Image Processing and Computer Vision Algorithms for Defence Research

About the Monograph

This monograph covers the basic theories and concepts of digital image processing coupled to variety of algorithms to process, analyse, and interpret imagery. This book elaborates on image enhancement techniques, histogram equalisation and adaptive enhancement, spatial filters, image restoration and adaptive filters, edge and line detection techniques, and image segmentation. Various quality metrics for image processing algorithms are also provided along with hardware implementation of image processing algorithms. It provides detailed technical explanation, mathematical derivations with numerical example for many of the image processing algorithms. The purpose has mainly been to provide scientists, researchers, and students with a first-hand experience of image processing along with good understanding of the theory and algorithms for image processing through simple exercises.

About the Author

Dr Jharna Majumdar obtained her BTech in ECE and DIIT in Computer Technology from IIT, Kharagpur in 1969 and 1970, respectively. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1980. She has more than 30 years of professional career in the country and abroad. During 1983-1989, she worked as a Research Scientist at the Institute for Real Time Computer Systems and Robotics, Karlsruhe, Germany. She joined DRDO at Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (CAIR), Bangalore in 1990 and worked in research areas related to robot vision. She later joined Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), Bangalore in 1995 and worked for the UAV programmme of ADE. She is presently working as Dean R&D and Professor, Computer Science and Engineering at Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bengaluru. Her research interests are: UAV image exploitation, automatic target recognition, change detection, multi sensor fusion, etc. She has 65 papers to her credit. She has received certificate of appreciation from the President, Stanford Research International, California. She is a member of IIPR, IEEE and Fellow of Aeronautical Society of India