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Image processing -- Digital techniques

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• Image processing
• Digital electronics

• Image processing -- Digital techniques -- Periodicals
• Computer graphics

• Digital image processing

• Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections: Foundations for Technical Standards (second edition, 2006), by Franziska S. Frey and James M. Reilly (PDF at imagepermanenceinstitute.org)
• Introduction to Imaging (revised edition; Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2003), by Howard Besser, ed. by Sally Hubbard and Deborah Lenert (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Image Processing in C (second edition; c2000), by Dwayne Phillips (PDF with commentary in the UK)
• Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access (2000), ed. by Maxine K. Sitts (PDF at nedcc.org)
• Document Image Analysis (electronic executive briefing edition, from authors' original files; first published 1997), by Lawrence O'Gorman and Rangachar Kasturi (PDF at usf.edu)
• Moving Theory Into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives (Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, c2000), ed. by Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger (multiple formats at archive.org)

• International Journal for Digital Art History (2015-) (full serial archives)

• Digital Foundations (electronic "flossified" edition, 2009), by Xtine Burrough and Michael Mandiberg (multiple formats at flossmanuals.net)
• Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite (working version, 2009), by Xtine Burrough and Michael Mandiberg (illustrated HTML at digital-foundations.net)
• Grokking the GIMP (2000), by Carey Bunks (illustrated HTML at linuxtopia.org)
• R Graphics Cookbook (second edition, 2024), by Winston Chang (illustrated HTML with commentary at r-graphics.org)
• Compute!'s Second Book of Atari Graphics (1984) (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)
• Compute!'s First Book of Atari Graphics (1982) (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)
• Compute!'s First Book of Atari (Greensboro, NC: COMPUTE! Books, c1981) (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)
• Computer Graphics Primer (1979), by Mitchell Waite (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)
• GPU Gems 3 (c2008), ed. by Herbert Nguyen (illustrated HTML with commentary at nvidia.com)
• GPU Gems 2 (c2005), ed. by Matt Pharr (illustrated HTML with commentary at nvidia.com)
• GPU Gems (first edition, c2004), ed. by Randima Fernando (illustrated HTML with commentary at nvidia.com)
• Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book (c1997), by Michael Abrash (PDF files at gamedev.net)
• Atari Graphics and Arcade Game Design (c1984), by Jeffrey Stanton and Dan Pinal (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)
• Inside Macintosh: Imaging With QuickDraw (c1994), by Apple Computer, Inc. (PDF at Apple)
• Software Takes Command: Extending the Language of New Media (New York and London: Bloomsbury, c2013), by Lev Manovich (illustrated HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections)
• GNU Image Manipulation Program: User Manual (current version) (illustrated HTML at gimp.org)
• PNG: The Definitive Guide, by Greg Roelofs (HTML at libpng.org)
• The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (free electronic edition, c2004), by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and Aristid Lindenmayer
  • PDF files with commentary at algorithmicbotany.org; site may give security warning
  • PDF files with commentary at Wayback Machine
• Atari Player-Missile Graphics in BASIC (1984), by Philip C. Seyer (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)

• WebGL Insights (Boca Raton et al: CRC Press, c2016), by Patrick Cozzi (PDF with commentary at webglinsights.com)

• Computer Animation Primer (1984), by David Fox and Mitchell Waite (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)

• GPU Gems 3 (c2008), ed. by Herbert Nguyen (illustrated HTML with commentary at nvidia.com)
• GPU Gems 2 (c2005), ed. by Matt Pharr (illustrated HTML with commentary at nvidia.com)
• GPU Gems (first edition, c2004), ed. by Randima Fernando (illustrated HTML with commentary at nvidia.com)

• Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds: Understanding and Designing Expressive Characters (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2014), ed. by Joshua Tanenbaum, Magy Seif El-Nasr, and Michael Nixon (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Virtual Body Language: The History and Future of Avatars; How Nonverbal Expression is Evolving on the Internet (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), by Jeffrey Ventrella (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• D3 Tutorials (original version of Interactive Data Visualization for the Web, which is no longer free online), by Scott Murray (illustrated HTML at alignedleft.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications (prepublication draft, c2010), by Richard Szeliski (PDF with commentary at szeliski.org)

• Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems III, ed. by Dennis R. Crabtree, R. J. Hanisch, and Jeannette V. Barnes (HTML in Canada)

• Annual Review of Vision Science (partial serial archives)

• Programming Computer Vision with Python (prepublication draft, 2012), by Jan Erik Solem (PDF with commentary at programmingconputervision.com)
• Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications (prepublication draft, c2010), by Richard Szeliski (PDF with commentary at szeliski.org)

• What Does the Honeybee See? And How Do We Know? A Critique of Scientific Reason (2009), by G. Adrian Horridge (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Our Digital Rights to the City (London: Meatspace Press, 2017), ed. by Joe Shaw and Mark Graham (multiple formats wth commentary at meatspacepress.com)
• When Things Start to Think (c1999), by Neil A. Gershenfeld (HTML with commentary at kurzweilai.net)
• Designing Computers and Digital Systems Using PDP 16 Register Transfer Modules, by C. Gordon Bell, John Grason, and Allen Newell (illustrated HTML at Microsoft)

• Introduction to Digital Logic, With Laboratory Exercises (Global Text Project, c2010), by James Feher (PDF with commentary at textbookequity.org)

• Entropy and Information Theory (electronic edition, 2000), by Robert M. Gray (PDF at Stanford)
• Sequential Decoding (research monograph #10; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1961), by John M. Wozencraft and Barney Reiffen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cyberpragmatics: Internet-Mediated Communication in Context (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011), by Francisco Yus (PDF at John Benjamins e-Platform)
• Electronic Engagement: A Guide for Public Sector Managers (2007), by Peter John Chen (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2009), ed. by Trevor J. Blank (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Signal Processing for Communications (originally published 2008), by Paolo Prandoni and Martin Vetterli (HTML and PDF with commentary at sp4comm.org)
• Introduction to Digital Filters, With Audio Applications (c2007), by Julius O. Smith (illustrated HTML with commentary at dsprelated.com)
• Mathematics of the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), With Audio Applications (second edtion, c2007), by Julius O. Smith (illustrated HTML with commentary at dsprelated.com)
• The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing, by Steven W. Smith (PDF files with commentary at dspguide.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.