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Digital Image Processing
After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
- understand the basics of image processing and types of images
- analyze an image and find its features
- perform basic operations on images
- perform advanced morphological operations
- understand image filtering operations
- enhance images and develop various applications
13.1 Introduction
Human beings are predominantly visual creatures. Humans have evolved very precise visual skills; we can identify a face in an instance, we can differentiate colors, and can process a large amount of visual information very quickly. Human beings like images that look pretty. The field of image processing has developed because of this very natural tendency of human beings.
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