Overview: Image Preprocessing

Preprocessing algorithms frequently form the first processing step after capturing the image, as you will see in many of the examples in the following chapters. Therefore, we will start the overview chapters with an introduction to image preprocessing. A more comprehensive overview of preprocessing algorithms can be found in Klette and Zamperoni. 1996. To give a clear conceptual idea of the effect of the various operations we will use very simple synthetic sample images in this chapter. The application examples in the following chapters use many of these algorithms on real-world industrial images.