The technological developments of the last ten years have made com puter graphics and image processing by computer popular. Pictorial pat tern recognition has also shown significant progress. Clearly, there exist overlapping interests among the three areas of research. Graphic displays are of concern to anyone involved in image processing or pic torial pattern recognition and many problems in graphics require methodologies from image processing for their solutions. The data structures used in all three areas are similar. It seems that there is a common body of knowledge underlying all three areas, pictorial informa tion processing by computer. The novelty of these fields makes it difficult to design a course or to a write a book covering their basic concepts. Some of the treatises on graphics focus on the hardware and methods of current interest while treatises on image processing often emphasize applications and classical signal processing. The fast evolution of technology causes such material to lose its relevance. For example, the development of optical fibers has reduced the importance of bandwidth compression.

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Bell Laboratories, USA

Theo Pavlidis

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Book Title: Algorithms for Graphics and Image Processing
Authors: Theo Pavlidis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93208-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Computer Science Press, Inc. 1982
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-93210-6Published: 16 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-93208-3Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 448
Topics: Computer Graphics, Image Processing and Computer Vision

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