Digital Image Processing (Gonzalez and Woods)

Digital Image Processing, as described by Gonzalez and Woods, involves using computers to analyze, enhance, and manipulate images for better understanding or visual quality. It encompasses techniques like adjusting brightness, sharpening details, removing noise, or detecting objects within an image. These processes convert pictures into digital data, apply mathematical algorithms, and then produce improved or useful versions. This field is widely used in areas such as medical imaging, satellite data analysis, and photography, enabling more accurate interpretation and visualization of visual information through systematic computer-based methods.