Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sect. I. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction to digital image and video processing / Alan C. Bovik -- Sect. II. Basic image processing techniques -- 2.1. Basic gray-level image processing / Alan C. Bovik -- 2.2. Basic binary image processing / Alan C. Bovik -- 2.3. Basic tools for image Fourier analysis / Alan C. Bovik -- 2.4. Image processing education / Umesh Rajashekar, Alan C. Bovik, Daniel Sage, Michael Unser, Lina J. Karam and Reginald L. Lagendijk -- Sect. III. Image and video processing -- 3.1. Basic linear filtering with application to image enhancement / Alan C. Bovik and Scott T. Acton --3.2. Nonlinear filtering for image analysis and enhancement / Gonzalo R. Arce, Jan Bacca and Jose L. Paredes -- 3.3. Morphological filtering for image enhancement and feature detection / Petros Maragos -- 3.4. Wavelet denoising for image enhancement / Dong Wei, Umesh Rajashekar and Alan C. Bovik -- 3.5. Basic methods for image restoration and identification / Reginald L. Lagendijk and Jan Biemond -- 3.6. Regularization in image restoration and reconstruction / W. Clem Karl -- 3.7. Multichannel image recovery / Nikolas P. Galatsanos, Miles N. Wernick, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos and Rafael Molina -- 3.8. Multi-frame image restoration / Timothy J. Schulz --3.9. Iterative image restoration / Aggelos K. Katsaggelos and Chun-Jen Tsai -- 3.10. Motion detection and estimation / Janusz Konrad -- 3.11. Video enhancement and restoration / Reginald L. Lagendijk, Peter M. B. van Roosmalen, Jan Biemond, Andrei Rares and Marcel J. T. Reinders -- 3.12. Local and global stereo methods / Yang Liu and J. K. Aggarwal -- 3.13. Image sequence stabilization, mosaicking, and superresolution / Rama Chellappa, S. Srinivasan, G. Aggarwal and A. Veeraraghavan -- Sect. IV. Image and video analysis -- 4.1. Computational models of early human vision / Lawrence K. Cormack -- 4.2. Multiscale image decompositions and wavelets / Pierre Moulin -- 4.3. Random field models / P. Fieguth and J. Zhang -- 4.4. AM-FM image models : fundamental techniques and emerging trends / Joseph P. Havlicek, Peter C. Tay and Alan C. Bovik -- 4.5. Image noise models / Charles Boncelet -- 4.6. Color and multispectral image representation and display / H. J. Trussell -- 4.7. Statistical modeling of photographic images / Eero P. Simoncelli -- 4.8. Statistical methods for image segmentation / Sridhar Lakshmanan -- 4.9. Multiband techniques, texture classification, and segmentation / B. S. Manjunath, G. M. Haley, Wei-Ying Ma and S. D. Newsam -- 4.10. Video segmentation / A. Murat Tekalp -- 4.11. 2D and 3D motion tracking in digital video / Georgios Stamou, Michail Krinidis, Evangelos Loutas, Nikos Nikolaidis and Ioannis Pitas -- 4.12. Adaptive and neural methods for image segmentation / Joydeep Ghosh -- 4.13. Gradient and Laplacian edge detection / Phillip A. Mlsna and Jeffrey J. Rodriguez -- 4.14. Diffusion partial differential equations for edge detection / Scott T. Acton -- 4.15. Shape smoothing and PDEs / Frederic Guichard, Lionel Moisan and Jean-Michel Morel -- 4.16. PDEs for morphological scale spaces and eikonal applications / Petros Maragos -- 4.17. Geometric active contours for image segmentation / Vicent Caselles, Ron Kimmel and Guillermo Sapiro -- 4.18. Software for image and video processing / K. Clint Slatton and Brian L. Evans -- Sect. V. Image compression -- 5.1. Lossless coding / Lina J. Karam -- 5.2. Block truncation coding / Paul Salama, Martha Saenz and Edward J. Delp -- 5.3. Fundamentals of vector quantization / Mohammad A. U. Khan and Mark J. T. Smith -- 5.4. Wavelet image compression / Zixiang Xiong and Kannan Ramchandran -- 5.5. Lossy image compression : the JPEG and JPEG2000 standards / Rashid Ansari, Christine Guillemot and Nasir Memon -- 5.6. The JPEG lossless image compression standards / Nasir Memon, Christine Guillemot and Rashid Ansari -- 5.7. Multispectral image coding / Daniel Tretter, Nasir Memon and Charles Bouman -- 5.8. Recover methods for post processing for compressed images / Yongyi Yang, Nikolas P. Galatsanos and Aggelos K. Katsaggelos -- Sect. VI. Video compression -- 6.1. Basic concepts and techniques of video coding and the H.261 standard / Barry Barnett -- 6.2. Interframe subband/wavelet scalable video coding / John W. Woods, Peison Chen, Yongjun Wu and Shih-Ta Hsiang -- 6.3. Digital video transcoding / Shizhong Liu and Alan C. Bovik -- 6.4. MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video standards / Supavadee Aramvith and Ming-Ting Sun -- 6.5. MPEG-4, H.264/AVC, and MPEG-7; new standards for the digital video industry / Berna Erol, Adriana Dumitras, Faouzi Kossentini, Anthony Joch and Gary Sullivan -- 6.6. Embedded video codecs / Minhua Zhou and Raj Talluri -- Sect. VII. Image and video acquisition -- 7.1. Image scanning, sampling, and interpolation / Jan P. Allebach -- 7.2. Video sampling and interpolation / Eric Dubois -- Sect. VIII. Image and video rendering and assessment -- 8.1. Image quantization, halftoning, and printing / Ping Wah Wong -- 8.2. Perceptual criteria for image quality evaluation / Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Robert J. Safranek and Junqing Chen -- 8.3. Structural approaches to image quality assessment / Zhou Wang, Alan C. Bovik and Eero P. Simoncelli -- 8.4. Information theoretic approaches to image quality assessment / Hamid R. Sheikh and Alan C. Bovik -- Sect. IX. Image and video storage, retrieval, and communication -- 9.1. Image and video indexing and retrieval / Michael A. Smith and Tsuhan Chen -- 9.2. A unified framework for video summerization browsing, and retrieval / Ziyou Xiong, Yong Rui, Regunathan Radhakrishnan, Ajay Divakaran and Thomas S. Huang -- 9.3. Video communication networks / Dan Schonfeld -- 9.4. Wireless video / Fan Zhai, Yiftach Eisenberg and Aggelos K. Katsaggelos -- 9.5. Watermarking techniques for image authentication and copyright protection / Anastasios Tefas, Nikos Nikolaidis and Ioannis Pitas -- 9.6. Visual cryptography : the combinatorial and halftoning frameworks / Gonzalo Arce, Giovanni Di Crescenzo and Zhi Zhou -- Sect. X. Applications of image processing -- 10.1. Synthetic aperture radar algorithms / Ron Goodman and Walter Carrara -- 10.2. Computed tomography / R. M. Leahy and R. Clackdoyle -- 10.3. Cardiac image processing / Joseph M. Reinhardt and William E. Higgins -- 10.4. Computer-aided detection and diagnosis in mammography / Mehul P. Sampat, Mia K. Markey and Alan C. Bovik -- 10.5. Fingerprint classification and matching / Anil Jain and Sharath Pankanti -- 10.6. Face recognition from still images and videos / Shaohua Kevin Zhou and Rama Chellappa -- 10.7. How iris recognition works / John Daugman -- 10.8. Exploiting visual information in automatic speech processing / Petar S. Aleksic, Gerasimos Potamianos and Aggelos K. Katsaggelos -- 10.9. Confocal microscopy / Fatima A. Merchant, Keith A. Bartels, Alan C. Bovik and Kenneth R. Diller -- 10.10. Computer-assisted microscopy / Fatima A. Merchant and Kenneth R. Castleman -- 10.11. Statistical models for Bayesian object recognition / Anuj Srivastava, Michael I. Miller and Ulf Grenander.