Digital Image Processing

Digital Image Processing, 4th Edition, by Rafael C. Gonzalez and Richard E. Woods, is an academic textbook presenting foundational principles in image processing. Published by Pearson to commemorate the title's 40th anniversary, the volume incorporates feedback from a survey spanning 150 institutions in 30 countries.

The textbook emphasizes core fundamentals alongside updated subject areas, including image transforms, spatial filtering, and deep learning. It also examines segmentation techniques such as graph cuts, superpixels, and active contours.

Intended for college seniors and first-year graduate students, the volume assumes prior preparation in mathematical analysis, vectors, matrices, probability, statistics, linear systems, and computer programming. End-of-chapter MATLAB projects provide practical implementation practice.