Image Processing, Analysis, and Machine Vision

List of algorithms xiv Preface xvii Possible course outlines xxii Introduction 1(10) Motivation 1(2) Why is computer vision difficult? 3(2) Image representation and image analysis tasks 5(4) Summary 9(1) References 10(1) The image, its representations and properties 11(38) Image representations, a few concepts 11(3) Image digitization 14(2) Sampling 14(1) Quantization 15(1) Digital image properties 16(15) Metric and topological properties of digital images 17(7) Histograms 24(1) Entropy 25(1) Visual perception of the image 25(3) Image quality 28(1) Noise in images 29(2) Color images 31(10) Physics of color 31(2) C