Image Processing In C

Image Processing in C Second Edition Dwayne Phillips This first edition of “Image Processing in C” (Copyright 1994, ISBN 0-13104548-2) was published by R & D Publications 1601 West 23rd Street, Suite 200 Lawrence, Kansas 66046-0127 R & D Publications has since been purchased by Miller-Freeman, Inc. which has been purchased by CMP Media, Inc. I recommend reading “The C/C++ Users Journal” now published by CMP Media, Inc. See http://www.cuj.com. c The Electronic Second Edition of this text is Copyright 2000 by Dwayne Phillips. Dwayne Phillips owns the electronic rights of this text. No part of this text may be copied without the written permission of Dwayne Phillips. If you have purchased the electronic edition of this text, you may print a copy. Electronic Edition 1.0, 26 April 2000 The Source Code listed in this text is available at http://members.aol.com/dwaynephil/cips2edsrc.zip Preface This book is a tutorial on image processing. Each chapter explains basic concepts with words and figures, shows image processing results with photographs, and implements the operations in C. Information herein comes from articles published in The C/C++ Users Journal from 1990 through 1998 and from the first edition of this book published in 1994. This second (electronic) edition contains new material in every chapter. The goals of the first edition of this book were to (1) teach image processing, (2) provide image processing tools, (3) provide an image processing software system as a foundation for growth, and (4) make all of the above available to anyone with a plain, garden variety PC. These goals remain the