Digital Image Processing: PIKS Inside

A thoroughly updated edition of a bestselling guide to digital image processing, this book covers cutting-edge techniques for enhancing and interpreting digital images from different sources—scanners, radar systems, and digital cameras. A PIKS image processing library of executable files as well as digital versions of many of the pictures are provided via ftp to help apply the techniques discussed in the book.

Extensive revision of the first edition. Over 50% of the material is new or revised, and much of the new material covers image analysis, an area of the field in which significant breakthroughs in research have been made.

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.