Image Processing and Analysis

Gain a firm understanding of image processing as you cover the major topics of the field using a balanced approach that progresses from simple explanations to more detailed descriptions within IMAGE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS. This easy-to-follow, accessible book emphasizes a basic, fundamental understanding of the classic algorithms in the field while also highlighting recent research results. You can grasp the subtle tradeoffs among different approaches as well as understand them in context with the latest developments in the field. Numerous full-color illustrations and detailed pseudocode bridge the gap between mathematical equations underlying the important concepts and real-world application of those concepts. This understanding makes it easier for you to program your own implementations of these algorithms. In addition, consistent notation throughout this edition makes it easier to follow the various concepts.

Table of Contents:
1. INTRODUCTION. Image processing and analysis. History and related fields. Sample applications. Image basics. Looking forward. Further reading. Problems. 2. FUNDAMENTALS OF IMAGING. Vision in nature. Image formation. Image acquisition. Other imaging modalities. A detailed look at electromagnetic radiation. Further reading. Problems. 3. POINT AND GEOMETRIC TRANSFORMATIONS. Simple geometric transformations. Graylevel transformations. Graylevel histograms. Multi-spectral transformations. Multi-image transformations. Change detection. Compositing. Interpolation. Warping. Further reading. Problems. 4. BINARY IMAGE PROCESSING. Morphological operations. Labeling regions. Computing distance in a digital image. Region properties. Skeletonization. Boundary representations. 5. SPATIAL-DOMAIN FILTERING. Convolution. Smoothing by convolving with a Gaussian. Computing the first derivative. Computing the second derivative. Nonlinear filters. Grayscale morphological operators. Further reading. Problems. 6. FREQUENCY-DOMAIN PROCESSING. Fourier transform. Discrete Fourier transform (DFT). Two-dimensional DFT. Frequency-domain filtering. Localizing frequencies in time. Discrete wavelet transform (DWT). Further reading. Problems. 7. EDGES AND FEATURES. Multiresolution processing. Edge detection. Approximating intensity edges with polylines. Feature detectors. Feature descriptors. Further reading. Problems. 8. COMPRESSION. Basics. Lossless compression. Lossy compression. Compression of videos. Further reading. Problems. 9. COLOR. Physics and psychology of color. Trichromacy. Designating colors. Linear color transformations. Color spaces. Further reading. Problems. 10. SEGMENTATION. Thresholding. Deformable models. Image segmentation. Graph-based methods. Further reading. Problems. 11. MODEL FITTING Fitting curves. Fitting point cloud models. Robustness to noise. Fitting multiple models. Further reading. Problems. 12. CLASSIFICATION. Fundamentals. Statistical pattern recognition. Generative methods. Discriminative methods. Further reading. Problems. 13. STEREO AND MOTION. Human stereopsis. Matching stereo images. Computing optical flow. Projective geometry. Camera calibration. Geometry of multiple views. Further reading. Problems.

About the Author :
Dr. Stan Birchfield conducts research and development at Microsoft® Corporation, working on various aspects of robotics and computer vision. Previously, he was an assistant professor, then associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Clemson University, where he spent a decade conducting research and teaching. He remains an adjunct faculty member at Clemson. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1999, an M.S. from Stanford in 1996, and a B.S. from Clemson in 1993. While at Stanford, his research was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and he was part of the team that won first place at the AAAI Mobile Robotics Competition of 1994. After graduating from Stanford, he spent four years as a research engineer at a startup company in Palo Alto, California. At Clemson he co-founded a startup that uses computer vision to automatically collect aggregate traffic parameters from live video feeds. Over the years he has worked with or consulted for various companies, including Sun Microsystems, SRI International, Canon, Microsoft, and Autodesk. Dr. Birchfield has authored or co-authored more than 70 publications in the areas of computer vision, stereo correspondence, visual tracking, spatial acoustics, and mobile robotics, and his open-source software has been used by thousands of researchers around the world.

Review :
"I love how the author is presenting the material. It really is easy to understand. It would be great for the students who are new to the topic of image processing. The figures (i.e. 4.3 and 4.5) are simply awesome. Very helpful to understand. The pseudocode also is clear enough for students to implement on their own without giving the entire code away. The book is truly excellent. Both for the students and instructors. The organization is very thoughtfully done. The flow of one subsection to next is very natural and easy for readers to build up the knowledge. The presentation of pseudo code is clear, consistent and very detailed. Readers should be able to implement in any language of their choice by following pseudo codes. Moreover, the author thought about all the details such as rounding between data types and covered them explicitly. These are the types of details that would really help especially students who would have otherwise had a hard time implementing." "This book style matches perfectly with our teaching style in our school. Our university hallmark is learn-by-doing philosophy. The author gives many algorithms with detailed pseudocode, which we can apply directly to practical problems." "The presentation has good balance between theories and examples. The author provides students with a good problem-solving methodology in the examples. Specifically, the author provides enough suggestions, hints, and solution techniques so that the examples clarify the information." "This textbook seems to address all my concerns, from the arrangement and coverage of the materials, to the presentation it uses to introduce, describe, and relate to each topic. I thought the author did an excellent job. I look forward to its publication."