Image representation and storage, display, media conversion, painting and drawing, warping, color space operations, enhancement, filtering, and manipulation. Just as digital sound has become the standard for high-quality audio recording, the digital image is becoming the standard form of electronic image.
Digital images have the advantages of lossless storage, transmission, and retrieval.
Their form greatly facilitates generation, manipulation, and display within a computing environment, and they provide a natural syntax for image representation that pervades the world of computer graphics and visualization. Thus, an understanding of the nature, form, and technology of the digital image is essential to a visualization practitioner. This course will provide a thorough grounding in the state of the art in the treatment of digital images. It is designed to prepare students to understand existing systems for storage, display, generation, and manipulation of digital images, and write their own software for working with digital images, and undertake creative work and research involving digital images. Students read, discuss, and are tested on hand-out material, and complete a series of exercises on the computer.