Graphics Programming, Image Processing, Digital & Video Photography Techniques

Digital Image Processing: PIKS Inside

Name: Digital Image Processing: PIKS Inside
Author: William K. Pratt
ISBN: 9780471018889

by William K. Pratt

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Overview

Today, image processing has become a vital, cost-effective technology in a host of applications. This Second Edition covers these new developments in this dynamic field. Five sections explore the characterization of continuous images, image sampling and quantization techniques along with the mathematical representation of discrete images, two-dimensional signal processing techniques, image enhancement and restoration techniques and image analysis.

About the Author, William K. Pratt

WILLIAM K. PRATT, PhD, has worked in imaging technology at the University of Southern California, Sun Microsystems, and, more recently, at Photon Dynamics, Inc. He is the author of numerous papers in the fields of communications and signal processing and is the holder of several patents for image coding and image processing systems. He was one of the primary developers of the Programmer's Imaging Kernel System (PIKS) utilized in this volume.