Just in time for the new English book edition (available in April 2016), the supporting Java source code has been completely restructured. Here are the most important changes:

• The code repository is now GIT-based (SVN before) and has moved from SourceForge to Bitbucket:
  https://bitbucket.org/imagingbook/imagingbook-public
• The old SourceForge repo still exists but holds no current code and will be retired sooner or later.
• The entire code was “mavenized” and structured according to Maven standards. It will be deployed at a central repository manager (with POM dependencies) in the near future.
• JAR files for plugins and the imagingbook common library have been renamed for better consistency.
• JavaDoc information has been added to all plugin collections. JavaDocs now also link to the underlying Java source code.

W. Burger

We are pleased to announce that the much-anticipated 2nd English edition (2016) of our “professional” book series will be shortly available. The new edition was completely revised and expanded with new content and improved teaching material and has significantly grown in volume to over 800 pages. It contains new chapters on automatic thresholding, filters and edge detection for color images, edge-preserving smoothing filters, non-rigid image matching, and Fourier shape descriptors. Updated Java/ImageJ source code with new chapter materials is available on SourceForge.

NEW: Digital Image Processing — An Algorithmic Introduction Using Java
by W. Burger and M.J. Burge, 2nd edition, Springer London (2016)
ISBN: 978-1-4471-6683-2 (Hardcover), 978-1-4471-6684-9 (eBook)
Find at: Springer | Amazon.com | Amazon.uk | Amazon.de

Download: Table of contents [PDF]

Auch bei der neuesten deutschen Ausgabe ging es (wie immer) nicht ganz ohne Fehler ab. Neben kleineren Typos finden sich im Text leider auch ein paar inhaltlich wichtige Fehler — die zugehörigen Korrekturen sind HIER (German, 3rd edition) zusammengefasst. Vielen Dank an unsere Leser für ihre Rückmeldungen!

We are pleased to announce that the German 3rd edition of our book is finally available. Compared to the previous edition, the content has approximately doubled and we had to omit some of the technical reference material to meet the 800-page limit. We are grateful to our partners at Springer-Verlag for the excellent finishing, full color printing and (very important) for keeping the price at a VERY reasonably level! This publishing project has been ongoing since 2009 and we want to thank all our readers for their faith and patience. We hope that the new book finds good use and was worth the wait. Read more …

The plugin JAR files provided for the different book editions (https://sourceforge.net/projects/imagingbook/files/code/plugins/) are supposed to be downloaded and placed inside the ImageJ/plugins/ folder. If simply placed there, ImageJ should (after a restart) recognize the .jar file as a plugin container and show all plugins in the Plugins menu. However, this only works if the name of the .jar file contains at least one underscore character! All plugin archives were thus renamed tp BurgerBurgeXxx_plugins.jar. Users may either rename local files themselves or download a new copy.

Alternatively (e.g. to edit the plugin code), the plugin .jar archives may be expanded (unzipped) inside the plugins folder. NOTE: Make sure to expand in place (‘here’), i.e., without introducing an additional directory level! The chapter folders must show directly inside the plugins folder:

ImageJ/plugins folder structure after unzipping BurgerBurgeEn1_plugins.jar (for example).

Mac users should be aware that the built-in Archive Utility always unzips to a new folder with the same name as the archive file. In this case, the contained book chapter folders must be moved up manually by one level (into the ImageJ/plugins/ folder).

–Wilhelm

Complete sets of test images are now available for the 3-volume Undergraduate Topics (UTiCS) book edition and the new German (3rd) edition.

For Chapter 6 of UTiCS Volume 3 (Advanced Methods) on “Fourier Shape Descriptors” animated video sequences are available illustrating the coarse-to-fine decomposition of 2D shapes.

Download from https://sourceforge.net/projects/imagingbook/files/images/

The new German edition is scheduled for delivery in Mai 2015.

–Wilhelm

More good news! Our source code section has been completely restructured and ported to SourceForge at https://sourceforge.net/projects/imagingbook/

This repository can be used to browse the latest source code or download pre-packaged JAR files. Dedicated bundles are available for all English and German editions, with ImageJ plugins grouped by book chapter.

JavaDoc information for the common ‘imagingbook’ library is also available at http://svn.code.sf.net/p/imagingbook/code/doc/index.html

Please let us know in the case of any problems!

–Wilhelm

Good news for our German-speaking readers! After a long wait, the new German edition of our popular image processing book will finally be available in June 2015. This edition has been completely revised and comes with substantial additions, thereby almost doubling the original volume to about 800 pages. The ImageJ short reference and the source code collection had to be omitted from the printed version (both are available online at http://www.imagingbook.com) to allow for the additional material. The book is now printed in full color and most illustrations were adapted to make use of the new appearance. Some of the new material covers advanced topics that should make this edition useful as a textbook for both Bachelor and Master level courses. We hope our readers appreciate the added value and find the book more than ever useful for their work. The preface and complete table of contents can be found here.

Digitale Bildverarbeitung: Eine algorithmische Einführung mit Java (X.media.press) Gebundene Ausgabe – Juni 2015

–Wilhelm

Romuald Perrot has reported some errors in the SIFT chapter (Ch. 7) of “Principles of Digital Image Processing – Advanced Methods” (Volume 3). Corrections can be found in the Errata section.
–Wilhelm