S. Qureshi (October 2004)

This directory contains sample images used in the book. Most have been converted to 24-bit RGB
images so they can be read in by the Image8bpp class. Many of them are standard image
processing test images in the public domain, some are those taken by the author with a digital
camera (and I give you permission to use them), and acknowledgements for the remainder follow:

o xray-srs.bmp (courtesy of SRS-X, www.radiology.co.uk/srs-x)
o tanks.bmp (courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories)
o hills.bmp (courtesy of http://philip.greenspun.com)

Please respect the ownership of the above images and do *not* redistribute them without explicit 
permission from their owner.

Some useful online image databases may be found at the following URLs:

o http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/cil/ftp/html/txtv-images.html
o http://www.ece.utk.edu/~gonzalez/ipweb/image_gallery.htm
o http://sipi.usc.edu/services/database/Database.html

Some of the monochrome images are actually stored as RGB BMP images. To convert such images to
8 bpp monochrome images in MATLAB use the following command (which requires the Image Processing
Toolkit):

I = rgb2gray(imread('coins1.bmp'));
