| Interest in digital image processing methods stems from two principal application
areas: improvement of pictorial information for human interpretation; and
processing of image data for storage, transmission, and representation for autonomous
machine perception.This chapter has several objectives: (1) to define
the scope of the field that we call image processing; (2) to give a historical perspective
of the origins of this field; (3) to give an idea of the state of the art in
image processing by examining some of the principal areas in which it is applied;
(4) to discuss briefly the principal approaches used in digital image processing;
(5) to give an overview of the components contained in a typical,
general-purpose image processing system; and (6) to provide direction to the
books and other literature where image processing work normally is reported. |
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