TY - BOOK AU - Bovik,Ai TI - Essential guide to image processing SN - 9780123744579 (pbk.) U1 - 621.367 23 PY - 2009/// CY - Amsterdam PB - Elsevier KW - Image processing KW - Digital techniques N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Ch. 1. Introduction to Digital Image Processing -- Ch. 2. SIVA Image Processing Demos -- Ch. 3. Basic Gray Level Image Processing -- Ch. 4. Basic Binary Image Processing -- Ch. 5. Basic Tools for Image Fourier Analysis -- Ch. 6. Multiscale Image Decompositions and Wavelets -- Ch. 7. Image Noise Models -- Ch. 8. Color and Multispectral Image Representation and Display -- Ch. 9. Capturing Visual Image Properties with Probabilistic Models -- Ch. 10. Basic Linear Filtering with Application to Image Enhancement -- Ch. 11. Multiscale Denoising ot Photographic Images -- Ch. 12. Nonlinear Filtering for Image Analysis and Enhancement -- Ch. 13. Morphological Filtering -- Ch. 14. Basic Methods for Image Restoration and Identification -- Ch. 15. Iterative Image Restoration -- Ch. 16. Lossless Image Compression -- Ch. 17. JPEG and JPEG2000 -- Ch. 18. Wavelet Image Compression -- Ch. 19. Gradient and Laplacian Edge Detection -- Ch. 20. Diffusion Partial Differential Equations for Edge Detection -- Ch. 21. Image Quality Assessment -- Ch. 22. Image Watermarking: Techniques and Applications -- Ch. 23. Fingerprint Recognition -- Ch. 24. Unconstrained Face Recognition from a Single Image -- Ch. 25. How Iris Recognition Works -- Ch. 26. Computed Tomography -- Ch. 27. Computer-Assisted Microscopy -- Ch. 28. Towards Video Processing N2 - An introduction to the basic and intermediate concepts of image processing. It features such content as: statistical modeling of natural, anistropic diffusion, image quality and the developments in JPEG 2000. It provides coverage of: image watermarking, fingerprint recognition, face recognition and iris recognition and medical imaging. This comprehensive and state-of-the art approach to image processing gives engineers and students a thorough introduction, and includes full coverage of key applications: image watermarking, fingerprint recognition, face recognition and iris recognition and medical imaging. To help learn the concepts and techniques, the book contains a CD-ROM of 70 highly interactive visual demonstrations. Key algorithms and their implementation details are included, along with the latest developments in the standards ER -