examines the effective features that characterize static hand poses and introduces a unified framework to enforce both temporal and spatial constraints for hand parsing; proposes a new classifier architecture for real-time hand pose recognition and a novel hand segmentation and gesture recognition system.

Part I: Surveys.- 3D Depth Cameras in Vision: Benefits and Limitations of the Hardware.- A State-of-the-Art Report on Multiple RGB-D Sensor Research and on Publicly Available RGB-D Datasets.- Part II: Reconstruction, Mapping and Synthesis.- Calibration Between Depth and Color Sensors for Commodity Depth Cameras.- Depth Map Denoising via CDT-Based Joint Bilateral Filter.- Human Performance Capture Using Multiple Handheld Kinects.- Human Centered 3D Home Applications via Low-Cost RGBD Cameras.- Matching of 3D Objects Based on 3D Curves.- Using Sparse Optical Flow for Two-Phase Gas Flow Capturing with Multiple Kinects.- Part III: Detection, Segmentation and Tracking.- RGB-D Sensor-Based Computer Vision Assistive Technology for Visually Impaired Persons.- RGB-D Human Identification and Tracking in a Smart Environment.- Part IV: Learning-Based Recognition.- Feature Descriptors for Depth-Based Hand Gesture Recognition.- Hand Parsing and Gesture Recognition with a Commodity Depth Camera.- Learning Fast Hand Pose Recognition.- Real time Hand-Gesture Recognition Using RGB-D Sensor.

The combination of high-resolution visual and depth sensing, supported by machine learning, opens up new opportunities to solve real-world problems in computer vision.This authoritative text/reference presents an interdisciplinary selection of important, cutting-edge research on RGB-D based computer vision. Divided into four sections, the book opens with a detailed survey of the field, followed by a focused examination of RGB-D based 3D reconstruction, mapping and synthesis. The work continues with a section devoted to novel techniques that employ depth data for object detection, segmentation and tracking, and concludes with examples of accurate human action interpretation aided by depth sensors.Topics and features:Discusses the calibration of color and depth cameras, the reduction of noise on depth maps, and methods for capturing human performance in 3DReviews a selection of applications which use RGB-D information to reconstruct human figures, evaluate energy consumption, and obtain accurate action classificationPresents an innovative approach for 3D object retrieval, and for the reconstruction of gas flow from multiple Kinect camerasDescribes an RGB-D computer vision system designed to assist the visually impaired, and another for smart-environment sensing to assist elderly and disabled peopleExamines the effective features that characterize static hand poses, and introduces a unified framework to enforce both temporal and spatial constraints for hand parsingProposes a new classifier architecture for real-time hand pose recognition, and a novel hand segmentation and gesture recognition systemResearchers and practitioners working in computer vision, HCI and machine learning will find this to be a must-read text. The book also serves as a useful reference for graduate students studying computer vision, pattern recognition or multimedia.

Describes recent advances in RGB-D based computer vision algorithms, with an emphasis on advanced machine learning techniques for interpreting the RGBD information Covers a range of different techniques from computer vision, machine learning, audio, speech and signal processing, communications, artificial intelligence and media technology Includes contributions from leading researchers in this area, with strong industrial-research experience of the practical issues Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras