Digital Image Processing has been the leading textbook in its field for more than 20 years‎.‎ As was the case with the 1977 and 1987 editions by Gonzalez and Wintz‎,‎ and the 1992 edition by Gonzalez and Woods‎,‎ the present edition was prepared with students and instructors in mind‎.‎ 771e material is timely‎,‎ highly readable‎,‎ and illustrated with numerous examples of practical significance‎.‎ All mainstream areas of image processing are covered‎,‎ including a totally revised introduction and discussion of image fundamentals‎,‎ image enhancement in the spatial and frequency domains‎,‎ restoration‎,‎ color image processing‎,‎ wavelets‎,‎ image compression‎,‎ morphology‎,‎ segmentation‎,‎ and image description‎.‎ Coverage concludes with a discussion of the fundamentals of object recognition‎.‎ Although the book is completely self‎-contained‎,‎ a Companion Website ‎(‎see inside front cover‎)‎ provides additional support in the form of review material‎,‎ answers to selected problems‎,‎ laboratory project suggestions‎.‎ and a score of other features‎.‎ A supplementary instructor‎'‎s manual is available to instructors who have adopted the book for classroom use‎.‎ New Features New chapters on wavelets‎,‎ image morphology‎,‎ and color image processing‎.‎ More than 500 new images and over 200 new line drawings and tables‎.‎ A revision and update of all chapters‎,‎ including topics such as segmentation by watersheds‎.‎ Numerous new examples with processed images of higher resolution‎.‎ A reorganization that allows the reader to get to the material on actual image processing much sooner than before‎.‎ Updated image compression standards and a new section on compression using wavelets‎.‎ A more intuitive development of traditional topics such as image transforms and image restoration‎.‎ Updated bibliography‎.‎