How does Image Processing relate to a person in daily life?
With the explosion and usage of digital gadgets in our daily lives: such as cameras, ipods, cellphones , unconsciously we are exposed to some aspect of image processing tasks. For example: uploading images from your camera to a website such as picasa or flickr involves data compression. This is one of the major image processing problems.
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: image processingSet of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished using various specialized software applications; and output (e.g., to a printer or monitor). Image processing has extensive applications in many areas, including astronomy, medicine, industrial robotics, and remote sensing by satellites.
This is the book followed in many universities for the Image Processing course.
By Rafael C. Gonzalez, Richard E. Woods
Published by Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007
ISBN 013168728X, 9780131687288
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