Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields: Advances and Perspectives (Mathematics and Visualization) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540883770 ISBN 13: 9783540883777

Publisher: Springer, 2009

Synopsis

Visualisation and Processing of Tensor Fields provides researchers an inspirational look at how to process and visualize complicated 2D and 3D images known as tensor fields. Tensor fields are the natural representation for many physical quantities; they can describe how water moves around in the brain, how gravity varies arount the earth, or how materials are stressed and deformed. With its numerous color figures, this book helps the reader understand both the underlying mathematics and the applications of tensor fields.

About this title

Review

"This timely Springer monograph collects a total of 25 survey and research articles on the analysis, processing, and visualization of tensor fields, an area with increasing impact and visibility in contemporary imaging and medical image analysis.

Compared with many existing volumes of similar styles or missions, this collection has been carefully edited to yield a smooth and continuous flow of topics and techniques. The categorization into five self-contained parts has been enormously helpful for a generic reader to attain an organic view of the entire dynamic field.

This volume will be an invaluable research tool or information source for all readers who are interested in tensor processing and visualization, including, e.g., image processing experts, graphic and visualization engineers, medical imaging scientists, and radiologists, as well as graduate students who are pursuing a degree in the related research subjects."  (Jianhong Shen, Mathematical Reviews)

About the Author

Joachim Weickert is Full Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at
   Saarland University (Saarbr\"ucken, Germany) where he heads the Mathematical
   Image Analysis Group. He performs research in image processing, computer
   vision and scientific computing, focusing on techniques based on partial
   differential equations and variational methods. 

   Hans Hagen is heading the research group for Computer Graphics and
   Computer Geometry at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, and is
   Scientific Director of the research lab Intelligent Visualization and
   Simulation at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
   (DFKI). His research domains are geometric modeling and scientific
   visualization.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540883770
• ISBN 13: 9783540883777
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 393
• Editor: Laidlaw David H., Weickert Joachim