Preface to the Second Edition viiPreface to the First Edition viiiAcknowledgements ixAbout the Companion Website x1 Introduction 12 Binary Textures 112.1 Shape Grammars 132.2 Boolean Models 212.3 Mathematical Morphology 513 Stationary Grey Texture Images 793.1 Image Binarisation 813.2 Grey Scale Mathematical Morphology 883.3 Fractals and Multifractals 1043.4 Image Statistics 1743.5 Texture Features from the Fourier Transform 2273.6 Markov Random Fields 2633.7 Gibbs Distributions 3013.8 Texture Repair 3484 Non-stationary Grey Texture Images 3714.1 The Uncertainty Principle and its Implications in Signal and Image Processing 3714.2 Gabor Functions 3994.3 Prolate Spheroidal Sequence Functions 4504.4 Local Phase Features 5034.5 Wavelets 5184.6 The Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform 5944.7 Ridgelets and Curvelets 6214.8 Where Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Meet 6734.9 Laws' Masks and the "What Looks Like Where" Space 6974.10 Local Binary Patterns 7274.11 The Wigner Distribution 7354.12 Convolutional Neural Networks for Textures Feature Extraction 754Bibliographical Notes 793References 795Index 801
The late MARIA PETROU was a Greek-born British scientist who specialised in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine vision.SEI-ICHIRO KAMATA is Professor, Graduate School of Information, Production and Systems, Waseda University, Japan.