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I am really interested in image processing. I downloaded OpenCV and started playing with it. But I think I lack the knowledge behind image processing. I would like to learn the basic fundamentals of image processing.

I searched for open course from MIT or other universities but didn't seem to find any good tutorial. I did find some slides, but they seem useless without the actually presentation. I searched for online tutorial but mostly they are not for b开发者_开发技巧eginners.

Is there a good online tutorial for image processing for beginners?

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I recommend two books:

(1) R. C. Gonzalez and R. E. Woods, Digital Image Processing, 3rd ed. Prentice Hall, Aug. 2007.

(2) G. Bradski and A. Kaehler, Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library, 1st ed. O'Reilly Media, Oct. 2008.

Visit the OpenCV documentation to get updated reference to the OpenCV functions (the Learning OpenCV book uses version 1.0 but the current version is 2.3). You can buy cheap access to the digital version of the book using Safari Books.

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I really like Rich Szeliski's Computer Vision book which has a nice mix of theory and practice. You can also access the electronic drafts for free.

Other good ones are Hartley and Zissermann's Multi-View Projective Geometry and David Forsyth's Computer Vision: A Modern Approach

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Sometimes the old fashioned way is best. I'd start by looking at what books could help me learn the subject.

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Reading books is IMO definitely the way to go here.

The Learning OpenCV book also contains background information about the image processing tasks that can be executed with OpenCV. It might be a nice way of learning to immediately put in practice what you learn and read.

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The OpenCV Wiki actually lists a few books they recomend, including one from O'Riley which I have always found to be a good source for learning.

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Alan Peters Lectures on Image Processing

http://www.archive.org/details/Lectures_on_Image_Processing

PDF files: http://ia700307.us.archive.org/7/items/Lectures_on_Image_Processing/

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MIT OCW: Biomedical Signal and Image Processing

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See page

This site has tutorials in pdf format explaining how to do basic image processing with Microsoft C# (which is free of charge from Microsoft).

It also introduces and explains the mathematical notation that you will find in image processing books.