[vtkusers] Call for volunteers: GlobalText Image Processing Book

[David Doria]

Hi VTK-ers,

I have offered to head up a book called "Practical Image Processing"
for the GlobalText project http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/ . Their
mission is to have people write open access text books and then freely
distribute them throughout the world. The project leaders thought an
image processing book would be well received.

My intent is to convert the topics present in this document :
http://engineeringnotes.net/Notes/EE/ImageProcessing.pdf into a short
book. I do not want to get into signal/sampling theory and the "big
fancy" equations of the transforms, etc, but I would like to expose
practical image processing concepts in a "non-mathy" way, to be
understood by non-experts and readily applied.

Is anyone interested in helping with this? I have started a "sign up"
sheet here:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AsyIfGqnlfSodFF0aC01V1FJbmFtLUJtc28yMURGa0E&hl=en&authkey=CKXKgYQH

It would be great if we could have enough participation so that the
burden on each volunteer is minimal. I have started some of the early
chapters here: https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcyIfGqnlfSoZGdqaGhnMnJfMTQ2ZndycXA5ZGQ&hl=en&authkey=CNKAkccI
so you can get a sense of the style of the book.

Let me know if you're interested! I'm hoping this will also serve as a
nice proof of concept of utilizing the "power of the masses" to
quickly achieve a nice result on a project like this.

Thanks,

David Doria