... state-of-the-art image processing software tools.The theoretical underpin-nings of the material in the following chapters are mainly from the leading text-book in the field: Digital Image Processing, ... spatial fil-tering, filtering in the frequency domain, image restoration and registration, color image processing, wavelets, image data compression, morphological image processing, image segmentation, ... of the image at that point. When x, y,and the amplitude values of are all finite, discrete quantities, we call the image a digital image. The field of digital image processing refers to processing digital...