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Title: The Pocket Handbook of Imaging Processing Algorithms in C by Harley R. Myler, Arthur R. Weeks ISBN: 0136422403 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 16 August, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $33.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4

Rating: 3
Summary: VERY USEFUL - shows signs of age, mediocre code
Comment: Very useful book. It provides *many* useful algorithms. The book is tiny, 3x5x1 so pound for pound it is a great (and portable!) book.

Some issues however detract from a 5 star rating:

a) The code examples are lame (lots of single letter variables) and poor C idioms, and some silly extra calculations, like counting pixels one at time in a loop when a single multiply would yield the same result.

b)The book feels old even though it was written in 1993. It has a codec for MacPaint files. If this doesn't ring a bell to you, MacPaint was written circa 1985 and it supports two bit images only. Most algorithms are tweaked for the B/W and/or grayscale versions so the reader will have to interpolate/derive her own color versions

C) The descriptions of the algorithms are suboptimal, but heck it is still orders of magnitude more useful than one of the fat texts on the subject. Coupled with the code examples you can easily figure out any non-clear descriptions without having to wade through a giant tome full of pseudo code.

Would I get it again - absolutely. I even made a special place for it (the top of my monitor so it won't get lost).

Rating: 5
Summary: Useful little book
Comment: This book presents many algorithms and their C implementations in alphabetical order. Many of the entries show the result of the algorithm's application on an image. A table of contents groups the algorithms into classes, such as image fundamentals (convolution, correlation), morphological filters, and nonlinear filters. The basic stuff is all there. Also included in the appendix are programs to read and write image data, which can be used in conjunction with the C code listed for each algorithm for a working solution.

The theory is not emphasized, so readers should look elsewhere for that information. However, considering its small size, this book offers a lot of very useful information.

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