Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications

The book I ordered was supposed to be an imported one. But the delivered one is hard bound Indian printed as far as the paper quality shows unlike international acid free quality paper. The printing quality is quite inferior and seems to be done in inkjet printer not printing press. Not satisfactory as the price paid for the original international version but received non international version locally printed book having hazzy images.

In terms of content, Szeliski's book is the definitive reference work on computer vision. The new edition covers the relevant innovations.One flaw of the book is the thin paper. As a result, the text of the next two pages, the back page and the page after that, shines through. I found this quite distracting when reading.

This is a good book, and I would say an essential one to include in your library if you are a computer vision practitioner. But only if you think of it as a giant "survey paper" covering all of computer vision. It is NOT suitable as a textbook for those learning computer vision- much of the math is glossed over quickly, and for many fundamental algorithms you are referred to other papers and textbooks. This includes fundamental algorithms such as RANSAC, a fundamentally important one in computer vision, which is given an incomplete top-level summary (not enough to clarify what it is or enable one to attempt implementing it) and then referenced by several papers.It does have an extensive appendix section referencing numerous software packages and sample data sets that one can use to help learn the field. This is valuable.In short, this would be a good 3rd or 4th book to add to your CV library, but not your first! For this I rated it four stars above. If you are already a seasoned CV practitioner and want to round out your library, this book would be a 5-star investment.

I found that in this book all characters in red are blurred, seemingly not well aligned in offset printing. I think this should not happen for Springer. Could I just return the book to the supplier and exchange for one with better quality, or just return the item with refund?