Helping readers master digital imaging, this text presents a unified theoretical basis for understanding and designing methods of imaging and image processing. Designed for newcomers to imaging science and engineering, the book covers the subject in its entirety, from image formation to image perfecting. The author avoids using heavy mathematics "This seminal and highly influential monograph focuses on concrete phenomena for understanding and designing methods of imaging and image processing. ? The reader will find a careful discussion of computational imaging, standard material about image reconstruction from sparse sampled data, description of statistically optimal estimation of image numerical parameters, and a presentation of various exercises supported by MATLAB programs."-Christian Brosseau, Optics & Photonics News"this is an excellent in-depth review of the fundamentals of digital imaging, best read for its general foundational content" -Contemporary Physics (Aug 2016)