Chapter 5. Image Processing
Overview
At this point we have all of the basics at our disposal. We understand the structure of the library as well as the basic data structures it uses to represent images. We understand the HighGUI interface and can actually run a program and display our results on the screen. Now that we understand these primitive methods required to manipulate image structures, we are ready to learn some more sophisticated operations.
We will now move on to higher-level methods that treat the images as images, and not just as arrays of colored (or grayscale) values. When we say "image processing", we mean just that: using higher-level operators that are defined on image structures in order to accomplish tasks whose meaning is naturally defined in the context of graphical, visual images.
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