Foundations and Trends® in Computer Graphics and Vision

Volume 7, issue 4

Modeling and Simulation of Skeletal Muscle for Computer Graphics: A Survey

Muscles provide physiological functions to drive body movement and anatomically characterize body shape, making them a crucial component of modeling animated human figures. Substantial effort has been devoted to developing computational models of muscles for the purpose of increasing realism and acc...
Volume 7, issue 2–3

Decision Forests: A Unified Framework for Classification, Regression, Density Estimation, Manifold Learning and Semi-Supervised Learning

This review presents a unified, efficient model of random decision forests which can be applied to a number of machine learning, computer vision, and medical image analysis tasks.Our model extends existing forest-based techniques as it unifies classification, regression, density estimation, manifold...
Volume 7, issue 1

Full-Reference Image Quality Metrics: Classification and Evaluation

The wide variety of distortions that images are subject to during acquisition, processing, storage, and reproduction can degrade their perceived quality. Since subjective evaluation is time-consuming, expensive, and resource-intensive, objective methods of evaluation have been proposed. One type of