Digital images are the central theme of this book, and unlike just a few years ago, this term is now so commonly used that there is really no reason to explain it further. Yet, this book is not about all types of digital images, and instead it focuses on images that are made up of picture elements, more commonly known as pixels, arranged in a regular rectangular grid.
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(2008). Digital Images. In: Digital Image Processing. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-968-2_2
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