Digital Image Processing: PIKS Inside - Hardcover

Pratt, William K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471374075 ISBN 13: 9780471374077

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, 2001

Synopsis

A thoroughly updated edition of a bestselling guide to digital image processing, this book covers cutting-edge techniques for enhancing and interpreting digital images from different sources--scanners, radar systems, and digital cameras. A PIKS image processing library of executable files as well as digital versions of many of the pictures are provided via ftp to help apply the techniques discussed in the book.

About this title

About the Author

WILLIAM K. PRATT, PhD, has worked in imaging technology at the University of Southern California, Sun Microsystems, and, more recently, at Photon Dynamics, Inc. He is the author of numerous papers in the fields of communications and signal processing and is the holder of several patents for image coding and image processing systems. He was one of the primary developers of the Programmer's Imaging Kernel System (PIKS) utilized in this volume.

From the Back Cover

A newly updated and revised edition of the classic introduction to digital image processing

The Third Edition of Digital Image Processing provides a complete introduction to the field and includes new information that updates the state of the art.

It offers coverage of new topics and includes interactive computer display imaging examples and computer programming exercises that illustrate the theoretical content of the book. These exercises can be implemented using the Programmer's Imaging Kernel System (PIKS) application program interface included on the accompanying CD-ROM.

Suitable as a text for students or as a reference for practitioners, this new edition provides a comprehensive treatment of these vital topics:
* Characterization of continuous images
* Image sampling and quantization techniques
* Two-dimensional signal processing techniques
* Image enhancement and restoration techniques
* Image analysis techniques
* Software implementation of image processing applications

The Third Edition of Digital Image Processing updates the advances made since the last edition and cites a variety of sources to provide thorough coverage of this vital field in a coherent and well-organized style.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471374075
• ISBN 13: 9780471374077
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 762