Students and Colleagues,

These files are to support students and instructors in using the book 
Computer Vision by Shapiro and Stockman. They are supporting materials 
and are NOT intended to substitute for a hard copy of the text, which 
students and instructors should acquire. In providing these materials,
the authors make no warantees about their performance and maintenance
-- they are for educational purposes only.

These files will grow and will be improved over time. We invite your
comments toward this goal.


GCS, 5 July 2002

Supplementary materials are as follows:

  Figures:  These are figures for the text in either .jpg or .ps
            format. Figures are the property of those who have
            given permission for their use as is documented in the
            textbook. Anyone using these figures in a publication
            should appropriately cite the original source. If the
            figure or source is not given in the textbook, then
            the user must check with Shapiro and Stockman for
            clarification and/or permission.

  Projects: These are projects that students may do in a computer
            vision course or perhaps an independent study course
            covering some part of CV. The project files contain
            images and data that may not be available in the text.
            Some of these images have been drawn from the work of
            other CV colleagues in the field -- those are not the
            intellectual property of Shapiro and Stockman. Permission
            to publish these images cannot be assumed without first
            contacting Shapiro and Stockman.

  Programs: These are sample programs or program segments that should
            help students with CV programming. Also included are some
            lecture slides on computing with images.

            Most of the material is supplied by the authors; however,
            some of it has been contributed by others and may or may
            not have been modified.

            In using any program code, you have to take some responsibility
            in making it run on your system. In particular, updates to C++
            and differences between GNU and Visual C++ make it difficult
            to support all versions. Programs supplied by Stockman have
            been run under UNix and g++.