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What Is Image Processing

Image processing is the study of algorithms that take images as input and output other images. It includes tasks like image display, editing, enhancement, feature detection, and compression. Image processing has applications in astronomy, biology, medicine, security, satellite imagery, and personal photos. It is related to fields like computer vision, image analysis, and computer graphics. Mathematics like calculus, linear algebra, and Fourier transforms play an important role in image processing.

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What Is Image Processing

Image processing is the study of algorithms that take images as input and output other images. It includes tasks like image display, editing, enhancement, feature detection, and compression. Image processing has applications in astronomy, biology, medicine, security, satellite imagery, and personal photos. It is related to fields like computer vision, image analysis, and computer graphics. Mathematics like calculus, linear algebra, and Fourier transforms play an important role in image processing.

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Introduction: What is Image Processing?

CS 4640: Image Processing Basics

January 10, 2012

What is Image Processing?


Denition
Image processing is the study of any algorithm that takes an image as input and returns an image as output. Includes: Image display and printing Image editing and manipulation Image enhancement Feature detection Image compression

Applications of Image Processing


Astronomy Biology

Credit: Dartmouth Electron Microscopy Facility Credit: NASA, Jeff Hester, and Paul Scowen (Arizona State) More info here

Applications of Image Processing


Medicine Security, Biometrics

Credit: Dr. Janet Lainhart, UofU Psychiatry

Applications of Image Processing


Satellite Imagery Personal Photos

Credit: Tom Fletcher Credit: NASA

Example: Noise Removal


Noisy Image Denoised Image

Example: Contrast Adjustment

Low Contrast

Original Contrast

High Contrast

Example: Edge Detection

Example: Region Detection, Segmentation

Example: Image Compression

Original, 2.1MB

JPEG Compression, 308KB (15%)

Example: Digital Inpainting


Damaged Image Restored Image

Credit: M. Bertalmio, G. Sapiro, V. Caselles, C. Ballester: Image Inpainting, SIGGRAPH 2000

Relationship to Other Fields


Image Analysis involves extracting meaningful information from an image
Image segmentation Image matching and comparison Medical diagnosis from an image

Computer Vision strives to emulate the human visual system and interpret our 3D world from 2D images or video
Object recognition Motion tracking 3D shape from multiple 2D images

High-level

Computer Vision
Object detection, recognition, shape analysis, tracking Use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Image Analysis
Segmentation, image registration, matching

Low-level

Image Processing
Image enhancement, noise removal, restoration, feature detection, compression

Relationship to Graphics and Visualization

Computer Graphics and Visualization deal with the synthesis of images Image processing techniques are often used to improve the visual quality of synthesized images Examples:
Image enhancement Compression Image warping, blending and morphing

Graphics Example: Anti-aliasing

Aliased Rendering

Anti-aliased Rendering

Mathematics in Image Processing

Calculus Linear Algebra Probability and Statistics Differential Equations (ODEs and PDEs) Differential Geometry Harmonic Analysis (Fourier, wavelets, etc)

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