Give your students a contemporary treatment of image processing that balances a broad coverage of major subject areas with in-depth examination of the most foundational topics. Birchfield’s IMAGE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS offers a clear presentation that even your beginning students can follow along with higher-level discussions that will challenge your most advanced students. The book effectively balances key topics from the field of image processing in a format that gradually progresses from easy to more challenging material, while consistently reinforcing a fundamental understanding of the core concepts. The book’s hands-on learning approach and full-color presentation allow your students to begin working with images immediately. The book encourages programming as it incorporates algorithmic details and hints, using numerous full-color illustrations and detailed pseudocode to facilitate an understanding of algorithms and aid in implementation.