Introduction

------ The basic idea of "image processing."

On-line Resources:

Besser, Howard and Jennifer Trant, "Introduction to Imaging : Issues in Constructing an Image Database", The Getty Information Institute, 1995.
http://www.ahip.getty.edu/intro_imaging/0-Cover.html
The first and still good on-line tutorial on digital conversion, image presentation, and reserch issues. It is a good paper for beginners to learn the basic idea of imaging and terminology.

"Project Anthivolon: Digital processing and archiving of Byzantine icons and mural paintings", Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
http://poseidon.csd.auth.gr/Projects/anthivolon/
A good review on what "Image processing task" is going to do.

Reference Books:

Rafael C. Gonzalez and Richard E. Woods, "Digital Image Processing" Chapter 1

Image model and Transforms

------ Mathematical fundations of image processing.

On-line Resources:

"Wavelet Resources", Math Soft.
http://www.mathsoft.com/wavelets.html
Resources about Wavelet transform and applications

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Image acquisition

------ How to abtain an image in digital form with desired quality.

On-line Resources:

"Image Scanning -- A Basic Helpsheet", Electronic Text Center, Alderman Library, University of Virginia Charlottesville
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/helpsheets/scanimage.html
Resources about Image Scanning including: general introdution about image scanning process, types, resolution, file formats, size comparison between JPEG and TIFF, and data control.

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Image enhancement and restoration

------ How to make the image "better" and more desired.

On-line Resources:

"The Restoration of HST Images and Spectra - II"
http://www.stsci.edu/stsci/meetings/irw/tablecon.html Restoration of Hober Space Telescope (links)

"Publications on Image Reconstruction and Restoration"
http://www.cs.rug.nl/~roe/publications.html
A list of papers in "*.ps" file

"UCLA Image Processing Reports"
http://www.math.ucla.edu/~blomgren/SHTML/cam_reports.shtml
A list of papers in "*.ps" file

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Image compression

------ How to make the size of image storage small.

On-line Resources:

"A Survey of Compressed Domain Processing Techniques", Brian C. Smith
http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/DL/bsmith.html
A Survey on JPEG and MPEG

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Image database

------ How to save a lot of images for retrieval.

On-line Resources:

"Image and Multimedia Database Resources", Paul Peters dies11/18/96
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/
Very Useful Resource!! sets of links.

"Image Databases -- Fall 1995 class" , Instructor: Howard Besser, Berkeley.
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/impact/Fall95/
It is a course description. But the COURSE READINGS & RESOURCES is useful.
Content: Technical Protection for Images , Information about Standards , Info for Building your own search engines for WWW DB , Sample Image DB applications incorporating automatic indexing , relevancy feedback, content-based retrieval , Museum Education Site Licences Project documents , Document Images--Image Quality, Conservation, Long-Term Issues.

"Howard Besser's Homepage"
http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~howardb/#multimedia
There are some of his current and recent multimedia database activities.

Reference Books:

"Constraint Based Feature Indexing and Retrieval for Image Databases", Peter Eggleston , Amerinex Applied Imaging (AAI).

Segmentation and Recognition

------ How to know if this one is the image we want!

On-line Resources:

"Image Understanding" Amerinex Applied Image
http://www.aai.com/AAI/IU/IU.html
A brief Definition and Perspective from the AAI viewpoint.

"Advanced Imaging Solutions -- Real-Time Image Processing Specialists"
http://www.pixeldata.com/ais.html
Examples of their project experience in image analysis (processing of a fringe interferometry pattern), segmentation (extraction of the defined details against a complex background).
Just an Example!!

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Quality control

------ We don't want to lose anything when processing images.

On-line Resources:

"Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections: Foundations for Technical Standards" 1997 , Franziska Frey, Research Scientist, Image Permanence Institute
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3.html#com

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Some products and projects

On-line Resources:

"The Electronic Beowulf" The British Library and the University of Kentucky.
http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/
DIGITAL PRESERVATION, RESTORATION, and DISSEMINATION of MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS.

"Washington State University Interactive Image Processing Project"
http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~bamberg/imagep.html

"Precision Digital Images Corp."
http://www.precisionimages.com/indx_prd.htm
Products.

"The KBVision System" , Amerinex Applied Imaging.
http://www.aai.com/AAI/KBV/KBV.html
The KBVision System is a set of tools for solving problems in image understanding. It is used for research, applications prototyping, and end-user applications such as measuring, counting, and visualization. The system provides a visual programming environment, data visualization tools, a large task library, and task programming libraries. The system is sold in modules, which allows users to purchase only the tools they need.

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Some available procedures and formats

On-line Resources:

"How the Images Were Prepared for the World Wide Web" , Kodak.
http://www.kodak.com/digitalImages/samples/aboutPix.shtml
A step by step procedure to prepare images for WWW.

"Digital Formats for Content Reproductions" ,Carl Fleischhauer Technical Coordinator, National Digital Library Program, Library of Congress August 20, 1996
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/formats.html
Contents: Pictorial Materials, Textual Materials Reproduced as Searchable Text and Images , Textual Materials Reproduced as Images , Images for Use in Browser-based Paging Sets , Maps , Sound Recordings , Moving-image Materials , File Headers.

"A Multimedia Image Database for Image Processing Instruction" , 1993, Roberto H. Bamberger Steven L. Eddins Stanley J. Reeves
http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~bamberg/publications/imagep93/database.html

"Deutsch IMG Library"
http://www.astro.washington.edu/deutsch/idl/htmlhelp/library03.html
This page is a listing of the entire contents of this library for IDL. It's a List of Routines.

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