PART 2 Intermediate-Level Vision

Intermediate-level image analysis is concerned with obtaining abstract information about images, starting with the images themselves. At this stage we are no longer interested in converting one image into another, as in the subject of image processing. In fact, intermediate-level processing was already being developed in parts of Chapter 7. However, what is special about Part 2 is that intermediate-level analysis is investigated for its own sake, in particular with the aid of transform methods that have been designed systematically for the purpose.

The chapters in Part 2 largely result in abstract information on the positions and orientations of various image features: they do not aim to provide real-world data, ...

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