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Citation
Rigelsford, J. (2001), "Colour Image Processing and Applications Digital Signal Processing", Sensor Review, Vol. 21 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/sr.2001.08721cae.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2001, MCB UP Limited
Colour Image Processing and Applications Digital Signal Processing
K.N. Plataniotis and A.N. VenetsanopoulosSpringer2000355 pp.ISBN 3-540-66953-1£68.50 hardback
Keywords: Image processing, Colour
Colour Image Processing and Applications presents various state of the art colour image processing techniques, pictures of colour image processing results, and numerous examples.
The book comprises eight chapters, structured into four parts. The first part includes chapter 1, "Colour spaces", and introduces colour science and the different models which are used to describe colour. Part two addresses colour image processing, with chapters 2 and 3 presenting "Colour image filtering", and "Adaptive image filters". Topics discussed include colour noise; modelling sensor noise; directional-based filters; filters based on marginal ordering; the adaptive fuzzy system; adaptive morphological filters; and simulation studies. Difference vector operators, histogram equalisation, colour image restoration, and restoration algorithms are discussed in chapters 4 and 5, "Colour edge detection", and "Colour image enhancement and restoration".
The third part of the book deals with colour image analysis and coding techniques. Chapter 6, "Colour image segmentation", presents axel-, region-, edge-, model- and physics-based techniques, and discusses possible applications. Lossless and lossy waveform-based image compression techniques, and colour video compression, are amongst the topics discussed in chapter 7, "Colour image compression".
The final part, chapter 8, address emerging applications of colour image processing and also provides some experimental results.
This is a very good book which is suitable for graduate students, researchers and development engineers involved with colour image processing. It can be used as a textbook for graduate digital image processing and multimedia systems courses, and as a reference text since it offers a broad survey of the relevant literature. Companion software written in Java is also available from the book's Web site at http://www.springer.de
Jonathan Rigelsford