Image Processing and Machine Vision

This book explores image processing from several perspectives: the creative the theoretical (mainly mathematical) and the programmatical. It explains the basic principles of image processing drawing on key concepts and techniques from mathematics psychology of perception computer science and art and introduces computer programming as a way to get more control over image processing operations. It does so without requiring college-level mathematics or prior programming experience. The content is supported by PixelMath a freely available software program that helps the reader understand images as both visual and mathematical objects.