If we remember from the image processing pipeline described in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Image Processing, the immediate next step after image acquisition is image pre-processing. Images are often corrupted by random variations in intensity and illumination or have poor contrast, and therefore can't be used directly and need to be enhanced. This is where the filters are used.
Filtering in the frequency domain (HPF, LPF, BPF, and notch filters)
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