Image Processing, Analysis and Machine Vision

✍ Scribed by Milan Sonka PhD, Vaclav Hlavac PhD, Roger Boyle DPhil, MBCS, CEng (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 579
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Image Processing, Analysis and Machine Vision represent an exciting part of modern cognitive and computer science. Following an explosion of inter­ est during the Seventies, the Eighties were characterized by the maturing of the field and the significant growth of active applications; Remote Sensing, Technical Diagnostics, Autonomous Vehicle Guidance and Medical Imaging are the most rapidly developing areas. This progress can be seen in an in­ creasing number of software and hardware products on the market as well as in a number of digital image processing and machine vision courses offered at universities world-wide. There are many texts available in the areas we cover - most (indeed, all of which we know) are referenced somewhere in this book. The subject suffers, however, from a shortage of texts at the 'elementary' level - that appropriate for undergraduates beginning or completing their studies of the topic, or for Master's students - and the very rapid developments that have taken and are still taking place, which quickly age some of the very good text books produced over the last decade or so. This book reflects the authors' experience in teaching one and two semester undergraduate and graduate courses in Digital Image Processing, Digital Image Analysis, Machine Vision, Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Robotics at their respective institutions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-12
The digitized image and its properties....Pages 13-41
Data structures for image analysis....Pages 42-55
Image pre-processing....Pages 56-111
Segmentation....Pages 112-191
Shape representation and description....Pages 192-254
Object recognition....Pages 255-315
Image understanding....Pages 316-372
3D Vision....Pages 373-421
Mathematical morphology....Pages 422-442
Linear discrete image transforms....Pages 443-457
Image data compression....Pages 458-476
Texture....Pages 477-506
Motion analysis....Pages 507-542
Back Matter....Pages 543-555

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)