Introduction to Digital Images -- Image Enhancement in the Spatial Domain -- Interpretation and Processing of Images in the Frequency Domain -- Color Science and Color Technology -- Wavelets: Multi-Resolution Image Processing -- Compression and Encoding of Images: Image Formats -- Morphology-Based Image Processing -- Patterns in Images and their Applications -- Psycho-Visual Pattern Recognition: Computer Vision -- Appendix A: Digital Differentiation and Edge Detection -- Appendix B: Elementary Probability Theory -- Appendix C: Frequently Used MATLAB Functions.