Image Processing in C

Second Edition

Dwayne Phillips

This ﬁrst edition of “Image Processing in C” (Copyright 1994, ISBN 0-13-104548-2) was published byR & D Publications1601 West 23rd Street, Suite 200Lawrence, Kansas 66046-0127R & D Publications has since been purchased by Miller-Freeman, Inc. whichhas been purchased by CMP Media, Inc. I recommend reading “The C/C++Users Journal” now published by CMP Media, Inc. See http://www.cuj.com.The Electronic Second Edition of this text is Copyrightc

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2000 by DwaynePhillips. Dwayne Phillips owns the electronic rights of this text. No part of this text may be copied without the written permission of Dwayne Phillips.If you have purchased the electronic edition of this text, you may print acopy.Electronic Edition 1.0, 26 April 2000The Source Code listed in this text is available athttp://members.aol.com/dwaynephil/cips2edsrc.zip

Preface

This book is a tutorial on image processing. Each chapter explains basicconcepts with words and ﬁgures, shows image processing results with pho-tographs, and implements the operations in C. Information herein comesfrom articles published in

The C/C++ Users Journal

from 1990 through1998 and from the first edition of this book published in 1994. This second(electronic) edition contains new material in every chapter.The goals of the first edition of this book were to (1) teach image pro-cessing, (2) provide image processing tools, (3) provide an image processingsoftware system as a foundation for growth, and (4) make all of the aboveavailable to anyone with a plain, garden variety PC.These goals remain the same today, but much else has changed. Theupdate to this text reflects many of these changes. The Internet exploded,and this brought a limitless supply of free images to those of us who like toprocess them. With these images have come inexpensive software packagesthat display and print images as well as convert file formats.The operating systems on home desktop and laptop computers have comeof age. These have brought flat, virtual memory models so that it is easyto pull entire image files into memory for processing. This permitted thesoftware revisions that are the basis of this second edition.The software presented in this book will run on any computer using a32-bit operating system (Windows 95, 98, NT and all flavors of UNIX). Icompiled it using D.J. Delorie’s port of the (free) GNU C compiler (DJGPP,see www.delorie.com). It should compile fine using commercially availableC/C++ compilers. The software works on 8-bit, gray scale images in TIFFand BMP file formats. Inexpensive programs are available to convert almostany image into one of these formats.Chapter 0 introduces the C Image Processing System. This chapter tiestogether many of the concepts of the software and how to use it.i