Foundations of Computer Vision

This book reflects the authors’ experience in teaching one- and two-semester undergraduate and graduate courses in Digital Image Processing Digital Image Analysis Image Understanding Medical Imaging Machine Vision Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Robotics at their respective institutions. We hope that this combined experience will give a thorough grounding to the beginner and provide material that is advanced enough to allow the more mature student to understand fully the relevant areas of the subject. We acknowledge that in a very short time the more active areas will have moved beyond this text.