DRAFT
Chapters end with a Summary, References and Further Reading, and
Problems.
1. Introduction.
2. Digital Image Fundamentals.
3. Image Enhancement in the Spatial Domain.
4. Image Enhancement in the Frequency Domain.
5. Image Restoration.
6. Color Image Processing.
7. Wavelets and Multiresolution Processing.
8. Image Compression.
9. Morphological Image Processing.
10. Image Segmentation.
11. Representation and Description.
12. Object Recognition.
Rafael C. Gonzalez received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University
of Miami in 1965 and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical
engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, in 1967
and 1970, respectively. He joined the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department at University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)
in 1970, where he became Associate Professor in 1973, Professor in
1978, and Distinguished Service Professor in 1984. He served as
Chairman of the department from 1994 through 1997. He is currently
a Professor Emeritus at UTK.
Gonzalez is the founder of the Image & Pattern Analysis Laboratory
and the Robotics & Computer Vision Laboratory at the University of
Tennessee. He also founded Perceptics Corporation in 1982 and was
its president until 1992. The last three years of this period were
spent under a full-time employment contract with Westinghouse
Corporation, who acquired the company in 1989.
Under his direction, Perceptics became highly successful in image
processing, computer vision, and laser disk storage technology. In
its initial ten years, Perceptics introduced a series of innovative
products, including: The world's first commercially-available
computer vision system for automatically reading the license plate
on moving vehicles; a series of large-scale image processing and
archiving systems used by the U.S. Navy at six different
manufacturing sites throughout the country to inspect the rocket
motors of missiles in the Trident II Submarine Program; the market
leading family of imaging boards for advanced Macintosh computers;
and a line of trillion-byte laser disk products.
He is a frequent consultant to industry and government in the areas
of pattern recognition, image processing, and machine learning. His
academic honors for work in these fields include the 1977 UTK
College of Engineering Faculty Achievement Award; the 1978 UTK
Chancellor's Research Scholar Award; the 1980 Magnavox Engineering
Professor Award; and the 1980 M.E. Brooks Distinguished Professor
Award. In 1981 he became an IBM Professor at the University of
Tennessee and in 1984 he was named a Distinguished Service
Professor there. He was awarded a Distinguished Alumnus Award by
the University of Miami in 1985, the Phi Kappa Phi Scholar Award in
1986, and the University of Tennessee's Nathan W. Dougherty Award
for Excellence in Engineering in 1992.
Honors for industrial accomplishment include the 1987 IEEE
Outstanding Engineer Award for Commercial Development in Tennessee;
the 1988 Albert Rose Nat'l Award for Excellence in Commercial Image
Processing; the 1989 B. Otto Wheeley Award for Excellence in
Technology Transfer; the 1989 Coopers and Lybrand Entrepreneur of
the Year Award; the 1992 IEEE Region 3 Outstanding Engineer Award;
and the 1993 Automated Imaging Association National Award for
Technology Development.
Gonzalez is author or co-author of over 100 technical articles, two
edited books, and four textbooks in the fields of pattern
recognition, image processing and robotics. His books are used in
over 500 universities and research institutions throughout the
world. He is listed in the prestigious Marquis Who's Who in
America, Marquis Who's Who in Engineering, Marquis Who's Who in the
World, and in 10 other national and international biographical
citations. He ii the co-holder of two U.S. Patents, and has been an
associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and
Cybernetics, and the International Journal of Computer and
Information Sciences. He is a member of numerous professional and
honorary societies, including Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, Eta Kapp
Nu, and Sigma Xi. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Richard E. Woods earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
His professional experiences range from entrepreneurial to the more
traditional academic, consulting; governmental, and industrial
pursuits. Most recently, he founded MedData Interactive, a high
technology company specializing in the development of hand-held
computer systems for medical applications. He was also a founder
and Vice President of Perceptics Corporation, where he was
responsible for the development of many of the company's
quantitative image analysis and autonomous decision making
products.
Prior to Perceptics and MedData, Dr. Woods was an Assistant
Professor off Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the
University of Tennessee: and prior to that, a computer applications
engineer at Union Carbide Corporation. As a consultant, he has been
involved in the development of a number of special-purpose digital
processors for a variety of space and military agencies, including
NASA, the Ballistic Missile Systems Command, and the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory.
Dr. Woods has published numerous articles related to digital signal
processing and is a member of several professional societies,
including Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, and the IEEE. In 1986, he was
recognized as a Distinguished Engineering Alumnus of the University
of Tennessee.
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