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mal book editor, Vladimir Kolmogorov, who contributed Appendix B.5.5 on linear program-
ming techniques for MRF inference, Daniel Scharstein, Richard Hartley, Simon Baker, Noah
Snavely, Bill Freeman, Svetlana Lazebnik, Matthew Turk, Jitendra Malik, Alyosha Efros,
Michael Black, Brian Curless, Sameer Agarwal, Li Zhang, Deva Ramanan, Olga Veksler,
Yuri Boykov, Carsten Rother, Phil Torr, Bill Triggs, Bruce Maxwell, Jana Koˇ seck´ a, Eero Si-
moncelli, Aaron Hertzmann, Antonio Torralba, Tomaso Poggio, Theo Pavlidis, Baba Vemuri,
Nando de Freitas, Chuck Dyer, Song Yi, Falk Schubert, Roman Pflugfelder, Marshall Tap-
pen, James Coughlan, Sammy Rogmans, Klaus Strobel, Shanmuganathan, Andreas Siebert,
Yongjun Wu, Fred Pighin, Juan Cockburn, Ronald Mallet, Tim Soper, Georgios Evangelidis,
Dwight Fowler, Itzik Bayaz, Daniel O’Connor, and Srikrishna Bhat. Shena Deuchers did a
fantastic job copy-editing the book and suggesting many useful improvements and Wayne
Wheeler and Simon Rees at Springer were most helpful throughout the whole book pub-
lishing process. Keith Price’s Annotated Computer Vision Bibliography was invaluable in
tracking down references and finding related work.
If you have any suggestions for improving the book, please send me an e-mail, as I would
like to keep the book as accurate, informative, and timely as possible.
Lastly, this book would not have been possible or worthwhile without the incredible sup-
port and encouragement of my family. I dedicate this book to my parents, Zdzisław and
Jadwiga, whose love, generosity, and accomplishments have always inspired me; to my sis-
ter Basia for her lifelong friendship; and especially to Lyn, Anne, and Stephen, whose daily
encouragement in all matters (including this book project) makes it all worthwhile.

Lake Wenatchee
August, 2010