Image processing

Image processing is the computerized manipulation of images. Some of the many algorithms used in image processing include (on which many others are based), ation, ation, (or ), , , and image compression. These are usually implemented in software but can also use special purpose hardware for speed.
==Description==
Image processing contrasts with computer graphics, which is usually more concerned with the generation of artificial images, and , which attempts to understand (real-world) data by displaying it as an artificial image (e.g. a graph). Image processing is used in and .. 1995-04-12.
===History===
Silicon Graphics manufactured workstations which were often used for high-end image processing in the 1990s. However, the popularity of less-expensive Power Macintosh systems running Adobe Photoshop supplanted them in the marketplace.Whatever Happened to SGI?, Wired. 2004-11-26.
==References==
==External links==
* at Wikipedia
Category:Graphical terminology