Image processing

Image processing

The manipulation of images by computer. Most image-processing techniques involve treating the image as a two-dimensional signal and applying standard signal-processing techniques to it.

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gray scale

Software; Image processing

The range of gray levels that occur in an image.

pictorial pattern recognition

Software; Image processing

The recognition of patterns in visual or pictorial data.

optical image

Software; Image processing

The result of projecting a scene onto a surface. For example, the image of a scene formed on film by a camera lens.

border

Software; Image processing

The set of pixels in a region of a digital image that are adjacent to pixels in the region's complement. Contrast with: interior.

interior

Software; Image processing

The set of pixels in a region of a digital image that are not adjacent to pixels in the region's complement. Contrast with: border.

registered images

Software; Image processing

Two or more images of the same scene that have been positioned with respect to one another so that corresponding points in the images represent the same point in the scene.