ABSTRACT
In Section I of the book, Introduction to Image Processing and Analysis, we discussed the distinction between image processing for human vision applications and for computer vision applications, and then took an overall view of imaging systems. In Section II, Digital Image Analysis and Computer Vision, we related how image analysis is used for both types of applications, and that a computer vision system is essentially a deployed image analysis system. In our exploration of image analysis, we discovered that the output is some form of higher level image representation that can be used for analysis or in some applications pattern classification. Here, in Section III, Digital Image Processing and Human Vision, we will explore those application areas that involve processing images for human consumption. In other words, we want to process the images and produce better images. Better is what sense?—enhanced, restored, or compressed.
