ABSTRACT

Digital images processing deals with processing of images which are stored in digital form. A digital image is a 2-dimensional representation in the form of a matrix. This chapter describes matrix representation of intensity (grayscale) image and color images. Introduction to digital image processing and its history is also given. There are a number of operations that can be performed on digital images. A brief introduction of basic image processing operations is provided. The anatomy of the human eye and various phenomena associated with human visual perception are described. Some common image file types, such as JPEG, TIFF, PNG etc., are given. A digital image processing.