Image Processing and Pattern Recognition:Fundamentals and Techniques

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This chapter contains sections titled:
The World of Signals
Digital Image Processing
Elements of an Image Processing System
Appendix 1.A Selected List of Books on Image Processing and Computer Vision from Year 2000
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This chapter contains sections titled:
Laplace Transform
Fourier Transform
Z-Transform
Cosine Transform
Wavelet Transform
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This chapter contains sections titled:
Grayscale Transformation
Piecewise Linear Transformation
Bit Plane Slicing
Histogram Equalization
Histogram Specification
Enhancement by Arithmetic Operations
Smoothing Filter
Sharpening Filter
Image Blur Types and Quality Measures
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This chapter contains sections titled:
Binary Morphology
Opening and Closing
Hit-or-Miss Transform
Grayscale Morphology
Basic Morphological Algorithms
Morphological Filters
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Thresholding
Object (Component) Labeling
Locating Object Contours by the Snake Model
Edge Operators
Edge Linking by Adaptive Mathematical Morphology
Automatic Seeded Region Growing
A Top-Down Region Dividing Approach
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This chapter contains sections titled:
General Concept
Distance Transformation by Mathematical Morphology
Approximation of Euclidean Distance
Decomposition of Distance Structuring Element
The 3D Euclidean Distance
The Acquiring Approaches
The Deriving Approaches
The Shortest Path Planning
Forward and Backward Chain Codes for Motion Planning
A Few Examples
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This chapter contains sections titled:
Run-Length Coding
Binary Tree and Quadtree
Contour Representation
Skeletonization by Thinning
Medial Axis Transformation
Object Representation and Tolerance
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This chapter contains sections titled:
Fourier Descriptor and Moment Invariants
Shape Number and Hierarchical Features
Corner Detection
Hough Transform
Principal Component Analysis
Linear Discriminate Analysis
Feature Reduction in Input and Feature Spaces
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The Unsupervised Clustering Algorithm
Bayes Classifier
Support Vector Machine
Neural Networks
The Adaptive Resonance Theory Network
Fuzzy Sets in Image Analysis
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Face and Facial Feature Extraction
Extraction of Head and Face Boundaries and Facial Features
Recognizing Facial Action Units
Facial Expression Recognition in JAFFE Database
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Block Segmentation and Classification
Rule-Based Character Recognition System
Logo Identification
Fuzzy Typographical Analysis for Character Preclassification
Fuzzy Model for Character Classification
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This chapter contains sections titled:
Watermarking Classification
Spatial Domain Watermarking
Frequency-Domain Watermarking
Fragile Watermark
Robust Watermark
Combinational Domain Digital Watermarking
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Types of Steganography
Applications of Steganography
Embedding Security and Imperceptibility
Examples of Steganography Software
Genetic Algorithm-Based Steganography
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Automatic Extraction of Filaments
Solar Flare Detection
Solar Corona Mass Ejection Detection
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