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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.

Contributors in Image processing

Image processing

Pictorial pattern recognition

Software; Image processing

The recognition of patterns in visual or pictorial data.

Grey scale

Software; Image processing

The range of grey levels that occur in an image.

Statistical pattern recognition

Software; Image processing

An approach to pattern recognition that uses probability and statistical methods to assign patterns to pattern classes.

Structural pattern recognition

Software; Image processing

An approach to pattern recognition in which patterns are represented in terms of primitives and relationships among those primitives in order to describe and classify pattern structure.

Predictive coding

Software; Image processing

An image compression technique that uses the grey levels of preceding pixels to predict the grey level of the current pixel, so that only the difference between the predicted and measured value needs ...

Grey scale manipulation

Software; Image processing

An image enhancement technique in which the appearance of a digital image is improved by applying a point operator to each pixel in the image, adjusting its grey level.

Run length encoding

Software; Image processing

An image compression technique in which the rows of an image are represented as sequences of runs, each with a given run length and grey level.

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