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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
Edge enhancement
Software; Image processing
An image enhancement technique in which edges are sharpened by increasing the contrast between the grey levels of the pixels on opposite sides of the edge.
Contour encoding
Software; Image processing
An image compression technique in which a region that has a constant grey level is encoded by specifying only its border.
Interframe coding
Software; Image processing
An image compression technique in which a sequence of images is compressed by taking advantage of redundancies between successive images.
Grey level
Software; Image processing
A value associated with a pixel in a digital image, representing the brightness of the original scene in the vicinity of the point represented by the pixel.
Image analysis
Software; Image processing
The process of describing or evaluating an image in terms of its parts, properties, and relationships.
Picture processing
Software; 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.
Pattern recognition
Software; Image processing
The analysis, description, identification, and classification of objects or other meaningful regularities by automatic or semiautomatic means.
