CS/ECE 545 Notes

This is an index to information that may be useful. Please make suggestions for additions or improvements.

UNIX a short listing of some UNIX commands
Emacs: a summary of important commands for the emacs text editor
gcc: compiler for C and C++. Complete information is available from the Free Software Foundation.
Java: Everything is available from the Sun Microsystems Java Site.

TN Cornswet, Visual Perception (1970, Academic Press), out of print.
BA Wandell, Foundations of Vision (1995, Sinauer Associates), ISBN 0-87893-853-2.

MA Abramowitz and IA Stegun, Handbook of Mathematical Functions (1965, Dover). This is a useful compilation of mathematical information, including integrals.
IS Gradshteyn and IM Ryzhik, Table of Integrals, Series, and Products, 5th Ed. (1994 Academic Press), ISBN 0-12-294760-6. Anther widely used book of general mathematical information.

RN Bracewell, The Fourier Transform and Its Applications (1966, McGraw-Hill), ISBN 0-07-007015-6. This is a good introduction to the properties of the FT.
RN Bracewell, The Hartley Transform (1986 Oxford Univ), ISBN 0-19-503969-6.. Out of Print. This is an excellent book on transforms in general and the Hartley Transform in particular.
DE Dudgeon and RM Mersereau, Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing (1984, Prentice-Hall). ISBN 0-13-604959-1. A good source for information on how to extend transform results and methds to multiple dimensions, such as 2D and 3D images.
JF James, A Student's Guide to the Fourier Transform (1995, Cambridge Univ.), ISBN 0-521-46829-9. This is a very short (about 100 pages) introduction to Fourier Transforms. Most of the key properties are covered.
WR LePage, Complex Variables and the Laplace Transform for Engineers (1961, Dover), ISBN 0-486-63926-6. This book combines complex variable theory with engineering transform examples. It is an excellent book for understanding how transforms, as a class, work.
A Papoulis, The Fourier Integral and its's Applications (1962, McGraw-Hill) , ISBN 0-07-048447-3. This is a condensed but classical introductory book about the Fourier transform.
A Papoulis, Signal Processing (1962, McGraw-Hill) , ISBN 0-07-048447-3. This is a dense, complete book about the general process of signal procesing.

RE Blahut, Fast Algorithms for Digital Signal Processing (1985, Addison-Wesley), ISBN 0-201-10155-6. This is a good introduction, with examples, of how to develop and code algorithms to speed up signal processing (including image processing) operations.
RN Bracewell, Two-Dimensional Imaging (1995, Prentice-Hall), ISBN 0-13-062621-X. This is an introductory book about 2D transform theory and how to apply it to images.

JD Murry and W vanRyper, Graphics File Formats, 2nd Ed. (1996, O'Reilly). This is a volumnious book about graphics file formats and how to read/write them and translate between formats. Includes CD-ROM with applications and software fragments.