Computer Vision News - April 2022

28 Computer Vision Book What can you tell us about your new book? MT: The book covers advanced computer vision methods, emphasizing machine and deep learning techniques applied to computer vision and imaging, particularly those that have become more frequent, common, interesting, and essential in the last five to ten years. There’s been a tremendous amount of progress in the field, and we felt it was the right time to have a book that was neither an introductory text nor a collection of very detailed research, but something in the middle that provides some depth across several important topics. RD: Indeed, we thought that it was important to emphasise principles and new methodologies rather than dwell excessively on details of ongoing research: in that way we should be able to help readers obtain a significantly deeper and longer term understanding of the subject. Who is the target audience for the book? The Editors: The book is aimed at people studying computer vision – graduates and undergraduates – and current researchers working in the field who want to look in more detail at an area they haven’t focused on much. Practitioners who wish to gain a better insight into specific areas of computer vision will find it helpful too. If a newcomer to the field has your book in their hand, what advice would you give them to best take advantage of it? MT: A great place to start is with the first chapter, written by Roy, which is an overview of the basic concepts of computer vision and sets the stage for the rest. After that, stand back and look at all the other topics. Decide which ones are most interesting to you. You may end up with two or three chapters. For each, start with the introductory sections and if you need more background on the topic follow the references that those bring up. Roy Davies and Matthew Turk are speaking to us about a new book they have co-edited: Advanced Methods and Deep Learning in Computer Vision . Roy Davies is Emeritus Professor of Computer Vision at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Matthew Turk is the president of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC), an independent philanthropically endowed academic computer science institute.