Digital Image Processing: Concepts, Algorithms and Scientific Applications

This guidebook uses the concepts and mathematics familiar to students of the natural sciences to provide them with a working knowledge of modern techniques of digital image processing. It takes readers from basic concepts to current research topics and demonstrates how digital image processing can be used for data gathering in research. Examples of applications on PC-based systems and algorithms and included in the text. It also includes advances such as reconstruction of 3-D objects from projections and the analysis of stereo images and image sequences.