The Image Processing Handbook, Fourth Edition [Hardcover]

John C. Russ (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 084931142X | ISBN-13: 978-0849311420 | Publication Date: July 26, 2002 | Edition: 4th

First published in 1992, The Image Processing Handbook not only set the standard for professional references in this field, but also provided the first text truly accessible to undergraduate students and non-specialists. Each subsequent edition has reflected the continuing rapid advances in image processing, and the fourth edition is no exception. In fact, its broader scope, increased depth, and logical presentation make it, more than ever, a powerful teaching tool, essential reference, and handy companion for both new and experienced image processors and analysts.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Praise for the previous editions: - Anna W. Ren, Head of Public Services, Northwestern University "Every person who uses computer image processing...who is planning to use image processing...who is involved in the purchase of computer systems or software that involve image processing...should read this book. And if you are not in one of the above groups, you might want to read it anyway." - Microscopy Research and Technique "An excellent book, not only for the entrant into image processing and analysis, but also as a reference for those who use these techniques on a daily basis." - P.G.T. Howell, University College London "This is a wonderful book on image processing...This book is an example of what an image processing book should be as Russ explains image processing the right way-through pictures." -Dwayne Phillips, Editor's Choice Review Service "a well-balanced volume that will find a place on many bookshelves but will not accumulate dust!already my favourite reference work for image processing!" - B. Batchelor, Cardiff University There are not many textbooks on image processing that can really be recommended to undergraduate students, but this is one of them." -Computing Reviews, February 1999 "The production quality of the volume is superbJohn Russ has succeeded in providing a book that meets the intended aim: to provide a self-instruction course on the fundamentals of image processing. I recommend this handbook to those who wish to explore the myriad techniques of digital image processing as well as performing measurements on the processed images." -Barry R. Masters, Journal of Microscopy, October 1999

About the Author

Now retired from the Materials Science and Engineering Department at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA, Dr. John C. Russ has worked with many different types of microscopes and image analysis tools to study the microstructure of materials. During a career of nearly 50 years teaching students and working in industry, he has become recognized worldwide as an expert in image analysis. He has developed a familiarity with other types of microstructures and corresponding fields, including foods, biological materials, , wood and paper products, textiles, and biomedical and forensic imaging. He has published numerous books and papers, and continues to teach workshops, consult on imaging issues, and provide expert witness testimony. Dr. Russ is the recipient of the Ernst Abbe Memorial Award from the New York Microscopical Society for his achievements in the field of microscopy.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 732 pages
• Publisher: CRC Press; 4th edition (July 26, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 084931142X
• ISBN-13: 978-0849311420
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,122,336 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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38 of 38 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.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

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

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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 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New 5th edition continues its tradition as a valuable tool, March 9, 2007

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

John Russ' book on image processing was never intended to be a textbook on how to understand and write your own image processing algorithms, as you might believe by looking through the table of contents. It does cover just about everything you would see in such a textbook, but from a user's standpoint of these operations, not as an author of image processing code who needs to understand the algorithms behind these operations. Instead, Russ explains all of the operations, their value in various applications, and provides many illustrations showing before and after pictures of what each operation does. There are no algorithms, pseudocode, or mathematics in this book.

The jewel in the crown of this book is the companion CD. It contains over 200 Photoshop plug-ins for performing the operations mentioned in this book. These plug-ins work on 8-bit grayscale and 24 bit RGB images and are divided into the categories of image adjustment, color manipulation, image math, boolean operations, Fourier processing, morphological operations, neighborhood processing, distance-map operations, thresholding, feature measurement, calibration, stereology, and surface rendering. The bad news is that you have to obtain the CD separately. If you need to understand the detailed mathematics behind such operations, you might consult Digital Image Processing by Gonzalez and Woods, and then come back to this book for the tools to accomplish the operations explained in that book. The updates to this fifth edition include an additional chapter on human vision and how it ties into image processing. Also, the author has updated his sections on image acquisition hardware and software to describe the latest tools available. Finally, the topic of tomographic imaging has been expanded and given its own chapter and the chapter on 3-D image acquisition has been deleted.

This is an excellent book on image processing from a systems engineering and user standpoint. You will be disappointed if you expect to learn the algorithms behind the techniques demonstrated in this book.