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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.
Industry: Printing & publishing; Software
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template matching
Software; Image processing
(1) An image processing technique in which patterns or shapes are detected by comparison with prespecified patterns or shapes called templates. Syn:
cluster
Software; Image processing
(1) In image processing, a set of pixels in a digital image that are close to one another and similar in some way.
cluster analysis
Software; Image processing
(1) The detection and description of clusters in a digital image. (2) The detection and description of clusters in a feature space.
curve
Software; Image processing
(1) The path traced by a point moving continuously in space. (2) A finite set of pixels representing a path as in (1).
background
Software; Image processing
A connected component of a region’s complement such that the connected component completely surrounds the region.
closed curve
Software; Image processing
A curve whose beginning and ending points are the same point.
