This modern, self-contained textbook provides an accessible introduction to the field from the perspective of a practicing programmer, supporting a detailed presentation of the fundamental concepts and techniques with practical exercises and fully worked out implementation examples. This much-anticipated 3rd edition of the definitive textbook on digital image processing has been completely revised and expanded with new content, improved illustrations and teaching material.
Topics and features:
Contains new chapters on fitting of geometric primitives, randomized feature detection (RANSAC), and maximally stable extremal regions (MSER)
Includes exercises for most chapters and provides additional supplementary materials and software implementations at an associated website
Uses ImageJ for all examples, a widely used open source imaging environment that can run on all major platforms
Describes each solution in a stepwise manner in mathematical form, as abstract pseudocode algorithms, and as complete Java programs that can be easily ported to other programming languages
Presents suggested outlines for a one- or two-semester course in the preface
Advanced undergraduate and graduate students will find this comprehensive and example-rich textbook will serve as the ideal introduction to digital image processing. It will also prove invaluable to researchers and professionals seeking a practically focused self-study primer.
Dr. Wilhelm Burger is an emeritus of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria at
Hagenberg, where he served as Head of the Digital Media degree programs at the School of
Informatics, Communications and Media.
Dr. Mark J. Burge is the Senior Advisor for Artificial Intelligence at the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, Washington, DC, USA. His other publications include the Handbook of Iris
Recognition.
