Digital Image Processing and Image Acquisition

Bernd Jähne is senior professor at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) and the Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP) of Heidelberg University. From 2008 to 2017 he was coordinating director of the Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image processing (HCI), an industry-on-campus project of Heidelberg University and from 2008 to 2016 deputy director of the IWR. He is also founder and chair of the Heidelberg Image Processing Forum since 1995, chair of the EMVA 1288 standardization group since 2008, and vice president of the European Machine Vision Association from 2021 -2024. He is author of a several text books and handbooks on Digital Image Processing and Computer Vision published in German, English, and Russian language.

• Introduction.- IMAGE FORMATION: Radiation and Quantitative Image Formation.- 2-D Image Acquisition.- Radiation Detection and Image Sensors.- Sampling and Interpolation.- Discrete Image Representation.- Radiometric and Geometric Image Correction.- 3-D Image Acquisition and Light Fields.- 3-D Imaging with Active Illumination.- IMAGE PROCESSING: Neighborhood Operators and Local Structure.- Averaging and Noise Suppression.- Discontinuities: Edges, Lines, Surfaces, and Corners.- Local Orientation, Local Wave Number and Phase.- Motion.- Scale Spaces and Multigrid Structures.- Textur and Complex Features.- Regularization and Modeling.- Morphology and Form Analysis.- MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATION AND REFERENCE MATERIAL: Notation.- Vector Spaces and Unitary Transforms.- Statistics, Regression and Optimization.- Reference Material.