Digital Image Processing with Application to Digital Cinema [Paperback]

KS Thyagarajan (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0240807294 | ISBN-13: 978-0240807294 | Publication Date: January 2, 2006 | Edition: 1

With crystal clarity, this book conveys the most current principles in digital image processing, providing both the background theory and the practical applications to various industries, such as digital cinema, video compression, and streaming media.

* Learn the role of human vision in image visualization
* Contains the MATLAB codes used to generate most of the figures and tables listed in the book, as well as a few MATLAB projects
* Case studies though out illustrate the practical application of the theory

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Book Description

Learn how to design image processing and video compression systems for applications such as digital cinema, medical imaging, and video conferencing.

About the Author

K.S. Thyagarajan is a researcher with Micro USA, working on the development of algorithms to process remote surveillance iamges. As a principal engineer for Qualcomm for five years, he researched and developed high quality video compression systems for digital cinema applications. As a professor at San Diego State University for twenty years he taught courses in circuits, signals & systems, analog and digital communications, digital signal processing and image processing and conducted research in video compression.

Product Details

• Paperback: 450 pages
• Publisher: Focal Press; 1 edition (January 2, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0240807294
• ISBN-13: 978-0240807294
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,179,304 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Apply it to your engineering, April 20, 2006

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Dave Kline (Lakeworth, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Digital Image Processing with Application to Digital Cinema (Paperback)

I am involved in embedded applications. I currently work with scientific imaging sensors and real-time processing. This book has been useful and straight forward in my line of work. The chapter on human visual perception helped me to relate with camera issues. The book explains in a systematic manner how to apply discrete wavelet transforms to imaging and how to manipulate them. Overall, the materials in the book are easy to understand and have good examples. I highly recommend this book !!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book really fills a need in the industry, April 17, 2006

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S. Morley - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Digital Image Processing with Application to Digital Cinema (Paperback)

This book provides a very practical up-to-date introduction and explanation of the concepts and state of the art behind the fast changing world of digital image processing, specifically for higher-end applications such as television and digital cinema. The author does a good job of providing easy-to-understand explanations and examples of the basics of this complicated science that allow a non-technical professional to understand the basics of how digital processing is used in video and image applications. But, he also goes further to explain the complicated mathematical principles of various image processing technologies for the benefit of the serious student. The MATLAB examples in the appendix and the suggested "for further study" exercises help provide tools and direction for readers who want to experiment with the principles in the book. Overall, this book should be very useful to the professional or student trying to understand the current industry thinking regarding digital processing and compression of images for high-end presentation applications like digital cinema at whatever depth of understanding they are needing.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, a Must Have!, May 19, 2006

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F. Assaderaghi (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Digital Image Processing with Application to Digital Cinema (Paperback)

This is truly a great book, the math notations are clear and concise. A lot of good reference pointers in the book make it not only a fundamental textbook but also a good research resource. Many sample codes in Matlab are provided. For anyone working on image signal processing, it is a great resource library. The book is equally valuable to professioinals working on this subject and students (senior undergrad or first year graduate students) becoming familiar with the field.
There is only one minor limitation on what it covers on the digital video compression section. Some of the newest techniques used by the H.264 and VC1 were not mentioned here -- such as intra frame prediction, deblocking filter, as well as mathematic coding used in the entropy coding. There is a discussion on the adaptive block based DCT, which is very interesting. Although a comparison with the current adaptive variable size tracking block and Hadamard transformation would be valuable as well.
This might be a good incentive for Dr. Thyagarajan to write a 2nd edition :). In case he plans to write a new edition, maybe he can elaborate a bit more on the last chapter about what were Qualcomm's practical problems in this project and how they were resolved -- I would imagine he could have enough material to expand the last chapter easily to 40-50 pages from 15 pages.
In summary, I like this book a lot, especially the wavelet section. It is one of the best and clearst treatments of the subject I have ever seen.
I highly recommend owning this book and reading it seriously!