The Image Processing Handbook (Hardcover)

by John C. Russ (Author)
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Dr. John C. Russ is the recipient of the 2006 Ernst Abbe Memorial Award of the New York Microscopical Society, for achievements made in the field of microscopy.
For more information, visit http://nyms.org

Dr. John C. Russ is the recipient of the 2006 Ernst Abbe Memorial Award of the New York Microscopical Society, for achievements made in the field of microscopy.
For more information, visit http://nyms.org

Product Description
Now in its fifth edition, John C. Russ’s monumental image processing reference is an even more complete, modern, and hands-on tool than ever before. The Image Processing Handbook, Fifth Edition is fully updated and expanded to reflect the latest developments in the field. Written by an expert with unequalled experience and authority, it offers clear guidance on how to create, select, and use the most appropriate algorithms for a specific application.

What’s new in the Fifth Edition?

· A new chapter on the human visual process that explains which visual cues elicit a response from the viewer

· Description of the latest hardware and software for image acquisition and printing, reflecting the proliferation of the digital camera

· New material on multichannel images, including a major section on principal components analysis

· Expanded sections on deconvolution, extended dynamic range images, and image enlargement and interpolation

· More than 600 new and revised figures and illustrations for a total of more than 2000 illustrations

· 20% more references to the most up-to-date literature

Written in a relaxed and reader-friendly style, The Image Processing Handbook, Fifth Edition guides you through the myriad tools available for image processing and helps you understand how to select and apply each one.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 832 pages
• Publisher: CRC; 5 edition (December 19, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0849372542
• ISBN-13: 978-0849372544
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• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #509,618 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good user manual for image processing, August 3, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Image Processing Handbook, Third Edition (Hardcover)

This book reads like a user manual for an engineering image processing toolkit. In fact, that is exactly what it is -- the author sells a companion CD that is a set of image processing plug-ins to PhotoShop. However, you will not need to buy his toolkit to find this book valuable. Any image processing package that you use will be of greater use to you if you have this book at your side. The important thing to realize is that this is a handbook for technical USERS. It is not a programming manual for how to implement the techniques it discusses, but a very high-quality discussion of what the techniques are and when and why you would use them. Within that domain, the book has remarkable depth and clarity. It is quite up-to-date in its coverage, and draws extensively from real-world applications in medicine, microscopy, and satellite imaging. If you need to develop image processing procedures in your work as an engineer, you will want to have this book by your side.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excelent Handbook, April 20, 2000

By	Augusto Queiroz (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Image Processing Handbook (Hardcover)

If you are primarily interested in remote sensing aspects of image processing (e.g., satellite and airborne imagery of the ground). I recommend acquiring this handbook on image processing. By far the best handbook on general Image Processing is "The Image Processing Handbook" edited by Russ and published by the IEEE. I use this book all the time. Of course, if you are getting into specific areas, such as mapping, hyperspectral imagery, synthetic aperature radar imagery or photogrammetry (i.e., precise physical measurement from imagery), or if you have a specific application (such as deforestation or plant diseases or agriculture), you should consider separate books on those topics.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nearly perfect, July 27, 2006

By	B. Dixon (Fox, Alaska) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Image Processing Handbook, Third Edition (Hardcover)

As others have stated, this book comes as close as you'll ever get to a single-source reference on image processing. But if I were ever going to shoot anything down in it, I'd say that a little more mathematical background on some topics (and maybe pseudocoded examples) would help. For example, in the satellite geometric correction section, only a very high level view is given yet this is a challenging topic that could use more depth. Geometric transformations in general could use more depth, e.g. camera calibrations or image warping/morphing/mapping to other projections for example. Another example would be the need for a little more depth on how to make slow algorithms fast ...like convolution multiplications for example. Sure, you could write out the multiplies and spot commonalities, then re-use results that appear in more than one subsequent equation and what not, but some exploration of matrix math and how to make it efficient would be nice. But again ...I'm picking at small things here, and if John's book covered everything that I'd like it to, then it would become 2 books, not one ...hey! Now THERE's an idea! A 2+ book set by John Russ that covers a broader range of topics and does so in greater depth! That's something that I'd pay for (and much better to read than Ballard & Brown)