Table of Acronyms

This table lists the main acronyms used in this book.

Acronym Meaning
a.a. almost all
AD Anno Domini
a.e. almost everywhere
a.k.a. also known as
a.s. almost surely
ACF AutoCorrelation Function
ASF Alternate Sequential Filter
BAC Bearing Area Curve
BC Before Christ
BRDF Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function
BV Bounded Variation
BVF Boundary Vector Field
BVP Boundary Value Problem
cdf cumulated (probability) distribution function
CDT Chamfer Distance Transformation
CE Convolution Equation
CIE Commission Internationale de l’Éclairage
CLIP Classical Linear Image Processing
CLT Central Limit Theorem
CSR Complete Spatial Randomness
CWT Continuous Wavelet Transformation
DBC Differential Box-Counting
DCT Discrete Cosine Transformation
DFT Discrete Fourier Transformation
DoG Difference of Gaussian
DST Discrete Sine Transformation
DT Distance Transformation
DVD Dirichlet–Voronoi’s diagram
DWT Discrete Wavelet Transformation
EDT Euclidean Distance Transformation
eEDT exact Euclidean Distance Transformation
EM Expectation Maximization
ENO Essentially Non-Oscillatory
EVT Extreme Value Theory
f.a.a. for almost all
FBP Free Boundary Problem
FFT Fast Fourier Transformation
FMM Fast Marching Method
FoV Field of View
GLIP General Linear Image Processing
GRF Gibbs Random Field
GRGTF Gaussian Random Gray-Tone Field
GiRGTF Gibbs’ Random Gray-Tone Field
H Homomorphic
HJE Hamilton–Jacobi’s ...

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