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Image Processing

Principles and Applications

Tinku Acharya author Ajoy K Ray author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc

Published:7th Oct '05

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This book offers a thorough exploration of image processing techniques, from basic principles to advanced applications, making it essential for both students and professionals. Image Processing provides practical insights and theoretical foundations.

The book Image Processing serves as a comprehensive guide for both beginners and advanced practitioners in the field of image processing and compression. It meticulously covers a wide array of topics, starting from fundamental principles and advancing to sophisticated applications. Readers will find a wealth of information on image transformation techniques, such as wavelet transformations, alongside critical discussions on image enhancement and restoration methods, including noise modeling and filtering techniques.

Moreover, Image Processing delves into segmentation schemes and the classification and recognition of objects within images. It provides insights into texture and shape analysis techniques, as well as fuzzy set theoretical approaches, which are crucial for modern image processing tasks. The book also explores content-based image retrieval and image mining, highlighting their importance in the digital age.

In addition to theoretical discussions, the book features practical problems and solutions at the end of each chapter, allowing readers to apply what they have learned. It also includes bibliographies for further research into specialized topics. Overall, Image Processing is an invaluable resource for students and professionals in computer science, wireless and multimedia communications, and engineering, making complex concepts accessible through extensive examples and illustrative figures.

"The avowed aim of this book is to describe both modern and older techniques in image processing in an introductory textbook. This is a very real need, and this book is certainly useful for this purpose…" (Computing Reviews.com, December 20, 2005)

"…suitable for use as a text in a formal setting, or for the individual…" (Books-On-Line.com)

ISBN: 9780471719984

Dimensions: 241mm x 164mm x 26mm

Weight: 742g

452 pages