This book offers readers an essential introduction to the fundamentals of digital image
processing. Pursuing a signal processing and algorithmic approach it makes the fundamentals of
digital image processing accessible and easy to learn. It is written in a clear and concise
manner with a large number of 4 x 4 and 8 x 8 examples figures and detailed explanations. Each
concept is developed from the basic principles and described in detail with equal emphasis on
theory and practice. The book is accompanied by a companion website that provides several
MATLAB programs for the implementation of image processing algorithms. The book also offers
comprehensive coverage of the following topics: Enhancement Transform processing Restoration
Registration Reconstruction from projections Morphological image processing Edge detection
Object representation and classification Compression and Color processing.