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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

Pattern class

Software; Image processing

One of a set of mutually exclusive categories into which a pattern can be classified.

Matched filtering

Software; Image processing

A pattern recognition technique using the principle of image matching in which similar patterns are detected by comparing corresponding points of two images.

Concave

Software; Image processing

Pertaining to a region for which at least one straight line segment between two points of the region is not entirely contained within the region. Contrast with: convex.

Convex

Software; Image processing

Pertaining to a region for which a straight line segment between any two points of the region is entirely contained within the region. Contrast with: concave.

Connected

Software; Image processing

Pertaining to a subset of an image, any two points of which can be joined by an arc that is entirely contained within the subset.

Sharp

Software; Image processing

Pertaining to elements in an image that are well defined and readily discernable. Contrast with: blurred.

Blurred

Software; Image processing

Pertaining to elements in an image that are indistinct or not readily discernable. Contrast with: sharp.

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