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Digital Image Processing (5th Edition) | 11.90MB | HF-FS-DF
(Berlin: Springer) | 585 pp | 2002 | Price £49.00 | ISBN 3540677542 | DJVU
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This is the fifth edition of this popular handbook. As was the case in previous editions the book is well presented over 500+ pages with nearly 250 figures, clear exposition of mathematical equations and high quality greyscale images.
The book is in four main parts. The first lays the foundations of the subject and gives a good introduction to the basic tools used in image processing such as random variables, probability density functions and a very sound section on image representation. The basics of digital filtering by convolution are also explained in this section of the book.
The second part of the book deals with image formation and preprocessing. As well as the more conventional material on image formation, e.g. detectors, basic optics etc, this section interestingly includes material on 3D imaging from structured light and tomography. The author is to be congratulated for including this important, but sadly often neglected, aspect of imaging.
Section three deals with feature extraction in a very competent, if rather conventional, fashion. All of the major techniques are covered including filtering, gradient methods, neighborhood processes etc. The inclusion of both motion extraction and texture analysis make this section more worthwhile.
The book's final part deals with the problems of image analysis. This includes interesting and useful treatments of inversion problems, morphological operations, shape descriptors etc.
In all there are some 20 chapters in the book. Each chapter concludes with a useful list of further reading. Overall the references given in the book are accessible and reasonably up to date.
The supporting CD offers the complete text of the book in electronic form and a copy of a general-purpose image processing package, which makes a useful tool.
An overall evaluation would be that this is an excellent and comprehensive review of digital image processing. While not an elementary text - the book requires a reasonably accomplished level of mathematical knowledge - it would be a excellent text for a final-year degree or Masters level module in the subject. It would also be a first-class introductory text for anybody new to research in this field. Finally the book would also be of value as a reference text for established workers in the field; its comprehensive nature and high quality references mean that it would be an excellent starting point for information on areas outside one's immediate specialty.
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