Digital Image Processing Using MATLAB(R) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Rafael C. Gonzalez, Richard E. Woods, Steven L. Eddins
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 76179
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 624
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 7 x 0.9
ISBN: 0130085197
Dewey Decimal Number: 006
EAN: 9780130085191
Publication Date: December 26, 2003
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Product Description
For Image and Computer Vision, Image Processing, and Computer Vision courses. This is the first text that provides a balanced treatment of image processing fundamentals and an introduction to software principles used in the practical application of image processing. A seamless integration of material from the leading text, Digital Image Processing by Gonzalez and Woods and the Image Processing Toolbox from Mathworks, Inc. This text works in the MATLAB computing environment; the Toolbox provides a stable, well-supported set of software tools capable of addressing a broad spectrum of applications in digital image processing. The major areas covered include intensity transformations, linear and nonlinear spatial filtering, filtering in the frequency domain, image restoration and registration, color image processing, wavelets, image data compression, morphological image processing, image segmentation, regions and boundary representation and description, and object recognition.
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The best of its kind. January 2, 2005
Christian Laforte (Montreal, Canada)
38 out of 39 found this review helpful
If you want to get up to speed on Matlab and plan to use it for image processing, this book is a must.
I have lots of experience in computer graphics and in programming languages like C++ and C#, but prior to reading this book I had never really used Matlab nor implemented complicated image processing algorithms. This book is a great introduction to both.
The book is divided in twelve chapters touching both low-level image processing (e.g. spatial filtering) and higher-level concepts required for computer vision, like image registration and segmentation. Gonzalez et al are talented writers, explaining relatively complicated concepts clearly and concisely, without getting lost in the mathematical details. People interested in the more theoretical aspects should (and probably already have) check their other book.
The only potential downside of this book is that it's definitely designed to be read sequentially, one chapter at a time. The matlab concepts are introduced piece by piece. For example, if you skip Chapter 5 (on image restoration, i.e. getting rid of noise) you may not realize that you missed the introduction to the image registration functions. Personally I liked this style (it added variety to a potentially dry subject), but a reader with less time to cover all of the matter may find this to be a problem.
Digital image processing using MATLAB September 2, 2004
Yoo Hyeon Joong (Korea)
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
I gave a DIP class last semester using this book. I found it provided the easiest way to make students acquainted with DIP. Before using this book, I tried Visual C++ for implementation. However, both of us (i.e., students and me) couldn't be satisfied, I guess. Now the implementation is easier than ever, and I can explain more about DIP itself to students.
Superb instructional book for my needs April 10, 2006
John Harpur (Trim, Meath, IRELAND)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I bought this book for two reasons (a) I needed an overview of IP and (b) I wanted to examine different pattern analysis algorithms with a practical twist. On both counts, as an non-IP researcher, I was very satisfied. The book is very well laid out, so well in fact that it would put to shame many of its rivals. It served my needs. I can't comment on whether it will meet the needs of a broader community. I would certainly recommend it based on my experience.
Practical and Useful January 10, 2006
B. Givens (Saline, MI)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book educates the reader in image processing and MATLAB. While I am experienced in both, I found the book to be an extrememly useful reference book for projects involving image compression and image representation. The book offered practical descriptions and useful code for computing the fast wavelet transform. It was especially useful in describing how the edges should treated. This is a big issue that other textbooks gloss over. I had never seen it described in a textbook, and it was described so well.
The color image processing chapter is excellent, and the image processing chapter is pretty good. Lots of explanation and code.
While the book stands alone, it can also be seen as a useful companion book to the more theoretical "Digital Imaging Processing" by Gonzalez and Woods (2nd edition). This is a different book even though it has close to the same name.
Applications to environmental Sciences March 14, 2008
Dr. Sigfredo Fuentes (Australia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book has been really helpful to write my own tools for image analysis, such as leaf area index estimations from digital images and microscopy imaging analysis.
I think that for people involved in image processing and analyisis, this book is a must.
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