1Introduction to Image Processing
This book is the first volume of the book set “Image Engineering” and is focused on image processing.
Image processing has been developed for many years. In its broad sense, image processing comprises a number of techniques for treating images to obtain information from image. With the research and application of image technology, a more suitable term used is image engineering. Image engineering refers to a new discipline comprising all subjects relating to images, in which image processing (in its narrow sense) is an important part. This chapter provides an introduction to image processing, an overview of image engineering, and an outline of this book.
The sections of this chapter are arranged as follows:
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