7  Digital images: representation and pixel-level processing

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7.1 The digital image as a signal

7.1.1 Sampling, quantisation and the resulting data model

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7.1.2 Coordinate systems, indexing and boundary conventions

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7.1.3 Colour, greyscale and multi-channel representations

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7.1.4 File formats and lossless vs lossy compression

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7.2 Point operations

7.2.1 Brightness, contrast and gain

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7.2.2 Look-up tables, gamma and tone curves

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7.2.3 Histogram equalisation and adaptive stretching

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7.2.4 Thresholding as a point operation

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7.3 Arithmetic and logical operations

7.3.1 Pixel-wise arithmetic and blending

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7.3.2 Absolute and signed differences

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7.3.3 Masking and region-of-interest operations

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7.3.4 Bitwise operations on binary images

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7.4 Noise models and denoising choices

7.4.1 Gaussian, Poisson and impulse noise models

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7.4.2 Estimating noise from image statistics

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7.4.3 Choosing a denoiser: signal preservation vs artefact suppression

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