TY - BOOK AU - Bovik, Al AU - Bovik, Alan C TI - The essential guide to image processing SN - 9780123744579 U1 - 621.367 BOV/E PY - 2009/// CY - United States of America -- PB - Academic Press -- KW - Image processing Digital techniques KW - Image processing KW - Imaging Systems KW - Digital imaging N1 - *Introduction; *The SIVA System; *Basic Gray-Level Image Processing; *Basic Binary Image Processing; *Basic Tools for Image Fourier Analysis; *Multiscale Decompositions and Wavelets; *Image Noise Models; *Color Images; *Statistical Modeling of Natural Images; *Linear Image Filtering & Enhancement; *Wavelet Image Filtering; *Nonlinear Image Filtering; *Morphological Filtering; *Basic Image Restoration and Identification; *Basic Lossless Image Coding; *JPEG and JPEG2000; *Wavelet Image Compression; *Basic Edge Detection; *Anisotropic Diffusion Edge Detection; *Image Quality Assessment; *Image Watermarking; *Fingerprint Recognition; *Face Recognition; *Iris Recognition; *Medical imaging; *Visual Fixations and Visual Attention; *Towards Video Processing N2 - This comprehensive and state-of-the art approach to image processing gives engineers and students a comprehensive introduction, and includes full coverage of key applications: image watermarking, fingerprint recognition, face recognition and iris recognition and medical imaging. To help learn the concepts and techniques, the book contains a CD-ROM of 70 highly interactive visual demonstrations. Key algorithms and their implementation details are included, as are the latest developments in the standards.* A complete and modern introduction to the basic and intermediate concepts of image ER -