EURO - ANTIK 2011

The extensive use of digital visual media in our everyday life and their inherent presence around us, urges for the development of smarter and more efficient approaches for modeling, analyzing, processing and communication of visual information. Machine vision techniques have gone so far and are able to perform tasks that one could only dream of a few years ago; thanks to smarter algorithms, large increase in processing power, storage capabilities and communication bandwidth available in today’s computers and networks. Nevertheless, they fall short of our expectations when compared to the ease with which the human visual system (HVS) deals with complex scenes analysis, processing and abstraction. Therefore, we are witnessing a growing interest in approaches inspired from the human perception for visual information modeling, analysis, processing and communication.