Information Theory Tools for Computer Graphics (Synthesis Lectures on Computer Graphics and Animation) - Softcover

Sbert, Mateu; Feixas, Miguel; Rigau, Jaume; Chover, Miguel; Viola, Ivan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1598299298 ISBN 13: 9781598299298

Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2009

Synopsis

Information theory (IT) tools, widely used in scientific fields such as engineering, physics, genetics, neuroscience, and many others, are also emerging as useful transversal tools in computer graphics. In this book, we present the basic concepts of IT and how they have been applied to the graphics areas of radiosity, adaptive ray-tracing, shape descriptors, viewpoint selection and saliency, scientific visualization, and geometry simplification. Some of the approaches presented, such as the viewpoint techniques, are now the state of the art in visualization. Almost all of the techniques presented in this book have been previously published in peer-reviewed conference proceedings or international journals.

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Review

“It is simply amazing, the amount of informative content that can be compressed into 130-odd pages of highly mathematical, well-illustrated, and well-organized lectures.” – Chaim Scheff for ACM Computing Reviews

Edition details

• Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1598299298
• ISBN 13: 9781598299298
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 166