ABSTRACT
The image processing methods described and illustrated in Chapter 2 are ones that have been well accepted and used since the beginnings of computerized image processing. Even before that, some of them (e.g., gamma adjustment and unsharp mask) were performed in conventional darkroom processing with photographic film and prints. As computer power has increased, more computationally intensive algorithms, most of which were known and well documented, but restricted in their application to facilities with large computers, have become practical for implementation on desktop and laptop machines and are part of some current software packages.
