Fundamentals of digital image processing

COMPUTER

VISION,

GRAPHICS,

AND

IMAGE

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Edward R. Dougherty Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1987. x + 258 pp.

Image Processing.

and Charles R.

This is an elementary introduction to image processing. The Contents include: Image-processing operations; Gray-level processing (thresholding, smoothing, histograms, and co-occurrence matrices, histogram equalization); Edge detection (gradient-type operators only); Morphology; Topological operations (vertical tracking, region growing, curve filling, template matching); Transform techniques; Imaging architectures (data-flow, systolic, wavefront array). There are no references. Fundamentals

of Digital Image Processing.

Anil K. Jain. Prentice-Hall,

Engle-

wood Cliffs, NJ, 1989, xxi + 569 pp. A major text by a (sadly, recently deceased) major figure in the field, Professor A. K. Jain of the University of California, Davis. Contents: Introduction; Twodimensional systems and mathematical preliminaries; Image perception; Image sampling and quantization; Image transforms; Image representation by stochastic models; Image enhancement; Image filtering and restoration; Image analysis and [2D, static] computer vision; Image reconstruction from projections; Image data compression. There are nearly 200 exercises and nearly 400 references.

400 0734-189X/89$3.00 Copyright 0 1989 by Academic Press, Inc. All rights of reproduction in any form renewed