User:Papadim.G/Computer Vision Geometry Summary

Computer Vision Geometry Summary shows an organisation of the geometric and mathematical topics central to computer vision and image processing. This was originally proposed in the [CVonline] resource [cite: URL...].

Vision Geometry and Mathematics

1. Basic Representations
   1. Coordinate systems
      1. Cartesian coordinate system
      2. Cylindrical coordinate system
      3. Hexagonal coordinate system
      4. Log-Polar coordinate system
      5. Polar coordinate system
      6. Spherical coordinate system
   2. Digital topology
   3. Dual space
   4. Homogeneous coordinates
   5. Pose/Rotation/Orientation Representations
      1. Axis-angle representation
      2. Clifford algebra
      3. Euler angles
      4. Exponential map
      5. Quaternion/Dual quaternion
      6. Rotation matrix
      7. Pitch/Yaw/Roll
2. Distance metrics
   1. Affine
   2. Algebraic distance
   3. Bhattacharyya distance
   4. Chi-square test/metric
   5. Curse of dimensionality
   6. Earth mover's distance
   7. Euclidean distance
   8. Fuzzy intersection
   9. Hausdorff distance
   10. Jeffrey-divergence
   11. Kullback–Leibler divergence
   12. Mahalanobis distance
   13. Manhattan/City block distance
   14. Minkowski distance
   15. Procrustes analysis
   16. Procrustes average
   17. Quadratic form
   18. Specific structure similarity
       1. Curve similarity
       2. Region similarity
       3. Volume similarity
3. Elementary mathematics for Vision
   1. Coordinate systems/Vectors/Matrices/Derivatives/Gradients/Probability
   2. Derivatives in sampled images
4. Mathematical optimization
   1. Golden section search
   2. Lagrange multipliers/Constraint optimization
   3. Multi-Dimensional Optimization
      1. Derivative Free Search
      2. Global optimization
         1. Ant colony optimization
         2. Downhill simplex
         3. Genetic algorithms
         4. Graduated optimization
         5. Markov random field optimization
         6. Particle swarm optimization
         7. Simulated annealing
      3. Optimization with derivatives
         1. Levenberg–Marquardt
         2. Gradient descent/Quasi-Newton method
   4. Model selection
   5. Variational methods
5. Linear algebra for computer vision
   1. Eigenfunction
   2. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
   3. Principal Component and Related Approaches
      1. Dimensionality reduction
      2. Linear discriminant analysis
      3. Factor analysis
      4. Fisher's linear discriminant
      5. Independent component analysis
      6. Kernel Linear Discriminant Analysis
      7. Kernel principal component analysis
      8. Locality preserving projections
      9. Non-negative matrix factorization
      10. Optimal dimension estimation
      11. Principal component analysis/Karhunen–Loève theorem
      12. Principal geodesic analysis
      13. Probabilistic principal component analysis
      14. Rao–Blackwell theorem
   4. Sammon projection
   5. Singular value decomposition
   6. Structure tensor
6. Multi-sensor/Multi-view geometries
   1. 3D reconstruction
      1. 3D shape from 2D projections
      2. 3D reconstruction from multiple images/orthogonal views
      3. Slice-based reconstruction
   2. Affine and projective stereo
   3. Baseline stereo
      1. Narrow baseline stereo
      2. Wide baseline stereo
   4. Binocular stereo algorithms
      1. Cooperative stereo algorithms
      2. Binocular disparity
         1. Subpixel disparity
      3. Dense stereo matching approaches
      4. Dynamic programming (stereo)
      5. Feature matching stereo algorithms
      6. Gradient matching stereo algorithms
      7. Image rectification
         1. Planar rectification
         2. Polar rectification
      8. Log-polar stereo
      9. Multi-scale stereo algorithms
      10. Panoramic image stereo algorithms
      11. Phase matching stereo algorithms
      12. Region matching stereo algorithms
      13. Weakly/Uncalibrated stereo approaches
      14. Spherical stereo
   5. Epipolar geometry/Multi-view geometry
      1. Absolute conic
      2. Absolute quadric
      3. Epipolar geometry definitions
      4. Essential matrix
      5. Fundamental matrix
      6. Grassmannian space/Plücker embedding
      7. Homography tensor
      8. transfer and novel view synthesis
      9. Trifocal tensor
   6. Image-based modeling and rendering/Plenoptic modelling
   7. Image feature correspondence constraints
      1. Active stereo (feature correspondence)
      2. Disparity gradient Limit (feature correspondence)
      3. Disparity limit (feature correspondence)
      4. Epipolar constraint
      5. Feature contrast
      6. Feature orientation
      7. Grey-level similarity (feature correspondence)
      8. Lipschitz continuity
      9. Ordering (feature correspondence)
      10. Surface continuity
      11. Surface smoothness
      12. Uniqueness (feature correspondence)
      13. Viewpoint constraint
      14. View consistency constraint
   8. Multi-view matching
   9. Scene reconstruction/Surface interpolation
      1. Adaptive mesh refinement
      2. Constrained reconstruction
      3. Membrane/Thin plate models
      4. Texture synthesis/Texture mapping
      5. Triangulation
      6. Volumetric reconstruction
         1. Visual hull
   10. Trinocular (and more) stereo
7. Parameter Estimation
   1. Bayesian methods
   2. Constrained least squares
   3. Linear least squares
   4. Optimization
   5. Robust techniques
8. Probability and Statistics for Computer Vision
   1. Autoregression
   2. Bayes estimator
   3. Bayesian inference networks
   4. Causal models
   5. Correlation and dependence
   6. Covariance and Mahalanobis distance in Vision
   7. Dempster–Shafer theory
   8. Distribution mode analysis
   9. Normal distribution
   10. Heteroscedastic noise and HEIV regression
   11. Homoscedastic Noise
   12. Hidden Markov models
   13. Honest probabilities
   14. Statistical hypothesis testing/Analysis of variance
   15. Information theory
   16. Kalman filters
       1. Unscented Kalman filters
   17. Kernel canonical correlation
   18. Kernel regression
   19. Least mean square estimation and estimators/Least-Squares fitting
   20. Least median square estimation and estimators
   21. Log-normal distribution
   22. Logistic regression
   23. Maximum likelihood
   24. Model/Curve fitting
   25. Monte Carlo method
   26. Point process
   27. Markov chain/Markov chain Monte Carlo methods
   28. Markov random field
       1. Applications
       2. Conditional random fields
       3. Multi-level Markov random fields
       4. Optimization methods
          1. Approximate variational extremum
          2. Gibbs sampling
          3. Graduated nonconvexity
          4. Graph cuts in computer vision
          5. Iterated conditional modes
          6. "Modern" graph cut
          7. Simulated annealing
       5. Markov random field theory
   29. Mixture models and expectation-maximization (EM)
       1. Poisson mixture model
   30. Normalization
   31. Non-Parametric Methods
       1. Non-parametric statistics
       2. Kernel density estimation
   32. Poisson distribution
   33. Density estimation
   34. Random number generation
   35. Robust estimators
   36. Useful distributions
9. Projection geometries and transformations
   1. Affine projection model/Affine transformation
   2. Anamorphic projection/Catadioptric system
   3. Central projection
   4. Orthographic projection
   5. Homography
   6. Hierarchy of geometries
   7. Perspective projection
   8. Projective plane
   9. Projective space
   10. Real camera projection
   11. Similarity matrix
   12. Weak-perspective
10. Properties and invariants of projection
    1. absolute points
    2. Affine invariants
    3. Collineation
    4. Conics/Quadrics
    5. Coplanarity Invariants
    6. Cross-ratio
    7. Differential invariants
    8. Duality
    9. General projective invariants
    10. Integral Invariants
    11. Laguerre formula
    12. Pencils
    13. Quasi-Invariants
    14. Structural invariants
11. Relational shape descriptions
    1. Curves
       1. Adjacency/Connectedness
       2. Relative Curvature
       3. Relative Length
       4. Relative Orientation
       5. Separation
    2. Regions
       1. Adjacency/Connectedness
       2. Relative area/size
       3. Separation
    3. Surfaces
       1. Adjacency/Connectedness
       2. Relative area/size
       3. Relative orientation
       4. Separation
    4. Volumes
       1. Adjacency/Connectedness
       2. Relative orientation
       3. Relative volume/size
       4. Separation
12. Shape properties
    1. Geometric Morphometrics
    2. Kendall's Shape Space
    3. Points and Local Invariants
       1. Scale-invariant feature transform
    4. Curves and Curve Invariants
       1. Affine Arc length and Affine curvature
       2. Arc length
       3. Bending Energy
       4. Chord distribution
       5. Curvature, Torsion of a curve, Curvature radius
       6. Differential geometry, Frenet–Serret formulas
       7. Invariant Points: Inflections/Bitangents
    5. Image regions and region invariants
       1. Angularity ratio
       2. Area, Perimeter
       3. Boundary properties
       4. Center of mass, Centroid
       5. Convexity ratio
       6. Eccentricity, Circularity ratio, Elongatedness
       7. Elongation factor
       8. Euler number/Genus
       9. Extremal points
       10. Feret's diameter, Martin's diameter
       11. Fourier descriptors
       12. Minimum bounding rectangle
       13. Image moments
           1. Affine moments
           2. Bessel-Fourier moments
           3. Binary moments
           4. Color moments
           5. Eigenmoments
           6. Fourier-Mellin moment invariants
           7. Gaussian-Hermite moments
           8. Grey-level or texture moments
           9. Hahn moments
           10. Krawtchouk moments
           11. Legendre moments
           12. Orthogonal Moments: Pseudo-Zernike polynomials#Moments|Pseudo-Zernike moments]], Legendre moments
           13. Racah moments
           14. Tchebichef/Chebichev moments
           15. Velocity moments
           16. Zernike moments
       14. Orientation
       15. Sphericity ratio
       16. Rectangularity
       17. Rectilinearity
       18. Roundness ratio
       19. Topological descriptors
           1. Euler characteristic
       20. Wadell's circularity shape ratio
    6. Differential geometry of surfaces
       1. Apparent contour and local geometry
       2. Common shape classes and representations
          1. Cone representations
          2. Cyclide
          3. Cylinder representations
          4. Ellipsoid/Sphere Representations
          5. Thin plate spline\Thin plate splines
          6. Plane representations
          7. Polyhedra representations
          8. Quadric representations
          9. Torus representations
       3. Fundamental surface forms
       4. Gauge coordinates
       5. Hessian
       6. Laplace–Beltrami operator
       7. Metric determinant
       8. Principal curvature and directions and other local shape representations
          1. Deviation from flatness
          2. Gauss–Bonnet surface description
          3. Gaussian curvature
          4. Koenderink's shape classification
          5. Mean curvature
          6. Mean and gaussian curvature shape classification
          7. Minimal surface
          8. Parabolic points
          9. Ridges and Valleys
          10. Umbilics
       9. Quadratic variation
       10. Ricci flow
       11. Surface area
       12. Surface normals and tangent planes

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