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From: David Doria on 28 Jun 2010 11:00
Hi Matlab users,

I have offered to head up a book called "A Practical Introduction to Image Processing" for the GlobalText project http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/ . Their mission is to have people write "open access" text books and then freely distribute them throughout the world. The project leaders thought an image processing book would be well received.

My intent is to convert the topics present in this document : http://engineeringnotes.net/Notes/EE/ImageProcessing.pdf into a short book. I do not want to get into signal/sampling theory and the "big fancy" equations of the transforms, etc, but I would like to expose practical image processing concepts in a "non-mathy" way, to be understood by non-experts and readily applied.

Is anyone interested in helping with this? I have started a "sign up" sheet here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AsyIfGqnlfSodFF0aC01V1FJbmFtLUJtc28yMURGa0E&hl=en&authkey=CKXKgYQH . It would be great if we could have a "one topic per person" type of participation, and then I would take the responsibility of "gluing" it all together.

I have started some work here: https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcyIfGqnlfSoZGdqaGhnMnJfMTQ2ZndycXA5ZGQ&hl=en&authkey=CNKAkccI
GlobalText has an OpenOffice template that we will switch to soon - they are setting us up an account on O3Spaces.

Let me know what you think!

Thanks,

David Doria
daviddoria(a)gmail.com
From: ImageAnalyst on 28 Jun 2010 12:30
Fine idea if you can get people to contribute to it. I just don't
have the time to make a free image processing book for people. There
are already fine books out there (some that use MATLAB including Steve
Eddins book) and there is a lot of free material on image processing
in wikipedia. Plus there are numerous online tutorials and courses
such as
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~tpp/G5BVIS/lectures.html
http://www.ph.tn.tudelft.nl/Courses/FIP/noframes/fip-Contents.html
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/CVonline/generic.htm#genhough
http://sharp.bu.edu/~slehar/fourier/fourier.html
http://www.jhlabs.com/ip/blurring.html

In the meantime, there's a nice free pre-publication version of
Richard Szeliski's (Microsoft) book here: http://szeliski.org/Book/
if anyone wants to check it out (has a chapter on face recognition -
an ever-popular topic in this newsgroup!)

But good luck with it. It could be helpful to people.
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