Glossary of terms and abbreviations
This page serves three purposes. First, it contains a list
of keywords to help you locate individual topics in this handbook.
Second, it contains pronunciations and/or definitions for
selected items of computer vision jargon. Third, it provides
expansions of common abbreviations.
- AFOSR: Air Force Office of Scientific Research (US)
- AI: Artificial Intelligence (used in many contexts)
- AIJ: Artificial Intelligence (a journal)
- ALVEY: a former British funding program [details of name?]
- ARPA: Advanced Research Projects Agency (same as DARPA)
- ASSP: IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
- BMVC: British Machine Vision Conference
- CGIP: Computer Graphics and Image Processing (later called CVGIP, CVGIP:
Image Understanding, and CVIU, in that order)
- CISE: (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and
Engineering
- CVGIP: Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (a later title for
CVIP)
- CVIU: Computer Vision and Image Understanding (a later title for CVGIP)
- CVPR: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (same as ARPA)
- DFT : Discrete Fourier Transform
- ECCV: European Conference on Computer Vision
- ESPRIT: a current European funding program
- FFT : Fast Fourier Transform
- FIR: finite impulse response
- Fourier Transform
- frequency domain techniques
- generating function: a device for helping solve recurrence
relations, such as those specifying the running time of algorithms,
see the Sedgewick and Flajolet book on the
algorithms page
- Hartley Transform
- Hough Transform: pronounced [h uh f]
- IAPR: International Association for Pattern Recognition
- ICCV: International Conference on Computer Vision
- IEE: A British Engineering Society [details of name?]
- IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- IIR: infinite impulse response
- IJCV: International Journal of Computer Vision
- IJRR: International Journal of Robotics Research
- impulse response
- IRIS: (NSF) Robotics and Machine Intelligence Program
- IU: Image Understanding (a DARPA workshop)
- IUE: (DARPA) Image Understanding Environment
- IVC: Image and Vision Computing
- JOSA: Journal of the Optical Society of America
- LPC: Linear Predictive Coding, a technique for compressing
speech signals
- NSF: National Science Foundation
- ONR: Office of Naval Research (US)
- PAMI: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- principal component analysis: see multivariate analysis
on the statistics page
- quadrature filter
- RMS: Root Mean Squared
- sampling theorem
- SMC: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
- SPIE: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
- SVG: Singular Value Decomposition, a technique from
linear algebra
- VQ: Vector Quantization, a method of compressing speech or images.
- WACV: IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision
- WCV: IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision
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