With crystal clarity, this book conveys the most current principles in digital image processing, providing both the background theory and the practical applications to various industries, such as digital cinema, video compression, and streaming media. With crystal clarity, this book conveys the most current principles in digital image processing, providing both the background theory and the practical applications to various industries, such as digital cinema, video compression, and streaming media. It helps you learn the role of human vision in image visualization. It contains the MATLAB codes used to generate most of the figures and tables listed in the book, as well as a few MATLAB projects. Case studies through out illustrate the practical application of the theory.