Computing an image histogram
An image is made of pixels that have different values. For example, in a 1-channel gray-level image, each pixel has an integer value between 0 (black) and 255 (white). Depending on the picture content, you will find different amounts of each gray shade laid out inside the image.
A histogram is a simple table that gives you the number of pixels that have a given value in an image (or sometimes, a set of images). The histogram of a gray-level image will, therefore, have 256 entries (or bins). Bin 0 gives you the number of pixels that have the value 0, bin 1 gives you the number of pixels that have the value 1, and so on. Obviously, if you sum all of the entries of a histogram, you should get the total number of pixels. ...
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