Image Processing Basics

In today’s modern computers, media information such as audio, images, and video have come to be necessary for daily business operations and entertainment. In this chapter, we will study the digital image and its processing techniques. This chapter introduces the basics of image processing, including image enhancement using histogram equalization and filtering methods, and proceeds to study the pseudo-color generation for object detection and recognition. Finally, the chapter investigates image compression techniques and basics of the video signals.