Oge Marques, PhD is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, a Professor of Biomedical Science (Secondary) in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, and a Professor of Information Technology (by courtesy), in the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) (Boca Raton, FL).

He is the author of 12 technical books, one patent, and more than 130 refereed scientific articles on image processing, medical image analysis, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

Dr. Marques is a Senior Member of both the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), Fellow of the NIH AIM-AHEAD Consortium, Fellow of the Leshner Leadership Institute of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Tau Beta Pi Eminent Engineer, and member of the honor societies of Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon.

Gustavo Benvenutti Borba, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and the Graduate School on Biomedical Engineering at the Federal University of Technology-Paraná (UTFPR) (Curitiba, Brazil).

He obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering from UTFPR. He is the author of more than 30 refereed scientific articles on image processing, image retrieval, and related topics.

I Basic Image Processing: Acquisition and Visualisation
Recipe 1: Loading, Displayng and Savng Images
Recipe 2: Image Conversion
Recipe 3: Image Acquisition Using a Webcam
Recipe 4: Browsing Through Images

II Geometric Operations

Recipe 5: Geometric Transformations
Recipe 6: Image Warping

III Histograms

Recipe 7: Histograms and Statistcs of Grayscale Images
Recipe 8: Histogram Equalization and Histogram Matching
Recipe 9: Individual Channel Histograms of Color Images
Recipe 10: Combined Color Histograms and Dominant Colors in an Image

IV Point Transformations

Recipe 11: Intensity Transformation Functions
Recipe 12: Custom Point Transformation Functions
Recipe 13: Gamma Corrections
Recipe 14: Leveling Non-Uniform Illumination

V Spatial Filtering and Special Effects

Recipe 15: Smoothing Filters
Recipe 16: Sharpening Filters
Recipe 17: Other Image Filters and Special Effects

VI Image Segmentation

Recipe 18: Image Binarization
Recipe 19: Region-Based Segmentation
Recipe 20: Image Segmentation Using K-Means Clustering
Recipe 21: Superpixel Oversegmentation Using SLIC
Recipe 22: Graph-based Segmentation

VII Binary Image Analysis

Recipe 23: Finding, Counting and Accessing Connected Components in Binary Images
Recipe 24: Basic Morphological Operations
Recipe 25: Computing COnnected Components' Features

VIII Color Image Processing

Recipe 26: Converting Among Different Color Spaces
Recipe 27: Color Image Adjustments
Recipe 28: Image Pseudocoloring

IX Batch Processing and Handling Large Images

Recipe 29: Processing Very Large Images
Recipe 30: Batch Processing a Set of Images