Chapter 1
Introduction to Digital Image Processing
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
- To introduce the basic steps in digital image processing.
- To highlight the salient functions of various building blocks in digital image processing.
- To illustrate how to apply image processing concepts in an autonomous system.
- To write a program in C++ to read and display images.
1.1 INTRODUCTION
Digital image processing methods were introduced in 1920, when people were interested in transmitting picture information across the Atlantic Ocean. The time taken to transmit one image of size 256 × 256 was about a week. The pictures were encoded using specialized printing equipment and were transmitted through the submarine cable. At the receiving end, the coded pictures ...
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