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Printing & publishing

The industry concerned with the preparation and distribution of printed material to the general public.

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contour encoding

Software; Image processing

An image compression technique in which a region that has a constant gray level is encoded by specifying only its border.

interframe coding

Software; Image processing

An image compression technique in which a sequence of images is compressed by taking advantage of redundancies between successive images.

run length encoding

Software; Image processing

An image compression technique in which the rows of an image are represented as sequences of runs, each with a given run length and gray level.

predictive coding

Software; Image processing

An image compression technique that uses the gray levels of preceding pixels to predict the gray level of the current pixel, so that only the difference between the predicted and ...

edge enhancement

Software; Image processing

An image enhancement technique in which edges are sharpened by increasing the contrast between the gray levels of the pixels on opposite sides of the edge.

gray scale manipulation

Software; Image processing

An image enhancement technique in which the appearance of a digital image is improved by applying a point operator to each pixel in the image, adjusting its gray level.

contrast stretching

Software; Image processing

An image enhancement technique in which the contrast between image subsets and their complements is increased.