Image Processing in Java with CDROM [Paperback]

Douglas A. Lyon (Author), Douglas A. Lyons (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1999

Image Processing in Java combines the most complete set of real-world Java-based image processing examples ever assembled in one book, with a sound theoretical foundation for image processing. This end-to-end "cookbook" delivers thoroughly-tested, platform-independent algorithms you can use to build Java-based software for virtually any research or product development project. Coverage includes restoration, compression, segmentation, transformation, representation and warping; displaying and filtering images; homogeneous point processing functions and classes; image streams, file readers and writers; and more. Lyon also demonstrates how to design CODECs and custom image formats. Practical from start to finish, this is the only book of its kind. And if you want to master image processing using the fastest-growing computer language in history -- Java -- it's the only book you need.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Written for the more advanced Java developer, Image Processing in Java provides an excellent class library of 2-D image processing algorithms for Java, along with the mathematical underpinnings of how each works.

The author first looks at some of the performance issues when using Java for image processing and then covers user interfaces, such as menu and shortcut key processing and events in Java. Several classes from the author's class library (named Kahindu) come next, including his powerful ImageFrame class, which manages the details of storing and displaying.

After presenting image fundamentals, the book provides a variety of contrast and brightening/dimming algorithms. You learn how to work with file streams (which the author has encapsulated in his own classes for both the GZIP and PPM file formats) and about blurring, smoothing, image erosion, and dilation. More advanced sections cover topics such as edge detection while working with color images and rotating and shearing images.

Throughout this text, Lyon presents the theory and mathematics behind all these 2-D image processing topics, along with their implementation in his custom Java class library. This approach makes this book useful for the classroom or for self-study because the reader can see these image tools at work through the accompanying Java demonstrations. Certainly this book assumes some math background, but the code itself can be used by anyone seeking to get control of 2-D image processing in Java. --Richard Dragan

From Library Journal

Lyon is the director of the Image Sequence Processing Lab in Computer Science at the University of Bridgeport, CT. Drawing on the graduate-level classes in Java he teaches there, Lyon assumes the reader has a background in both mathematics and Java. He explains event processing, displaying and filtering images, image processing, file reading, edge detection, lighting, warping, transformations, and more. Excellent for college and university libraries.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 561 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 1st edition (March 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0139745777
• ISBN-13: 978-0139745775
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,968,495 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Douglas A. Lyon (M'89-SM'00) received the Ph.D., M.S. and B.S.
degrees in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute (1991, 1985 and 1983). Dr. Lyon has worked at
AT&T Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill, NJ and the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.

He is currently the co-director of the Electrical and Computer Engineering program at
Fairfield University, in Fairfield CT, a senior member of the IEEE and President of
DocJava, Inc., a consulting firm in Connecticut. Dr. Lyon has authored or co-authored
three books (Java, Digital Signal Processing, Image Processing in Java and Java for
Programmers). He has authored over 40 journal publications

Customer Reviews

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars First does not mean best!, July 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Image Processing in Java with CDROM (Paperback)

This sentance from the book's forward sumarizes this book well. "This may not be the very best book that will ever be written on image processing in Java, but it is the FIRST book."

Don't look to this as a how-to book. It is more of an academic treatise on image processing fundementals. As such, it is a valuable reference manual.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A lot of work and excellent software, December 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Image Processing in Java with CDROM (Paperback)

This book must have taken a lot of work. The algorithms described have all be implemented by the author. Unlike classic image processing textbooks that I have seen, every algorithm actually works. This is NOT a theory book, yet it contains the foundations needed for graduate level work.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent technical treatment of the intended subject matter, April 27, 1999

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This review is from: Image Processing in Java with CDROM (Paperback)

This book is full of Image Processing Gems! It can be used as a college level textbook in image processing, but can also be used by the practicing professional engineer. To understand all the detailed presentation of the algorithms you do need an understanding of college calculus, but that shouldn't be a minus.

I can't understand one reviewer's remarks that this book is a bad image processing book because it doesn't use Swing. Perhaps he was looking for a Swing book not a technical presentation of image processing with examples in Java.

If you need an image processing book get this one!