Image Enhancement—Chemical, Digital, Visual

Abstract

Abstract Digital image processing has become well known through the high quality of some spectacular satellite images. It has developed into a discipline in its own right within information science and now finds application, not only in space travel, but also in such diverse fields as, for example, robotics, medical imaging, and television technology. Image processing also occurs, however, in photographic films and biological visual systems. In these systems, too, recorded images are manipulated for better recognition. This poses the question as to whether similar principles of image processing are operative in these different image handling systems.