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This book has evolved from the author’s course on personal imaging taught at the University of Toronto, since fall 1998. It also presents original material from the author’s own experience in inventing, designing, building, and using wearable computers and personal imaging systems since the early 1970s. The idea behind this book is to provide the student with the fundamental knowledge needed in the rapidly growing field of personal imaging. This field is often referred to colloquially as wearable computing, mediated (or augmented) ‘reality,’ personal technologies, mobile multimedia, and so on. Rather than trying to address all aspects of personal imaging, the book places a particular emphasis on the fundamentals. New concepts of image content are essential to multimedia communications. Human beings obtain their main sensory information from t