Product Description: This book focuses on the author's own PIKS scientific image processing, pedagogy and MATLAB software. Learning objectives and summaries are included in each chapter, in addition to computational examples and problems using MATLAB and PIKS...read more

A thoroughly updated edition of a bestselling guide to digital image processing, this book covers cutting-edge techniques for enhancing and interpreting digital images from different sources--scanners, radar systems, and digital cameras. A PIKS image processing library of executable files as well as digital versions of many of the pictures are provided via ftp to help apply the techniques discussed in the book.

Product Description: Developing Visual Applications is the first authoritative guide to both XIL and the basics of image processing. Every XIL imaging function is introduced in a non-mathematical fashion and then followed up with precise mathematical definitions, so knowledgeable developers can understand exactly how each function behaves...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Providing valuable assistance to the programer in understanding how the API works and how it can be used to write programs, this book contains descriptions of image processing operations and gives pragmatic examples of their use. As the only widely available document other than the standard itself, this guide will be useful to readers who want to evaluate PIKS as their future imaging API...read more

Product Description: A guide to the new OSI/ANSI computer imaging standard--PIKS (Programmer's Imaging Kernel System). The author is the editor of the PIKS standard and one of the leading authorities in the field of computer imaging. Topics covered here include: the PIKS theory of operation, PIKS C language interface, all the major PIKS mechanisms--allocation, inquiry, management, error handling...read more