SHAPE ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE

and Roberto M. Cesar Junior

CRC Press

Chapter 3

Shape Acquisition and Pre-processing

3. IMAGE ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING

• 3.1 IMAGE REPRESENTATION
  • 3.1.1 Image Formation and Gray Level Images
  • 3.1.2 Sampling and Quantization
  • 3.1.3 Shape Sampling
  • 3.1.4 Binary Images
  • 3.1.5 Color Digital Images
  • 3.1.6 Video Sequences
  • 3.1.7 Multispectral Images
  • 3.1.8 Voxels
• 3.2 IMAGE PROCESSING AND FILTERING
  • 3.2.1 Histograms and Pixel Manipulation
  • 3.2.2 Local or neighborhood processing
  • 3.2.3 Average Filtering
  • 3.2.4 Linear Filtering
  • 3.2.5 Linear Filtering
  • 3.2.6 Gaussian Smoothing
  • 3.2.7 Fourier-based filtering
  • 3.2.8 Median and other Non-Linear Filters
• 3.3 IMAGE SEGMENTATION: EDGE DETECTION
  • 3.3.1 Edge Detection in Binary Images
  • 3.3.2 Gray-Level Edge Detection
  • 3.3.3 Gradient-Based Edge Detection
  • 3.3.4 Roberts Operator
  • 3.3.5 Sobel, Prewitt and Kirsch Operator
  • 3.3.6 Second Order Operators: Laplacian
  • 3.3.7 Fourier-Based Edge Detection
  • 3.3.8 Multiscale Edge Detection: The Marr-Hildreth Transform
• 3.4 IMAGE SEGMENTATION: FURTHER ALGORITHMS
  • 3.4.1 Image Thresholding
  • 3.4.2 Region-Growing
• 3.5 BINARY MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY
  • 3.5.1 Image Dilation
  • 3.5.2 Image Erosion
• 3.6 CONCLUDING REMARKS

Imaging Software:

• xv: ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv/
• GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/
• MatLab: http://www.mathworks.com/
• SciLab: http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab/
• Lview: http://www.lview.com/
• PaintShopPro: http://www.jasc.com/
• Adobe PhotoShop: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/
• Khoros: http://www.khoral.com/
• PBMPlus: ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/graphics/graphics/packages/pbmplus/
• SDC Morphology Toolbox for Matlab: http://www.mmorph.com/

Links to imaging software

• Computer Vision Source Code: http://www.cs.cmu.edu:80/afs/cs/project/cil/ftp/html/v-source.html
• GNU HomePage: http://www.gnu.org
• CNET.com - Downloads: http://download.cnet.com/
• ReVision's Software Guide: http://www.ime.usp.br/~cesar/revision/softw.htm