Steve on Image ProcessingJune 12th, 2009References on my shelfMatt Whitaker asked me in a blog comment recently about the references I keep on my own shelf. Well, first of all I seem to keep fewer things on my bookshelves as the years go by. When I first started at MathWorks I had two tall bookcases in my office, filled with about 25 linear feet of books and journals. I guess I still had the academic's pack-rat habit. Now I'm down to about 5 feet of books in my office, plus about another 5 feet of journals on the team bookcase nearby. I don't actually keep any image processing books in my office (except for my own, of course). When we're studying algorithms for possible use in our products, mostly we are looking at journal papers, and most of those are available online. The 5 feet of journal space on the team bookcase is for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, which for some mysterious reason is still not available in electronic form. [Update: it's available now.] The image processing book that's been the most useful for toolbox development is Soille's Morphological Image Analysis: Principles and Applications. We learned a lot from that book when we were working on morphology functions in Image Processing Toolbox version 3, and I still refer to it regularly. For the occasional digital signal processing theory question, I have two books from my grad school days: Oppenheim and Schafer's Discrete-Time Signal Processing (signed by Schafer!) and Dudgeon and Mersereau's Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing. Most of my bookshelves these days are taken up with software development books:
But perhaps the most important thing on my shelf is my personal gargoyle, who has been watching over me protectively for many years. 
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IEEE transactions aren’t available in electronic form if you don’t pay I think. In a world where internet community mainly founded by scientists so they can exchange scientific information so the science can grow up, some get benefit of this fact to grow up their pockets…However I hope in future my only references will be a pc with a web browser (and optional a printer!!)
Dimitris—I guess my point wasn’t clear; articles from IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence aren’t available in electronic form at all, whether or not you pay. This is different from many (most?) other IEEE journals, and I’ve often wondered about the difference. I am a paying subscriber to several IEEE journals, and I am accustomed to paying to download articles from journals I do not subscribe to. IEEE journals are produced by a staff of people that need to be paid. However, IEEE is a nonprofit organization, and no one is getting rich from IEEE journal subscriptions and article fees.
I have mainly the textbooks I used for my grad courses, Digital Signal Processing by Antoniou, Discrete-Time Control Systems (Ogata), Practical Optimization: Algorithms and Emgineering Applications (Antoniou and Lu), and Fundamental of Matrix Computations (Watkins)
Also, Linux in a Nutshell is always handy. Aside from that, my area is pretty minimalist. As a grad student, my university has access to IEEE and other databases, so I generally review articles electronically.
IEEE PAMI is available in electronic form here!
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=34
I am not very sure why you say it is not. Maybe older issues have not been digitized but all current issues are put online
Ramnath—Thanks for the update. I’m glad to see they have finally done this. The last time I renewed my IEEE membership, the journal was still not available for online subscription.