Digital Image Processing and Image Formation

This textbook provides students and users with the necessary knowledge to successfullyto successfully acquire and process image data. It is consistently taken into account that image acquisition and image processing are based on the same mathematical concepts. Great emphasis was placed to present the sometimes complex relationships both clearly and mathematically sound.The material in the 7th edition of this textbook, which has been successful since 1991, has been restructured.In line with the rapid development of image sensor technology, optics and image sensor technology, optics and the diverse methods of reconstructing the three-dimensional world from image data. The focus was placed on working out the basic concepts. This enables the reader tounderstand the initially confusing variety of image acquisition methods and learn how to use them optimally. Artificial intelligence methods have deliberately not been integrated into the book. Rather, this book contains the necessary knowledge about image acquisition and processing in order to apply machine learning methods to image analysis in the best possible way.

Bernd Jähne is senior professor at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) and the Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP) of Heidelberg University. From 2008 to 2017 he was coordinating director of the Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image processing (HCI), an industry-on-campus project of Heidelberg University and from 2008 to 2016 deputy director of the IWR. He is also founder and chair of the Heidelberg Image Processing Forum since 1995, chair of the EMVA 1288 standardization group since 2008, and vice president of the European Machine Vision Association from 2021 -2024. He is author of a several text books and handbooks on Digital Image Processing and Computer Vision published in German, English, and Russian language.