Digital Image Processing: An Algorithmic Introduction Using Java (Texts in Computer Science)

I have been purchasing books for 70 of my 77 years,and this offering defies the virtual definition of the 'thing.' The book I have, as well as the one that I gave to a student, is almost physically unreadable. In the 1940's, I was instructed that the binding of every new book and text required a standard 'breaking in.' That process was to insure that when one got to the middle of the read, the binding would not break. Thus, before reading this new book, I tried to process this one ----- and failed miserably. Since, every time I try to read this text, I require two bricks to keep it open to the pages I wished to read. Even with that, this book doesn't even resemble any real text I have purchased over my career. The binding is inflexible. It apparently has a metal backing that provides no spring; thus, I cannot both read and take notes which is my normal habit when reading a text. The first English edition was bound in the old manner - it had half the pages and a much more flexible binding. Further, as if to want to make reading as difficult as possible the margin of the pages at the binding are hardly a centimeter, and without a vice to level the page of interest, 2/3 of the page rises from the binding at the center of the book in an arc with a radius less than 2-3 cm and doesn't get close to flat until one reaches the 56-57mm margin on the outside of the page. In this wide margin the printer decided to place the captions of figures RATHER than reducing that margin to a reasonable 25mm or less. So, what I have is a tome whose design is apparently meant to prevent copying AS WELL AS READING! Now, if I wanted to copy the pages, I would 'clip' off the binding and run the pages through any scanner in bulk pieces. REALLY! That being true, I must conclude that, either the 'series editors' or some anonymous 'person' must really despise the authors and their potential readers. Sadly, the authors, the readers, and the sellers are duped by the publisher, in this case, who probably doesn't have quality control at home; for surely, no one educated in either the US or Germany could fail to see the shortcomings of this product. Of course, since I only speak of two purchases, I might have been the one who got the only two 'rascal' products that escaped the QC folks at "Springer!" By the way, those parts of the text that I have laboriously read are top notch. Thanks for that, at least. If I cannot find a way to comfortably read this volume, I may decide to excise the offending binder so that I can read the pages in a way that is reasonable - at least for me. BTW, I also have John Russ's "The Image Processing Handbook, 6th Ed," from CRC, 2011. The binding of this 867 page book is bound in the 'proper' manner that enables flat pages at the middle both of whose margins are only 13mm. A most comfortable book to read and learn from. I wish I knew sufficient about the psychology of the recent leaders at Springer, and I hope that they were not hired away from CRC. That would cause me to lose hope completely.

To appreciate this wonderful book, it isn't at all necessary that you intend to code in Java or use ImageJ as an image-processing tool. If you want to understand the machine vision algorithms that would be used in ANY language, this text is for you.The concepts are well illustrated (important for this topic, of course), especially where it comes to how and why a certain image operation works.I've read many other texts on this subject, and most were either too basic (without explaining why or how things are done), or far too deep in mathematical concepts. This was exactly right. If you understand at least the basics of matrices and calculus (1st year is plenty), you're fully equipped to understand 90% of this book. If you're like me, you may need to do a little side reading, but not much.Like any text book, there are some errata, so be sure and download those from their web site, where they also supply all the sample code, and links to ImageJ if you want to use that too.If you want one book on Image Processing, this is it.

I purchased this book to learn more about writing plug-ins for ImageJ and how best to prepare and analyze images of cells in culture. I get the feeling that this book would be amazingly helpful (hence the 4 stars) if you already have an extensive background in Java or if you have a computer science teacher guiding you in a formal class. However, this is probably not the best book for biology researchers who have only an elementary knowledge of Java and are trying to teach themselves about image processing.

I bought this book because I was interested in learning more about how to work with raster data (images) in geospatial programs. This is a very comprehensive coverage of the topic of image processing and analysis in Java. The book is suitable for use in a college class, and is set up like a traditional textbook. It has lots of color figures and diagrams.The examples in the book are set-up to work with ImageJ, an open source image processing program written in Java, and the book includes a good overview of ImageJ and its API.This book is not a casual introduction to the topic of image processing, and isn't necessarily a cozy read. It definitely reads like a text book. Still, I think it is a great introduction to image processing in Java, and something most capable Java programmers will be able to read and understand.

A MUST read for CS students and professionals!

As advertised

Great resource and well explained with a lot of sample code!

An excellent coverage of image processing concepts, principles and practical programming exercises. Tying this to ImageJ and giving extensive examples makes this book a most valuable refernece to those in many fields from psychology perception through to computer generated analysis.It is well writtin, plenty of examples and diagrams and covering a wide and inclusive range of topics and concepts.I thoroughly reccommend!!!

Both deep enough theory and lots of practical exercises. I am also learning in deep what is the meaning with all these functions I met on image processing program I used for years, like GIMP.

un libro especialmente útil y práctico, con la posibilidad de programar en Fiji (ImageJ) los algoritmos esenciales del tratamiento digital de la imagen.

contenu riche. Il me permet d'attaquer le problème d'analyse des plaques d'immatriculation. Ce livre détaille les techniques avec implémentation en java à l'appui. Le chapitre introduit dans cette seconde édition qui a motivé l'achat de ce livre est le 'skeletonization' que j'utiliserai pour identifier les chiffres

An easy and reading well structured book. Recommended only for people with some Java programming knowledge.More examples would be desirable.