 | Digital Image Processing (3rd Edition) by Rafael C. Gonzalez
Buy new: $120.00 / Used from: $89.50 Get a firm foundation in the algorithms used in processing individual images. The best of its kind.
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 | Digital Image Processing with Application to Digital Cinema by KS Thyagarajan
Buy new: $78.95 / Used from: $39.44 An image processing book with an emphasis on human visual perception and compression methods with concrete applications to digital cinema included.
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 | Digital Video Processing (Prentice Hall Signal Processing Series) by A. Murat Tekalp
Buy new: $78.40 / Used from: $49.42 A comprehensive and mathematically intensive treatment of digital video processing. Concentrates on motion estimation.
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 | Multidimensional Signal, Image, and Video Processing and Coding by John W. Woods
Buy new: $86.19 / Used from: $56.56 Due in 3/2006, treats video signal processing comprehensively and mathematically with plenty of example problems. Also treats video coding.
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 | Video Processing and Communications (Prentice-Hall Signal Processing Series) by Yao Wang
Buy new: $120.00 / Used from: $60.00 A good survey of all aspects of video processing, though not much depth. Last part of book has unique material on video communications.
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 | Introductory Techniques for 3-D Computer Vision by Trucco
Buy new: $110.70 / Used from: $71.09 This book contains quite a few clearly described algorithms relevant to video processing. Read Shapiro (ISBN 0130307963) first for intro to Computer Vision.
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 | Visual Motion of Curves and Surfaces by Roberto Cipolla
Buy new: $75.00 / Used from: $6.97 Real-time computer vision using video images and differential geometry
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 | Video Demystified, Fourth Edition (Demystifying Technology) by Keith Jack
Buy new: $75.95 / Used from: $39.94 Discusses hardware and some video coding/processing algorithms. Assumes you already have some knowledge of both. Not mathematical at all.
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 | Digital Video and HDTV Algorithms and Interfaces (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) by Charles Poynton
Buy new: $61.56 / Used from: $55.35 A comprehensive non-mathematical guide to all phases of digital video processing, not just HDTV. Accessible but poorly organized.
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 | De-interlacing: A Key Technology for Scan Rate Conversion (Advances in Image Communication) by E.B. Bellers
An academic treatment of deinterlacing. There is no other book that talks about this subject, but the papers that spawned the book are on the web, and I mention them in my review.
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 | MPEG Video Compression Standard (Digital Multimedia Standards Series) (Digital Multimedia Standards Series) by Chad Fogg; Didier J. LeGall; Joan L. Mitchell; William B. Pennebaker
Buy new: $157.99 / Used from: $43.00 Very expensive, but you can write an MPEG-1 video decoder that works by reading this book.
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 | The MPEG-4 Book (IMSC Press Multimedia Series) by Fernando Pereira
Buy new: $75.20 / Used from: $49.95 The only book published so far with this much detail on this standard.
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 | Jim Blinn Corner Dirty Pixels (Jim Blinn's Corner Series) by Jim Blinn
Buy new: $39.94 / Used from: $18.30 This older book talks in detail about subjects that are still timely, and some that are not, such as NTSC/RGB coding.
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 | Handbook of Image and Video Processing (Communications, Networking and Multimedia) by Alan C. Bovik
Buy used from: $136.89 A collection of clear articles on every aspect of video and image processing. Algorithms are described clearly enough to code from them. An essential reference.
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 | Practical Digital Video With Programming Examples in C by Phillip E. Mattison
Buy new: $49.95 / Used from: $6.61 Very old book that still has some use. It has a clear description of Video for Windows upon which DirectShow is based. Some basic video concepts are clearly explained.
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 | Programming Cameras and Pan-Tilts: with DirectX and Java by Ioannis Pavlidis
Buy used from: $125.00 Discusses actual DirectShow and JMF code for interfacing with cameras. Not much of a tutorial, but much can be gleaned by analyzing the well-commented accompanying code.
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 | QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook (Developers Notebook) by Chris Adamson
Buy new: $22.76 / Used from: $4.75 Shows how to process video using the Quicktime API and Java. Many detailed code examples and pointers.
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 | Disappearing Cryptography, Second Edition - Information Hiding: Steganography and Watermarking (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Software Engineering and Programming) by Peter Wayner
Buy new: $45.32 / Used from: $14.71 More of an image processing topic perhaps. A very accessible guide to the watermarking of digital images.
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 | Introduction to Data Compression, Third Edition (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems) by Khalid Sayood
Buy new: $64.76 / Used from: $44.77 A good intro to the theory of compression and all of the popular methods used. Essential knowledge for anyone involved in video processing.
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 | Techniques and Standards for Image, Video, and Audio Coding by K. R. Rao
Buy new: $103.00 / Used from: $9.30 A description of the mathematical concepts involved in coding in general rather than details on individual standards.
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 | Multimedia Signals and Systems (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science) by Mrinal Kr. Mandal
Buy new: $75.96 / Used from: $49.11 A complete in-depth textbook on all aspects of multimedia systems including video. Matlab code is included.
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 | Multimedia Servers: Applications, Environments, and Design (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems) by Dinkar Sitaram
Buy new: $82.95 / Used from: $12.99 Talks at a high level about the issues confronted when designing servers for multimedia data.
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 | Networked Multimedia Systems by S. V. Raghavan
Buy used from: $0.57 Another book at the systems level. Talks about computations and considerations when coding, storing, and transmitting video data.
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 | Visual Information Retrieval (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems) by Alberto del Bimbo
Buy new: $88.95 / Used from: $16.49 This is the most accessible of only two books on the subject. Most chapters deal with images, one chapter is devoted to video retrieval.
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 | Digital Compositing for Film and Video with CDROM (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation) by Steve Wright
Buy used from: $13.90 The most technical of the compositing books. Read "Art & Science of Digital Compositing" first.
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 | Andrew Glassner's Other Notebook: Further Recreations in Computer Graphics by Andrew Glassner
Buy new: $49.00 / Used from: $27.70 Gives details on adding special effects to animations/videos such as lightning and soap bubbles. There is some math plus a very good bibliography.
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 | Hollywood Special Effects with Adobe Premiere Elements 3 by Carl Plumer
Buy used from: $48.22 While these projects take advantage of color and sound techniques for special effects, the same techniques are used for correcting the colors in an oversaturated video clip or matching colors in two clips shot under different lighting conditions. By following this book, you'll learn about timing, splitting clips, matching audio to video, syncing clips, and other practical concepts.
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