Chapter 6
Point Operations
Beginning with this chapter, the focus is on how specific image processing operations may be implemented on an FPGA. The next few chapters describe preprocessing and other low level operations. Later chapters move to intermediate level operations.
An assumption in the next few chapters (unless stated otherwise) is that the 
-bit pixels represent unsigned values from 0 to 
. Most of the examples here will be given with 
bits.
6.1 Point Operations on a Single Image
The simplest class of image processing operations is that of point operations. They are so named because the output value for a pixel depends only on the corresponding pixel value of the input image:
where 
is some arbitrary function. Since the output value depends only on the input value and not on the location of the pixel in the image, point operations may be represented by a mapping or transfer function, as shown in Figure 6.1.
Figure 6.1 A point operation maps the input pixel value, , to the ...
