Perceptual Digital Imaging Methods and Applications

Visual perception is a complex process requiring interaction between the receptors in the eye that sense the stimulus and the neural system and the brain that are responsible for communicating and interpreting the sensed visual information. This process involves several physical, neural, and cognitive phenomena whose understanding is essential to design effective and computationally efficient imaging solutions. Building on the research advances in computer vision, image and video processing, neuroscience, and information enginee ring, perceptual digital imaging has become an important and rapidly developing research field. It greatly enhances the capabilities of traditional imaging methods, and numerous commercial products capitalizing on its principles have already appeared in divergent market applications, including emerging digital photography, visual communication, multimedia, and digital entertainment applications