Digital Image Processing By Gonzalez- An Encyclopedia In ShortMuch has been said and written about digital image processing. Of all the famous books written on the topic, Digital Image Processing by Gonzalez and Woods, 3rd edition is a prime name. It has been the leading text book on the topic all over the world for more than 30 years. Since it was first written in the year 1977, there have been numerous editions of it. The 1977 and 1987 editions were written by Gonzalez and Wintz while the third edition of the book is written by Gonzalez and Woods. The third edition has been written while keeping the students and the instructors in mind. While the book sheds a lot of relevant light on the most contemporary issues in the field of digital image processing, its focus remains on educating the reader about the basic concepts and methodologies for digital image processing. Timely material, high readability and numerous examples make it a highly comprehensible self help guide for all the digital image processing learners. The book is a real storehouse of the information as it carries hoard of information on restoration, frequency domain, color image processing, morphology, image description, and wavelets. Thus, even an amateur gets to learn all the basics of image processing without help. The approach of the book is very reader friendly and various examples make it easy for the reader to understand what's written. The popularity of the book can be well judged by the fact that it forms a part of the course curriculum of not just one school but almost 134 institutions across 32 countries, all round the world. Most of the high class photography labs also carry a copy of this bible on Digital image processing. Primarily, the third edition has some changes in the form of a crisp revision of the introductory concepts. Also, the book offers a new discussion of the fuzzy sets and their application in image processing. Furthermore, there are added chapters on frequency domain processing, discreet Fourier transform and computerized tomography. Digital Image Processing, 3rd edition also has a detailed new chapter on various tricks of data compression that talks about digital video compression, compression techniques and watermarking. Through this book you could also learn a lot about morphological reconstruction, gray-scale morphology and advanced morphological algorithms and image thresholding. The USP of the book lies in completely new illustrations involving over 400 new images and 200 new drawings and tables. Also, the book contains a set of 80 new problems that you could practice for yourself and test your skills. You would also easily be able to get a blog here and there talking about the functionality and usability of the book. Thus, Digital Image Processing by Gonzalez and Woods, 3rd edition is a real master book when it comes to knowing about digital image processing. It is sure to help you greatly master all the skills required to play effectively with the images.
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