... of the image at that point.Whenx, y, and the amplitude values of f are all finite, discrete quantities, we call the image a digital image. The field of digital image processing refers to processing digital ... overlap be-tween image processing and image analysis is the area of recognition of indi-vidual regions or objects in an image. Thus, what we call in this book digital image processing encompasses ... image processing is intimately tied to the development of the digital computer. In fact, digital images require so much storage and computational power that progressin the field of digital image...