Book review: PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION AND VISUAL RECOGNITION by David G. Lowe (Kluwer Academic Publishers)

Perceptual organization is an important but poorly explored topic in computer vision. It is therefore gratifying to see the work of one of the principal promulgators, of the role perceptual organization as a key concept in vision, available in book form. The book summarizes research conducted by David Lowe, over a six year period, first as a graduate student at Stanford University and later on the SCERPO vision system at the Courant Institute of Mathematics at New York University. SCERPO is an acronym for Spatial Correspondence, Evidential Reasoning, and Perceptual Organization, which also are the three major topics addressed by the book.