Handbook of Image and Video Processing (Communications, Networking and Multimedia) From Academic Press

Product Description

The Handbook of Image and Video Processing contains a comprehensive and highly accessible presentation of all essential mathematics, techniques, and algorithms for every type of image and video processing used by scientists and engineers. The timely volume will provide both the novice and the seasoned practitioner with the necessary information and skills to be able to develop algorithms and applications for multimedia, digital imaging, digital video, telecommunications, and World Wide Web industries.
Handbook of Image and Video Processing will also serve as a textbook for courses such as digital image processing, digital image analysis, digital video, video communications, multimedia, and biomedical image processing in the departments of electrical and computer engineering and computer science.

* No other resource contains the same breadth of up-to-date coverage
* Contains over 100 example algorithm illustrations
* Contains a series of extremely accessible tutorial chapters
* Indispensible for researchers in telecommunications, internet applications, multimedia, and nearly every branch of science
Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #1115996 in Books
Published on: 2000-05-31
Number of items: 1
Binding: Hardcover
891 pages
Editorial Reviews

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."

Review
"Al Bovik has discharged a monumental assignment with spectacular success. If you are interested in image and video processing, you must have a copy."

--P.N.T. Wells, Centre for Physics and Engineering Research in Medicine, Bristol General Hospital, U.K. (in Physiological Measurement, 22:1)

Review
"Al Bovik has discharged a monumental assignment with spectacular success. If you are interested in image and video processing, you must have a copy."

--P.N.T. Wells, Centre for Physics and Engineering Research in Medicine, Bristol General Hospital, U.K. (in Physiological Measurement, 22:1)
Customer Reviews

Spectacular Book on Image processing
This is the book to have on the subject! It covers almost any aspect that you can think of in image/video processing. This is a MATH intensive book and it will not tell you how to directly implement any of its concepts in code. The author assumes that the reader will be able to do this on there own. Topics are very well explained, but sometimes I needed to reread a topic 3 or 4 times and go over the math a couple times to fully understand. Great book to have as an encyclopedia like resource on the shelf.

Great reference for methods of image and video processing
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.


Outstanding Book !
This book is just GREAT.
It covers almost every single ascpect of image and video processing. Everything is in deep and very good explained. A lot of before-and-after example pictures (important ones in color) are provided too. But beware. You need a fairly good understanding of math to read the book. It is not intended to explain how to use Photoshop, but rather how to write your own ;-)
This book is not a read-along book. Sometimes you have to read a section 2 or 3 times to understand it.
I think sometimes a good Snippet of C-Code would help to understand, but this is acceptable.
Again: A outstanding book, which fully covers all my needs.
The price of 100 us$ is ok, because it's a lot of a book...