Image Analysis Sourcebook

Signal And Image Processing Sourcebook

The technological background established in these early chapters - especially in the production and processing of television images - vividly illuminates the development of the sophisticated image processing employed in contemporary radar, space exploration, and medical radiological imaging. Continuing this integrated approach, the author links the fundamentals of analog telephony to the development of modern digital signal processing in telecommunications and networking. A detailed account of microprocessor technology further integrates the overall picture of the field of contemporary signal and image processing. Logically, the discussion is extended to the aspects of signal processing involved in artificial intelligence and neural networks.

Image analysis sourcebook

Image Analysis Sourcebook

An account of modern image analysis. With the development of the theory of morphology, high performance computers, inexpensive, high quality digital cameras, and digitizing boards, image analysis is coming into its own. This book presents the theory of morphology applied to image analysis. The image analyzers have 2 advantages, they don't tire, and they work best with numerical image descriptors (not words). However, numbers can lend an air of superiority to the image analyzer that may be inappropriate and unjustified. The limitation of available image analyzers is obvious to any knowledgeable user. Most current instruments appear technically sophisticated, but their analytical capability is limited and flawed, because they have no theoretical underpinning. They lack the theory of morphology. To develop the technology of image analysis further, the capability of measuring shape or morphology has to be exploited in the next generation of image analysis instruments using the theory of morphology. If we measure the shape or morphology of an object, the results obtained can include size, shape, symmetry, roughness, aspect ratio, and microroughness numbers. This book is about these numbers and how to derive them, not just any numbers but the right numbers that would result if your image analyzer performed morphological analysis.