This book provides a thorough overview of the topics in Digital Image Processing: representation, processing, techniques, and communication. Besides presenting the necessary mathematical tools, it discusses the major topics in detail.The text covers aspects of image representation including luminance, colour, spacial and temporal properties of vision and digitization. Imag This book provides a thorough overview of the topics in Digital Image Processing: representation, processing, techniques, and communication. Besides presenting the necessary mathematical tools, it discusses the major topics in detail.The text covers aspects of image representation including luminance, colour, spacial and temporal properties of vision and digitization. Image processing techniques are explained in full, and comprehensive treatment of stochastic models_useful in understanding the fundamental techniques of image restoration_and coding is provided.The author also discusses algorithm developments (software/firmware) for image transforms, enhancement, reconstruction and image coding. Over 400 pieces of art and numerous illustrative diagrams help the reader in understanding the subject. Table of Contents Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Two-Dimensional Systems and Mathematical Preliminaries. Image Perception. Image Sampling and Quantization. Image Transforms. Image Representation by Stochastic Models. Image Enhancement. Image Filtering and Restoration. Image Analysis and Computer Vision. Image Reconstruction from Projections. Image Data Compression. Index.