What are image processing & computer vision?

Question 1

What is image processing?

Answer 1

“MANIPULATING a digital image to GENERATE a second image that DIFFERS in some respects from the first”

Question 2

What is computer vision?

Answer 2

Extracting numerical or symbolic information from images

Question 3

What counts as a data source in image processing?

Answer 3

“Anything that can generate a SPATIALLY COHERENT measurement of some property”

Question 4

What energy sources can produce the data?

Answer 4

gamma, 
x, 
visible, 
microwave, 
radio,
sound

Question 5

Sample applications of vision systems?

Answer 5

Optical character recognition
Biometry (Facial recognition is a subset of this)
Aerial Photography

Question 6

What are some degradations the enhancement component of a comp vision system might have to remove?

Answer 6

• camera movement
• atmospheric conditions
• lighting
• lens
• altitude

Question 7

What constitutes as a feature in an image, other than objects or areas?

Answer 7

The boundary between regionsi

Question 8

What term do we use to describe the number of pixels in an image? (should act. be in Image rep chap 2 deck oops)

Answer 8

Spatial resolution

Question 9

What is frames/second a measure of? (chap 2 deck)

Answer 9

Temporal resolution

Question 10

What term do we use to describe the safes of grey/colours in an image?(chap 2 deck)

Answer 10

Amplitude resolution