6.2 What Is Digital Image Processing?
Digital photography is a popular way to produce photographs. Indeed, it sometimes seems as if almost everyone has either a camera on their cell phone or a digital camera, or both, as well as software that can organize and manipulate photographs. In this chapter, we consider digital images and many of the techniques that can be used to modify and enhance them.
Digital image processing uses algorithms to edit and manipulate digital images. A digital image is a collection of tiny, discrete picture elements called pixels. These pixels are organized in a two-dimensional grid and represent the smallest amount of picture information that can be referenced. If you look closely at an image, you may notice that pixels ...
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