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Image processing

The manipulation of images by computer. Most image-processing techniques involve treating the image as a two-dimensional signal and applying standard signal-processing techniques to it.

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Image processing

Feature

Software; Image processing

In pattern recognition, an attribute of a pattern that may contribute to pattern classification; for example, size, texture, or shape.

Perimeter

Software; Image processing

In image processing, the number of pixels in the border of a region.

Area

Software; Image processing

In image processing, the number of pixels in a region.

Registered images

Software; Image processing

Two or more images of the same scene that have been positioned with respect to one another so that corresponding points in the images represent the same point in the scene.

Optical image

Software; Image processing

The result of projecting a scene onto a surface. For example, the image of a scene formed on film by a camera lens.

Interior

Software; Image processing

The set of pixels in a region of a digital image that are not adjacent to pixels in the region's complement. Contrast with: border.

Border

Software; Image processing

The set of pixels in a region of a digital image that are adjacent to pixels in the region's complement. Contrast with: interior.

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