient
- luminous flux
- M-estimation
- Mach band effect
- machine learning
- machine vision
- macrotexture
- magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- magnification
- magnitude-retrieval problem
- Mahalanobis distance
- mammogram analysis
- man in the loop
- Manhattan distance
- Manhattan world
- manifold
- many-to-many graph matching
- many view stereo
- MAP
- map analysis
- map registration
- marching cubes
- marginal distribution
- marginal likelihood
- marked point process
- markerless motion capture
- Markov chain
- Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)
- Markov decision process (MDP)
- Markov network
- Markov process
- Markov property
- Markov random field (MRF)
- Markovian assumption
- Marr--Hildreth edge detector
- Marr's theory
- mask
- matched filter
- matching function
- matching method
- mathematical morphology operation
- matrix
- matrix-array camera
- matte extraction
- matte surface
- matting
- maximal clique
- maximum \textit{a posteriori} probability (MAP)
- maximum entropy
- maximum entropy restoration
- maximum flow
- maximum margin
- maximum margin Hough transform
- MCMC
- MDL
- mean
- mean and Gaussian curvature shape classification
- mean curvature
- mean field approximation
- mean filter
- mean shift
- mean shift filtering
- mean smoothing operator
- mean value coordinates
- measurement matrix
- measurement resolution
- medial
- medial axis skeletonization
- medial axis transform
- medial line
- medial surface
- median filter
- median flow filtering
- median smoothing
- medical image registration
- membrane model
- mesh compression
- mesh model
- mesh subdivision
- message-passing process
- metameric colors
- metric determinant
- metric property
- metric reconstruction
- metric stratum
- metrical calibration
- Mexican hat operator
- micro-mirror array
- micron
- microscope
- microtexture
- mid-sagittal plane
- middle-level vision
- millimeter-wave radiometric images
- MIMD
- minimal point
- minimal spanning tree
- minimum bounding rectangle
- minimum description length (MDL)
- minimum distance classifier
- minimum spanning tree
- MIPS
- mirror
- miss-one-out test
- missing data
- missing pixel
- mixed pixel
- mixed Poisson--Gaussian noise
- mixed reality
- mixing proportion
- mixture model
- maximum likelihood estimation
- modal deformable model
- mode filter
- model
- model acquisition
- model-assisted search
- model base
- model base indexing
- model-based coding
- model-based compression
- model-based feature detection
- model-based object recognition
- model-based recognition
- model-based segmentation
- model-based tracking
- model-based vision
- model building
- model exploitation
- model exploration
- model fitting
- model inference
- model invocation
- model matching
- model order
- model order selection
- model parameter learning
- model parameter update
- model reconstruction
- model registration
- model robustness
- model selection
- model structure
- model topology
- modulation transfer function (MTF)
- moir\'{e} fringe
- moir\'{e} interferometry
- moir\'{e} pattern
- moir\'{e} topography
- moment
- moment characteristic
- moment invariant
- moment of intensity
- Mondrian
- monochrome
- monocular
- monocular depth cue
- monocular visual space
- monogenic wavelets
- monotonicity
- Monte Carlo methods
- Moravec interest point operator
- morphable models
- morphing
- morphological gradient
- morphological image processing
- morphological segmentation
- morphological smoothing
- morphological transformation
- morphology
- morphometry
- mosaic
- most probable explanation
- mother wavelet
- motion
- motion analysis
- motion blur
- motion capture
- motion coding
- motion compensation
- motion deblurring
- motion descriptor
- motion detection
- motion direction profile
- motion discontinuity
- motion estimation
- motion factorization
- motion feature
- motion field
- motion history image (MHI)
- motion history volume
- motion layer segmentation
- motion model
- motion moment
- motion parallax
- motion representation
- motion segmentation
- motion sequence analysis
- motion smoothness constraint
- motion tracking
- motion understanding
- movement analysis
- moving average smoothing
- moving light display
- moving object detection
- moving observer
- MPEG
- MPEG-2
- MPEG-4
- MPEG-7
- MPEG-7 descriptor
- MRF
- MRI
- MSRE
- MTF
- multibaseline stereo
- multi-camera behavior correlation
- multi-camera distributed behavior
- multi-camera system
- multi-camera-system blind area
- multi-camera topology
- multichannel kernel
- multidimensional edge detection
- multidimensional histogram
- multidimensional scaling (MDS)
- multifilter bank
- multifocal tensor
- multifocus images
- multigrid method
- multi-image registration
- multilayer perceptron network (MLP)
- multilevel method
- multilinear constraint
- multilinear method
- multimodal analysis
- multimodal fusion
- multimodal image alignment
- multimodal neighborhood signature
- multi-object behavior
- multi-ocular stereo
- multi-resolution method
- multi-scale description
- multi-scale integration
- multi-scale method
- multi-scale representation
- multi-sensor geometry
- multi-spectral analysis
- multi-spectral image
- multi-spectral segmentation
- multi-spectral thresholding
- multi-tap camera
- multi-thresholding
- multi-variate normal distribution
- multi-view geometry
- multi-view image registration
- multi-view stereo
- multiple instance learning
- multiple instruction multiple data (MIMD)
- multiple kernel learning
- multiple light source detection
- multiple motion segmentation
- multiple target tracking
- multiple view interpolation
- multiplexed illumination
- multiplicative noise
- multi-resolution image analysis
- multi-sensor alignment
- multi-sensory fusion
- multi-view activity representation
- Munsell color notation system
- mutual illumination
- mutual information
- mutual interreflection
- na\"{\i}ve Bayes classifier
- NAND operator
- narrow baseline stereo
- natural image statistics
- natural material recognition
- natural neighbor interpolation
- near infrared
- near light source
- near duplicate image/video retrieval
- nearest neighbor
- Necker cube
- Necker reversal
- needle map
- negate operator
- neighborhood
- neural network
- neutral expression
- Newton optimization
- next view planning
- next view prediction
- NMR
- node of graph
- noise
- noise characteristics
- noise model
- noise reduction
- noise removal
- noise source
- noise suppression
- noise-whitening filter
- noiselets
- non-accidentalness
- non-affective gesture
- non-central camera
- non-convexity
- non-hierarchical control
- non-Lambertian reflection, non-Lambertian surface
- nonlinear diffusion
- nonlinear filter
- non-local patches
- non-maximal suppression
- non-negative matrix factorization (NMF)
- non-overlapping field of view
- non-parametric clustering
- non-parametric method
- non-rigid model representation
- non-rigid motion
- non-rigid registration
- non-rigid structure from motion
- non-rigid tracking
- non-symbolic representation
- non-uniform illumination
- nonverbal communication
- normal curvature
- normal distribution
- normal flow
- normalized compression distance (NCD)
- normalized correlation
- normalized discounted cumulative gain
- NOT operator
- novel view synthesis
- NP-complete
- NTSC
- nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
- nuclear norm
- number plate recognition
- NURBS
- Nyquist frequency
- Nyquist sampling rate
- object
- object-based representation
- object-centered representation
- object class recognition (categorization)
- object contour
- object detection
- object grouping
- object indexing
- object localization
- object plane
- object recognition
- object representation
- object segmentation
- object verification
- objective function
- oblique illumination
- observation probability
- observation variable
- observational space
- observer
- observer motion estimation
- obstacle detection
- Occam's razor
- occluding contour
- occluding contour analysis
- occluding contour detection
- occlusion
- occlusion detection
- occlusion recovery
- occlusion understanding
- occupancy grid
- OCR
- octree
- odd field
- off-axis imaging
- O'Gorman edge detector
- omni-directional camera
- omni-directional sensing
- omni-directional stereo
- omni-directional vision
- online anomaly detection
- online filtered inference
- online learning
- online likelihood ratio test
- online model adaptation
- online processing
- online video screening
- one-class learning
- one-shot learning
- one-versus-rest classification
- opaque
- open operator
- open set recognition
- operator
- opponent color
- optical axis
- optical center
- optical character recognition (OCR)
- optical coherence tomography
- optical flow
- optical flow boundary
- optical flow constraint equation
- optical flow field
- optical flow field segmentation
- optical flow region
- optical flow smoothness constraint
- optical image processing
- optical process
- optical transfer function (OTF)
- optics
- optimal basis encoding
- optimization
- optimization parameter estimation
- OR operator
- order statistics filter
- ordered texture
- ordering
- ordering constraint
- orderless images
- ordinal transformation
- Oren--Nayar model
- orientation
- orientation error
- orientation representation
- oriented projective geometry
- oriented smoothness
- oriented texture
- orthogonal Fourier--Mellin moment invariants
- orthogonal image transform
- orthogonal regression
- orthographic
- orthographic camera
- orthographic projection
- orthoimage
- orthonormal
- OTF
- outlier
- outlier detection
- outlier rejection
- out-of-focus blur
- over-fitting
- oversampling
- over-segmented
- paired boundaries
- paired contours
- pair-wise correlation
- pairwise geometric histogram (PGH)
- PAL camera
- palette
- pan
- pan--tilt--zoom (PTZ)
- panchromatic
- panchromatic images
- panoramic
- panoramic image mosaic
- panoramic image stereo
- Pantone matching system (PMS)
- Panum's fusional area
- parabolic point
- parallax
- parallel processing
- parallel projection
- parameter estimation
- parametric edge detector
- parametric mesh
- parametric model
- parametric warps
- paraperspective
- Pareto optimal
- part-based representation
- part recognition
- part segmentation
- partial volume interpolation
- partially constrained pose
- partially observable Markov decision (POMDP)
- particle counting
- particle filter
- particle flow tracking
- particle segmentation
- particle swarm optimization
- particle tracking
- Parzen window
- passive sensing
- passive stereo algorithm
- patch classification
- path coherence
- path finding
- pattern grammar
- pattern matching
- pattern recognition
- PCA
- PDE
- PDM
- peak
- Pearson's correlation coefficient
- pedestrian detection
- pedestrian surveillance
- pel
- penalty term
- pencil of lines
- penumbra
- percentile method
- perception
- perceptron
- perceptron network
- perceptual grouping
- perceptual organization
- performance characterization
- perimeter
- periodic color filter arrays
- periodicity estimation
- person surveillance
- perspective
- perspective camera
- perspective distortion
- perspective inversion
- perspective projection
- perspective transformation
- PET
- phase-based registration
- phase congruency
- phase correlation
- phase-matching stereo algorithm
- phase-retrieval problem
- phase spectrum
- phase-unwrapping technique
- phi--s curve ($\phi$--s)
- Phong reflectance model
- photo consistency
- photodiode
- photogrammetry
- photography
- photometric decalibration
- photometric invariant
- photometric stereo
- photometry
- photon noise
- photopic response
- photosensor spectral response
- physics-based vision
- pictorial pattern recognition
- picture element
- picture tree
- piecewise rigidity
- pincushion distortion
- pinhole camera model
- pink noise
- pipeline parallelism
- pit
- pitch
- pixel
- pixel addition operator
- pixel-based representation
- pixel-change history
- pixel classification
- pixel connectivity
- pixel coordinate transformation
- pixel coordinates
- pixel counting
- pixel division operator
- pixel exponential operator
- pixel gray scale resolution
- pixel interpolation
- pixel jitter
- pixel logarithm operator
- pixel multiplication operator
- pixel subsampling
- pixel subtraction operator
- place recognition
- planar facet model
- planar mosaic
- planar motion estimation
- planar patch extraction
- planar patches
- planar projective transformation
- planar rectification
- planar scene
- Planckian locus
- plane
- plane conic
- plane+parallax
- plane projective transfer
- plane projective transformation
- plane sweeping
- plenoptic camera
- plenoptic function representation
- plenoptic sampling
- Plessey corner finder
- Pl\"ucker line coordinates
- PMS
- PnP problem
- point
- point-based rendering
- point cloud
- point distribution model (PDM)
- point feature
- point invariant
- point light source
- point matching
- point of extreme curvature
- point sampling
- point similarity measure
- point source
- point spread function
- Poisson distribution
- Poisson noise
- Poisson noise removal
- polar coordinates
- polar harmonic transforms
- polar rectification
- polarization
- polarized light
- polarizer
- Polya distribution
- polycurve
- polygon
- polygon matching
- polygonal approximation
- polyhedron
- polyline
- pose
- pose clustering
- pose consistency
- pose determination
- pose estimation
- pose representation
- position
- position-dependent brightness correction
- position invariant
- positron emission tomography (PET)
- postal code analysis
- posterior distribution
- posterior probability
- posture analysis
- potential field
- potential function
- power spectrum
- precision
- predictive compression method
- pre-processing
- Prewitt gradient operator
- Prewitt kernel
- Prim's algorithm
- primal sketch
- primary color
- principal component analysis (PCA)
- principal component basis space
- principal component representation
- principal curvature
- principal curvature sign class
- principal direction
- principal point
- principal texture direction
- prior distribution
- prior domain knowledge
- privileged viewpoint
- probabilistic causal model
- probabilistic data association
- probabilistic distribution
- probabilistic graphical model
- probabilistic Hough transform
- probabilistic inference
- probabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA)
- probabilistic model learning
- probabilistic principal component analysis
- probabilistic relaxation
- probabilistic relaxation labeling
- probability
- probability density
- probability density estimation
- probability density function
- probability distribution
- probe data
- probe image
- probe pattern
- probe set
- probe video
- procedural representation
- Procrustes analysis
- Procrustes average
- production system
- profiles
- progressive image transmission
- progressive scan camera
- projection
- projection matrix
- projective geometry
- projective invariant
- projective plane
- projective reconstruction
- projective space
- projective stereo vision
- projective stratum
- projective transformation
- property-based matching
- property learning
- prototype
- proximity matrix
- pseudocolor
- PSF
- psychophysics
- PTZ
- purposive perception
- purposive vision
- pyramid
- pyramid architecture
- pyramid transform
- pyramid vector quantization
- QBIC
- quadratic form
- quadratic variation
- quadrature mirror filter
- quadric
- quadric patch
- quadric patch extraction
- quadrifocal tensor
- quadrilinear constraint
- quadtree
- qualitative vision
- quantization
- quantization error
- quantization noise
- quasi-affine reconstruction
- quasi-invariant
- quaternion
- query by image content (QBIC)
- R--S curve
- radar
- radial basis function (RBF)
- radial basis function network
- radial lens distortion
- radiance
- radiance map
- radiant flux
- radiant intensity
- radiation
- radiometric calibration
- radiometric response function
- radiometry
- radius vector function
- radon transform
- RAG
- random access camera
- random dot stereogram
- random forest
- random process
- random sample consensus
- random variable
- randomized Hough transform
- range compression
- range data
- range data fusion
- range data integration
- range data registration
- range data segmentation
- range edge
- range flow
- range image
- range image edge detector
- range sensor
- rank-based gradient estimation
- rank order filtering
- RankBoost
- ranking function
- ranking problem
- rank support vector machine (SVM)
- RANSAC
- raster scan
- rate distortion
- rate-distortion function
- rate invariant action recognition
- raw primal sketch
- RBC
- real-time processing
- receiver operating curve (ROC)
- receptive field
- recognition
- recognition by components (RBC)
- recognition by parts
- recognition by structural decomposition
- reconstruction
- reconstruction error
- rectification
- recursive region growing
- recursive splitting
- reference frame transformation
- reference image
- reference plane
- reference views
- reference white
- reflectance
- reflectance estimation
- reflectance map
- reflectance model
- reflectance ratio
- reflection
- reflection operator
- refraction
- region
- region adjacency graph (RAG)
- region-based active contours
- region-based segmentation
- region boundary extraction
- region decomposition
- region descriptor
- region detection
- region filling
- region growing
- region identification
- region invariant
- region labeling
- region matching
- region merging
- region neighborhood graph
- region of interest
- region of support
- region propagation
- region representation
- region segmentation
- region snake
- region splitting
- regional activity
- registration
- regression
- regression testing
- regularization
- relational graph
- relational matching
- relational model
- relational shape description
- relative depth
- relative motion
- relative orientation
- relaxation
- relaxation labeling
- relaxation matching
- relaxation segmentation
- relevance feedback
- relevance learning
- relevance vector machine (RVM)
- relighting
- remote sensing
- representation
- resection
- residual
- resolution
- restoration
- reticle
- retina
- retinal image
- retinex
- retro-illumination
- retroreflection
- reverse engineering
- RGB
- ribbon
- Ricci flow
- ridge
- ridge detection
- ridge regression
- Riemannian manifold
- right-handed coordinate system
- rigid body segmentation
- rigid motion estimation
- rigid registration
- rigidity constraint
- ring artifact
- road structure analysis
- Roberts cross gradient operator
- Roberts kernel
- Robinson edge detector
- robot behavior
- robot vision
- robust
- robust estimator
- robust regression
- robust statistics
- robust technique
- ROC
- Rodrigues rotation formula
- rod (in eye)
- roll
- rolling shutter camera
- roof edge
- rotating mask
- rotation
- rotation estimation
- rotation invariant
- rotation matrix
- rotation operator
- rotation representation
- rotational symmetry
- rotoscoping
- RS-170
- rubber sheet model
- rule-based classification
- run code
- run-length coding
- run-length compression
- saccade
- salience
- saliency map
- salient behavior
- salient feature
- salient pixel group
- salient point
- salient regions
- salt-and-pepper noise
- sample covariance
- sample mean
- sampling
- sampling bias
- sampling density
- sampling theorem
- Sampson approximation
- SAR
- SAT
- satellite image
- saturation
- Savitzky--Golay filtering
- scalability
- scalar
- scale
- scale invariant
- scale operator
- scale reduction
- scale selection
- scale space
- scale space filtering
- scale space matching
- scale-space representation
- scaling
- scaling factor
- scanline
- scanline slice
- scanline stereo matching
- scanning electron microscope (SEM)
- scatter matrix
- scattergram
- scatterplot
- scene
- scene analysis
- scene classification
- scene constraint
- scene coordinates
- scene decomposition
- scene labeling
- scene layout
- scene modeling
- scene recognition
- scene reconstruction
- scene understanding
- scene vector
- SCERPO
- screw motion
- search tree
- SECAM
- second-derivative operator
- second fundamental form
- seed region
- segmentation
- self-calibration
- self-localization
- self-occlusion
- self-similarity matrix
- SEM
- semantic gap
- semantic image annotation and retrieval
- semantic image segmentation
- semantic net
- semantic primitive
- semantic region
- semantic region growing
- semantic scene segmentation
- semantic scene understanding
- semantic texton forest
- semantic video indexing
- semantic video search
- semi-supervised learning
- sensitivity
- sensor
- sensor fusion
- sensor modeling
- sensor motion compensation
- sensor motion estimation
- sensor network
- sensor path planning
- sensor placement determination
- sensor planning
- sensor position estimation
- sensor response
- sensor sensitivity
- sensor spectral sensitivity
- separability
- separable filter
- separable template
- set theoretic modeling
- shading
- shading correction
- shading from shape
- shadow
- shadow detection
- shadow type labeling
- shadow understanding
- shape
- shape class
- shape context
- shape decomposition
- shape descriptor
- shape from contour
- shape from defocus
- shape from focus
- shape from interreflection
- shape from line drawings
- shape from monocular depth cues
- shape from motion
- shape from multiple sensors
- shape from optical flow
- shape from orthogonal views
- shape from perspective
- shape from photo consistency
- shape from photometric stereo
- shape from polarization
- shape from scatter trace
- shape from shading
- shape from shadows
- shape from silhouette
- shape from specularity
- shape from structured light
- shape from texture
- shape from X
- shape from zoom
- shape grammar
- shape index
- shape magnitude class
- shape matching
- shape modeling
- shape moment
- shape prior
- shape recognition
- shape recovery
- shape representation
- shape template
- shape texture
- shapeme histogram
- sharp--unsharp masking
- shear transformation
- shock graph
- shock tree
- short baseline stereo
- shot noise
- shutter
- shutter control
- side-looking radar
- SIFT
- signal coding system
- signal processing
- signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)
- signature curve
- signature identification
- signature verification
- silhouette
- SIMD
- similarity
- similarity metric
- similarity transformation
- simple lens
- simulated annealing
- single-camera system
- single instruction multiple data (SIMD)
- single-layer perceptron network
- single-lens reflex camera
- single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
- singular value decomposition (SVD)
- singularity event
- sinusoidal projection
- situation graph tree
- situational awareness
- skeleton
- skeleton by influence zones (SKIZ)
- skeleton model
- skeletonization
- sketch-based image retrieval
- skew
- skew correction
- skew symmetry
- skin color analysis
- skin color model
- SKIZ
- SLAM
- slant
- slant normalization
- slice-based reconstruction
- sliding window
- slope density function
- small motion model
- smart camera
- smooth motion curve
- smooth surface
- smoothed local symmetries
- smoothing
- smoothing filter
- smoothness constraint
- snake
- SNR
- Sobel edge detector
- Sobel gradient operator
- Sobel kernel
- soft mathematical morphology
- soft morphology
- soft vertex
- solid angle
- source
- source geometry
- source image
- source placement
- space carving
- space curve
- space--time cuboid
- space--time descriptor
- space--time interest point
- space-variant processing
- space-variant sensor
- sparse coding
- sparse data
- sparse graphical model
- sparse representation
- sparsity problem
- spatial angle
- spatial averaging
- spatial domain smoothing
- spatial frequency
- spatial hashing
- spatial indexing
- spatial light modulator
- spatial matched filter
- spatial normal fields
- spatial occupancy
- spatial proximity
- spatial pyramid matching
- spatial quantization
- spatial reasoning
- spatial relation
- spatial resolution
- spatial statistics
- spatio-temporal analysis
- spatio-temporal relationship match
- spatio-temporal space
- special case motion
- specificity
- speckle
- speckle reduction
- SPECT
- spectral analysis
- spectral clustering
- spectral decomposition method
- spectral density function
- spectral distribution
- spectral factorization
- spectral filtering
- spectral frequency
- spectral graph partitioning
- spectral graph theory
- spectral reflectance
- spectral response
- spectrum
- specular reflection
- specularity
- sphere
- spherical
- spherical aberration
- spherical harmonic
- spherical mirror
- spherical spin image
- sphericity ratio
- spin image
- splash
- spline
- spline smoothing
- split and merge
- SPOT
- spot detection
- spur
- squared error clustering
- stadimetry
- standard illuminant
- state inference
- state space model
- state transition probability
- state vector
- stationary camera
- statistical behavior model
- statistical classifier
- statistical distribution
- statistical fusion
- statistical independence
- statistical insufficiency problem
- statistical learning
- statistical model
- statistical moment
- statistical pattern recognition
- statistical shape model
- statistical shape prior
- statistical texture
- steerable filter
- steganography
- step edge
- steradian
- stereo
- stereo camera calibration
- stereo convergence
- stereo correspondence problem
- stereo fusion
- stereo image rectification
- stereo matching
- stereo triangulation
- stereo vision
- stimulus
- stochastic gradient descent
- stochastic completion field
- stochastic process
- stratification
- streaming video
- stripe ranging
- strobe duration
- strobed light
- strong learner
- structural description
- structural pattern recognition
- structural texture
- structure and motion recovery
- structure factorization
- structure from motion
- structure from optical flow
- structure learning
- structure matching
- structure tensor
- structured light
- structured light source calibration
- structured light triangulation
- structured model
- structured SVM
- structuring element
- subband coding
- subcategory recognition
- subcomponent
- subcomponent decomposition
- subgraph isomorphism
- subjective contour
- subpixel edge detection
- subpixel interpolation
- subsampling
- subspace
- subspace analysis
- subspace learning
- subspace method
- subsurface scattering
- subtractive color
- superellipse
- supergrid
- superparamagnetic clustering
- superpixel
- superquadric
- superresolution
- supervised classification
- supervised learning
- support vector machine
- support vector ranking
- support vector regression
- SURF
- surface
- surface area
- surface boundary representation
- surface class
- surface completion
- surface continuity
- surface curvature
- surface description
- surface discontinuity
- surface fitting
- surface interpolation
- surface light field
- surface matching
- surface mesh
- surface model
- surface normal
- surface orientation
- surface patch
- surface reconstruction
- surface reflectance
- surface roughness
- surface roughness characterization
- surface segmentation
- surface shape classification
- surface shape discontinuity
- surface tracking
- surface triangulation
- surflet
- surveillance
- SUSAN corner finder
- SVD
- SVM
- Swendsen--Wang Algorithm
- swept object representation
- symbolic
- symbolic object representation
- symmetric axis transform (SAT)
- symmetry
- symmetry detection
- symmetry group
- symmetry line
- symmetry plane
- sync pulse
- syntactic pattern recognition
- syntactic texture description
- synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
- systolic array
- tabu search
- tangent angle function
- tangent plane
- tangent space
- tangential distortion (lens)
- target image
- target recognition
- target tracking
- task parallelism
- tattoo retrieval
- Tchebichef/Chebyshev moments
- tee junction
- telecentric optics
- telepresence
- template-based representation
- template image
- template matching
- template tracking
- temporal alignment
- temporal averaging
- temporal correlation}The similarity of two time-varying signals and the process of assessing the similarity. For example, the pattern of leg motion in a runner over one gait cycle is very similar to the pattern of other cycles and other runners; the dropping of a drinking glass is followed by the glass breaking when it hits the floor; the image noise at a pixel is often related to the noise measured from the next image frame. The similarity of consecutive \cvref{v
- temporal event analysis
- temporal model
- temporal offset
- temporal process
- temporal reasoning
- temporal representation
- temporal resolution
- temporal segmentation
- temporal stereo
- temporal synchronization
- temporal topology
- temporal tracking
- tensor product surface
- terrain analysis
- tessellated viewsphere
- test set
- tetrahedral spatial decomposition
- texel
- texon
- text analysis
- textel
- texton
- texton boost
- texture
- texture-based image retrieval
- texture boundary
- texture classification
- texture descriptor
- texture direction
- texture element (texel)
- texture energy measure
- texture enhancement
- texture field grouping
- texture field segmentation
- texture gradient
- texture grammar
- texture mapping
- texture matching
- texture model
- texture modeling
- texture motion
- texture orientation
- texture primitive
- texture recognition
- texture region extraction
- texture representation
- texture segmentation
- texture synthesis
- Theil--Sen estimator
- thermal imaging
- thermal noise
- thickening operator
- thin plate model
- thinning operator
- three-CCD camera
- three-view geometry
- threshold selection
- thresholding
- thresholding with hysteresis
- tie point
- TIFF
- tilt
- time delay index
- time derivative
- time-of-flight range sensor
- time series
- time to collision
- time to contact
- time to impact
- time-varying random process
- time-varying shape
- tolerance band algorithm
- tolerance interval
- Tomasi--Kanade factorization
- tomography
- tongue print
- top-down
- top-down model inference
- top-hat operator
- topic model
- topographic map
- topological property
- topological representation
- topology
- topology inference
- torsion
- torsion scale space (TSS)
- torus
- total least squares
- total variation
- total variation regularization
- tracking
- traffic analysis
- traffic sign recognition
- training set
- trajectory
- trajectory-based representation
- trajectory estimation
- trajectory transition descriptor
- transformation
- transformation matrix
- translation
- translation invariant
- translucency
- transmittance
- transparency
- transparent layer
- tree classifier
- tree search method
- triangulated model
- triangular norms
- triangulation
- trichromacy
- trifocal tensor
- trilinear constraint
- trilinear tensor
- trilinearity
- trimap
- trinocular stereo
- tristimulus theory of color perception
- tristimulus values
- true negative
- true positive
- truncated median filter
- tube camera
- tube sensor
- twist
- twisted cubic
- two-view geometry
- type I error
- type II error
- ultrasonic imaging
- ultrasound sequence registration
- ultraviolet (UV)
- umbilic
- umbra
- uncalibrated approach
- uncalibrated camera
- uncalibrated stereo
- uncalibrated vision
- uncertainty
- uncertainty representation
- under-fitting
- under-segmented
- undirected graph
- undirected graphical model (UGM)
- uniform distribution
- uniform illumination
- uniform noise
- unimodal
- uniqueness stereo constraint
- unit ball
- unit quaternion
- unit vector
- unitary transform
- universal image quality index (UIQI)
- unrectified
- unsharp operator
- unsupervised behavior modeling
- unsupervised clustering
- unsupervised feature selection
- unsupervised learning
- unusual behavior detection
- updating eigenspace
- upsampling
- USB camera
- validation
- validation set
- valley
- valley detection
- value quantization
- vanishing line
- vanishing point
- variable focus
- variance
- variational analysis
- variational approach
- variational calculus
- variational mean field method
- variational method
- variational model
- variational problem
- vector field
- vector quantization
- vehicle detection
- vehicle license (number) plate analysis
- vehicle tracking
- velocity
- velocity field
- velocity moment
- velocity smoothness constraint
- vergence
- vergence maintenance
- verification
- vertex
- video
- video analysis
- video annotation
- video camera
- video clip categorization
- video coding
- video compression
- video content analysis
- video corpus
- video deinterlacing
- video descriptor
- video deshearing
- video error concealment
- video indexing
- video key frame
- video mining
- video mosaic
- video quality assessment
- video rate system
- video restoration
- video retrieval
- video screening
- video search
- video segmentation
- video semantic content analysis
- video sequence
- video sequence synchronization
- video stabilization
- video stream
- video structure parsing
- video summarization
- video texture
- video thumbnail
- video transmission format
- vidicon
- view-based object recognition
- view combination
- view-dependent reconstruction
- view integration
- view interpolation
- view-invariant action recognition
- view selection
- view volume
- viewer-centered representation
- viewfield
- viewing space
- viewpoint
- viewpoint consistency constraint
- viewpoint-dependent representations
- viewpoint invariance
- viewpoint planning
- viewpoint selection
- viewsphere
- vignetting
- virtual bronchoscopy
- virtual endoscopy
- virtual reality
- virtual view
- viscous model
- viseme
- visibility
- visibility class
- visibility locus
- visible light
- VISIONS
- visual appearance
- visual attention
- visual behavior
- visual codeword
- visual context
- visual cortex
- visual cue
- visual event
- visual hull
- visual illusion
- visual industrial inspection
- visual inspection
- visual learning
- visual localization
- visual navigation
- visual rhythm
- visual routine
- visual salience
- visual search
- visual servoing
- visual surveillance
- visual tracking
- Viterbi algorithm
- vocabulary tree
- volume
- volume detection
- volume matching
- volume skeletons
- volumetric image
- volumetric reconstruction
- volumetric representation
- volumetric scattering
- von Kries hypothesis
- Voronoi cell
- Voronoi diagram
- voxel
- voxel carving
- voxel coloring
- voxmap
- VRML
- Wachspress coordinates
- walkthrough
- Walsh function
- Walsh transform
- Waltz line labeling
- warping
- watermark
- watershed segmentation
- watershed transform
- wavelength
- wavelet
- wavelet descriptor
- wavelet transform
- wavelet tree} {In text indexing, a structure that may be used to compress data and text. It works by converting a string into a balanced binary tree of bit vectors where 0 replaces half of the symbols and 1 replaces the other half. The tree is filtered and re-encoded so that the resulting ambiguity lessens and this sequence is repeated until no ambiguity is left. \cvcitepaper{FGM06}}
- weak calibration
- weak learner
- weak perspective
- weakly calibrated stereo
- weakly supervised learning
- wearable camera
- Weber's Law
- weighted least squares
- weighted walkthrough
- weld seam tracking
- white balance
- white noise
- whitening filter
- wide angle lens
- wide-area scene analysis (WASA)
- wide baseline stereo
- wide field of view
- width function
- Wiener filter
- window} {See \cvref{r
- window scanning} {Separating an image into systematic, adjacent and possibly overlapping \cvref{r
- windowing
- winged edge representation
- winner-takes-all
- wire frame representation
- within-class scatter matrix
- world coordinates
- Wyner--Ziv video coding
- X-ray
- X-ray CAT/CT
- XNOR operator
- XOR operator
- YARF
- yaw
- YCrCb
- YIQ
- YUV
- Zernike moment
- zero-crossing operator
- zero crossing of the Laplacian of a Gaussian
- zip code analysis
- zoom
- zoom lens
- Zucker--Hummel operator
- Zuniga--Haralick operator
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