General Technical Discussion

[eteam00]

Ok, this book (or the other one, I don't remember) has an entire chapter explaining what light is. I'm physicist, with Laser technologies as speciality. So I don't need this kind of knowledge. The book you suggest may be good as a complement: I'm a design engineer looking for practical stuff.

Even a 'practical' design engineer occasionally needs to refer back to basic principles.  My eyes glaze over from academic papers as much as the next guy, but neither author falls into the category of academia-babbler.

Furthermore, if you are interested in video display (gamma, display technologies, hardcopy) or image processing (gamut, colour space), it is very much worth your while to read these subjects with a common understanding of "light" as it applies to these subjects.  Your background with lasers no more qualifies you for video image processing than my background with image processing qualifies me to design pulsed laser power supplies.

Beyond the subjects of "light", basic principles of sampling and reconstruction systems are also critical to proper design of imaging systems.

Finally, books which overlap in content are better than a selection of books which leave gaps, right?

Again: Do you know something on FPGA video processing books ?Please , don't worry if they're more focused in video compression standards, COMB filters, ...just list some of them and comment its main advantages/inconvenients. From a reader viewpoint, please. And only if you know the stuff.

My knowledge of video processing in FPGA is derived from experience with imaging systems and sampling systems, so my familiarity with books on FPGA video processing, specifically, is nil.

To aid those who might be in a better position to help you, providing keywords for them would be to your benefit.  For example:

video compression, MPEG4, desktop video, satellite video distribution, packet video, sonet, streaming video standards, etc. etc.

- Bob Elkind

[cobb]

Hi,

No, I have not basic background on video processing. I would divide what I'm interested in two differentiated topics:

1) Video processing basics. I'm mainly interested in TV standards (DVB, MPEG,...) and image correction algorythms. I have the basics on digital signal processing (FIR, IIR filtering, multirate processing, spectral  estimation, adaptative filtering,...). Any good book in those fields?

2) FPGA video/image processing. I. I own a Virtex-4 SX development kit with video ADC/DAC . Together with a camera or optical sensor I would have a basic full platform for prototyping video processing systems.I 'm looking for a book with practical suggestions for projects on spatial image correction (pixel by pixel basis) , motion detection. So far , the stuff I've checked looks like very theoretical, and not implementation aimed. Any idea?

Regards,

cobb

[cobb]

Obviously you don't get the point, eteann. By this time you have provided two very basic books. 

Ok, I sit down , I read the whole book and then I know what Light is  (Wave or Matter...what a mistery..!) And then what?

Look, I prefer to have some basic examples to work on, and explore implementation aspects by modifying them. After that, I go back for the specific subset of theoretical concepts and gain more background on them. An afterr that , I design my whole custom made system, if it turn out to be interesting/practical or I do have time for that.

This is useful, and it's the way I've been doing in engineering for many years. And someone pays me for that, so it turns out to be a good modus operandi.

Sugar, this time?

cobb

[eteam00]

Cobb, it seems I'm unable to help you.  Good luck to you, and please report back with your progress that others (myself included) can benefit from (some of) what you've learned.

- Bob Elkind

[cobb]

Sure.