The Essential Guide to Image Processing

• A complete introduction to the basic and intermediate concepts


• A CD-ROM contains 70 highly interactive demonstration programs with user friendly interfaces


• Up-to-date content, including statistical modeling of natural, anistropic diffusion, image quality, and the latest developments in JPEG 2000

This comprehensive and state-of-the-art methodology provides an excellent and comprehensive approach to the image of watermarking, fingerprint recognition, recognition and medical imaging. This is a CD-ROM of 70 highly interactive visual demonstrations. Key algorithms and their implementation details.

"This book introduces students to PhD students. and beyond. " - Prof. Jean-Philippe Thiran, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

"Al Bovik's compendium proceeds systematically from foundations to today's research frontiers." Professor Bovik, a very inspired researcher, has been invited to participate in the field. guide. " - Prof. Bernd Girod, Stanford University, USA

"This book is informative, easy to read with great examples, and allows great flexibility in tailoring a course on image processing." - Prof. Pamela Cosman, University of California, San Diego, USA

* A complete and modern introduction to edited and written in the field
* An essential reference for all types of engineers working on image processing applications
* A CD-ROM contains 70 highly interactive demonstration programs with user friendly interfaces
* Up-to-date content, including statistical modeling, and anisotropic diffusion, image quality and the latest developments in JPEG 2000

Introduction; The SIVA System; Basic Gray-Level Image Processing; Basic Binary Image Processing; Basic Tools for Image Fourier Analysis; Multiscale Decompositions and Wavelets; Image Noise Models; Color Images; Statistical Modeling of Natural Images; Linear Image Filtering & Enhancement; Wavelet Image Filtering; Nonlinear Image Filtering; Morphological Filtering; Basic Image Restoration and Identification; Basic Lossless Image Coding; JPEG and JPEG2000; Wavelet Image Compression; Basic Edge Detection; Anisotropic Diffusion Edge Detection; Image Quality Assessment; Image Watermarking; Fingerprint Recognition; Face Recognition; Iris Recognition; Medical imaging; Visual Fixations and Visual Attention; Towards Video Processing