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Review: Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSP.2008.924962
Review: Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSP.2008.924962
Review: Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSP.2008.924962
T
he field of digital imag- CREATION, COMPRESSION, coverage culminates in the original
ing is vast and diverse. RESTORATION, AND JPEG standard and the FBI’s
At its foundations is a RECOGNITION, IT IS REALLY Wavelet Scalar Quantization (WSQ)
body of mathematics, standard for fingerprint-image
THE MATHEMATICS THAT
equally as vast and compression, stopping well short of
DRIVE THE DISCOURSE HERE.
diverse, from which techniques and the current state of the art by at
algorithms are drawn as solutions to least 10–15 years. No mention is
problems arising in myriads of imaging a book on image processing per se. Not made of modern algorithms such as
applications. S.G. Hoggar’s recent book, covered is fundamental theory typically those included in the JPEG 2000 stan-
Mathematics of Digital Images: present in image processing texts such dard. Rather, there are extensive discus-
Creation, Compression, Restoration, as image sampling and acquisition, sions on the Laplacian pyramid as well
Recognition, covers the foundational color spaces and transformations, and as fractals and iterated function sys-
mathematics essential to many modern elements of human visual perception. tems—nicely mathematical, indeed,
image processing techniques and appli- Nor is the book truly “about” digital but somewhat dated from a practical
cations. At 854 pages, the book is imaging applications. Although from standpoint. Similarly, discussions on
impressively comprehensive and nearly the book’s title one might be led to image restoration end with Wiener fil-
encyclopedic in scope—just about every expect a focus on applications in image tering and Bayesian techniques, while
conceivable mathematical concept relat- creation, compression, restoration, and more recent methods such as blind
ed to digital imaging is covered. The recognition, it is really the mathemat- image deconvolution, anisotropic diffu-
text itself is divided into 18 chapters ics that drive the discourse here. True, sion, and inpainting go untouched.
arranged into six parts covering, respec- these applications are covered, but only Coverage of image analysis likewise
tively, plane-based symmetries, vector- to the point that they serve as exam- stops at edge detection without consid-
ples to illustrate the mathematics. ering morphological image processing
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSP.2008.924962 Readers concerned with image pro- or boundary and region descriptors.