<p>"The main topic of the book is data reconstruction, i.e. curve or surface fitting to a given digital function. This is important for various engineering applications, especially image processing… The present book focuses on the concept of a gradually varied function (GVF) and its applications… The author discusses in §11.3 the ‘natural’ continuity and smoothness. According to him, such notions are not absolute as in the conventional theory in pure mathematics, but rather depend on the scale to be considered. This is an interesting opinion… This is a huge collection of the author’s works on the practical applications of gradually varied functions. It is also a nice textbook for curve/surface fitting.” (S. Hitotumatu, Mathematical Review, MR3013361)</p> <p></p> <p> </p> <p>“The book under review provides an introduction and comprehensive survey of digital function methods and their applications to image data analysis and data reconstruction. This is the first book about this important topic. It is mainly written for graduate students in computer science and for researchers who are interested in digital geometry, computer graphics, and data reconstruction… Without any doubt, this book will be a valuable source of information on digital functions and its applications.” (Manfred Tasche, Zentralblatt MATH, Zbl 06102122)</p>