Digital Image Processing

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Foundation

   1. Applications and Tools

      Pages 3-29

   2. Image Representation

      Pages 31-80

   3. Random Variables and Fields

      Pages 81-104

   4. Neighborhood Operations

      Pages 105-134

   5. Multiscale Representation

      Pages 135-153

3. Image Formation and Preprocessing

   1. Quantitative Visualization

      Pages 157-187

   2. Image Formation

      Pages 189-215

   3. 3-D Imaging

      Pages 217-242

   4. Digitization, Sampling, Quantization

      Pages 243-255

   5. Pixel Processing

      Pages 257-295

4. Feature Extraction

   1. Averaging

      Pages 299-330

   2. Edges

      Pages 331-357

   3. Simple Neighborhoods

      Pages 359-396

   4. Motion

      Pages 397-434

   5. Texture

      Pages 435-446

5. Image Analysis

   1. Segmentation

      Pages 449-462

   2. Regularization and Modeling

      Pages 463-500

   3. Morphology

      Pages 501-514

   4. Shape Presentation and Analysis

      Pages 515-532

The sixth edition of this worldwide used textbook was thoroughly - vised and extended. Throughout the whole text you will ?nd numerous improvements, extensions, and updates. Above all, I would like to draw your attention to two major changes. Firstly, the whole textbook is now clearly partitioned into basic and advanced material in order to cope with the ever-increasing ?eld of di- talimageprocessing. Themostimportantequationsareputintoframed boxes. The advanced sections are located in the second part of each chapter and are marked by italic headlines and by a smaller typeface. In this way, you can ?rst work your way through the basic principles of digital image processing without getting overwhelmed by the wealth of the material. You can extend your studies later to selected topics of interest. The second most notable extension are exercises that are now - cluded at the end of each chapter. These exercise help you to test your understanding, train your skills, and introduce you to real-world image processing tasks. The exercises are marked with one to three stars to indicate their di?culty. An important part of the exercises is a wealth of interactive computer exercises, which cover all topics of this te- book. These exercises are performed with the image processing so- ware heurisko® (http://www. heurisko. de), which is included on the accompanying CD-ROM. In this way you can get own practical expe- ence with almost all topics and algorithms covered by this book.

• Digital imaging processing
• Textbook
• image analysis
• image processing
• image processing system
• image sequences
• pattern recognition
• stereoscopy

• Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

  Bernd Jähne

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