The sixth edition of this worldwide used textbook was thoroughly - vised and extended. Throughout the whole text you will ?nd numerous improvements, extensions, and updates. Above all, I would like to draw your attention to two major changes. Firstly, the whole textbook is now clearly partitioned into basic and advanced material in order to cope with the ever-increasing ?eld of di- talimageprocessing. Themostimportantequationsareputintoframed boxes. The advanced sections are located in the second part of each chapter and are marked by italic headlines and by a smaller typeface. In this way,...

Image sequence processing is becoming a tremendous tool for analyzing spatio-temporal data in all areas of natural science. It is the key to studying the dynamics of complex scientific phenomena. Methods from computer science and the field of application are merged, establishing new interdisciplinary research areas.