Chapter 2

Digital Image Representation

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
  • To illustrate how to represent the image in a computer.
  • To describe the image representation in 2D.
  • To explore the use of sampling and quantization to form digital images.
  • To demonstrate the basic relationship between pixels.
2.1 INTRODUCTION

The main objective of this chapter is to introduce and explain several concepts related to digital images and the terminology used in the subsequent chapters. Section 2.2 describes the image representation in 2D and its matrix notation. The concepts of sampling and quantization are introduced in Section 2.3. Section 2.4 deals with some important relationships between pixels that are used throughout this book.

2.2 DIGITAL IMAGE REPRESENTATION ...

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