bible of image processing/computer vision

[Julien]

Hi all,

I'm working in the field of image processing and computer vision for a
little time now but the lack of good reference book on my desk becomes
more and more important as i explore the domain...
I'm looking for a book that would be a strong reference, discussing a
wide range of topics, and which would be enough up to date to benefit
the latest algorithms and theories.
Ideally the following topics would be treated : computer vision,
perspective geometry (3d->2d, homogenious coordinates...), filters,
morphology, feature detection, shape/pattern analysis, deconvolution,
and i must miss some others... some machine learning would be great but
maybe the occasion for a second book...

I thought you may have ideas of good books or at least authors to give.

Thanks in advance !

[t l a n @interia.pl X t l a n]

> I'm looking for a book that would be a strong reference, discussing a

Digital Image Processing by Gonzales & Woods (?)

Regards,
P.

[Martin Leese]

Julien wrote:
...
> I'm looking for a book that would be a strong reference, discussing a
> wide range of topics, and which would be enough up to date to benefit
> the latest algorithms and theories.

The "bible" is:
Digital Image Processing, 2nd Edition
by William K. Pratt, 1991
ISBN: 0471857661

Or:
Digital Image Processing: PIKS Inside, 4th Edition
by William K. Pratt, 2006
ISBN: 0-471-76777-8

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Martin Leese
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[shyha]

Hey!

Martin Leese napisal(a):

> The "bible" is:
> Digital Image Processing, 2nd Edition
> by William K. Pratt, 1991
> ISBN: 0471857661
>
> Or:
> Digital Image Processing: PIKS Inside, 4th Edition
> by William K. Pratt, 2006
> ISBN: 0-471-76777-8
>

Why not 3rd one? I have this one :) Is there something wrong with the
3rd edition?

Cheers
Maciek

[jg.camp...@gmail.com]

Julien wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working in the field of image processing and computer vision for a
> little time now but the lack of good reference book on my desk becomes
> more and more important as i explore the domain...
> I'm looking for a book that would be a strong reference, discussing a
> wide range of topics, and which would be enough up to date to benefit
> the latest algorithms and theories.
> Ideally the following topics would be treated : computer vision,
> perspective geometry (3d->2d, homogenious coordinates...), filters,
> morphology, feature detection, shape/pattern analysis, deconvolution,
> and i must miss some others... some machine learning would be great but
> maybe the occasion for a second book...

I'll agree with others on Gonzalez and Woods and Pratt (Digital Image
Processing); I have the 1991 ed. of Pratt; the later ed. was very
expensive and didn't appear to offer much more --- but I could be
wrong. Another nice image processing book is Castleman, Digital Image
Processing, 1996. For a particular mathematical slant, A.K. Jain,
Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing, Prentice Hall, 1989. The
Gonzalez and Woods book has a Matlab edition.

None of those covers projective (perspective) geometry (I assume the
application is 3D vision); for that my strong recommendation would be
Hartley and Zisserman, Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision,
Cambridge U.P., 2004; but be careful not to get too entangled or
depressed while reading chapter 1. Trucco and other (?) seems to be
highly recommended; and Faugeras and Quang-Tuan Luong, The Geometry of
Multiple Images, MIT Press, 2001 may be worth a look.

Pattern recognition is another branch: Bishop, Neural Networks for
Pattern Recognition, 1995; Duda, Hart and Stork, Pattern
Classification, 2001 (or the 1973 ed. of Duda and Hart); Ripley,
Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks. Personally, I like the very
succinct Therrien, Decision , Estimation and Classification, Wiley,
1989 (but that seems to have been out of print for a long time).

Good luck,

Jon C.

[Julien]

thank you all for your extensive and precise answers !!!
now i'm armed for the bookshop...