Handbook of Image and Video Processing (Communications,...

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 1384 pages
• Published by: Academic Press
• Edition: 2nd Edition June 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0121197921
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0121197926
• Book Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.5 x 2.8 inches
• Weighs: 7.8 pounds

P.N.T. Wells, Centre for Physics and Engineering Research in Medicine, Bristol General Hospital, U.K. (in Physiological Measurement, 22:1, July 2001)
"monumental assignment with spectacular success. If you are interested in image and video processing, you must have a copy." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Review
this book is a goldmine of informationthere is no doubt you will be riveted to its pages, at least until the third edition is released.
- Dan Winter, APC, Jan. 2006

great use of pictures, diagrams and graphs to lead the reader carefully through the fundamental concepts such as sampling, quantization, image aliasing, grey-scale and binary processing.
- Christine Connolly, Associate Editor of Sensor Review

Reader Reviews
There is a 2nd edition of this book that was published in July 2005, so all reviews earlier than that are referring to the first edition. Regardless, the second edition of this book is just as good as the first. There are many texts that do a good job of covering image processing, but few do such a good job of covering all of the aspects of video processing - motion detection and estimation, video enhancement and restoration, and video segmentation. There is an entire section on video compression which discusses the H.261 standard, wavelets and video compression, object-based video coding, and the various MPEG standards. There are also articles on video indexing and retrieval and a unified framework for video browsing and retrieval. In the area of image processing, there is much good information here, but the basics are better explained in "Digital Image Processing" by Gonzales and Woods. Once you master that book, this makes a good secondary reference on image processing. Although this book does go over some image processing basics, it is better at explaining more advanced concepts such as multiframe image restoration, wavelet denoising, 3D shape reconstruction from multiple views, and statistical methods for image segmentation. There are many bad books out there that are collections of articles, but don't let that scare you off. This really is a collection of very good articles published together in a coherent fashion. There are plenty of equations, example images, and instructive figures in the articles to help explain each concept. Highly recommended. Comment | | (Report this)