Digital Imagery: Fundamentals
Vittorio Castelli, Lawrence D. Bergman · 2001
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the topics covered in this book. It first describes several applications of digital imagery, some of which are covered in Chapters 2 to 5. The main technological factors that support the management and exchange of digital imagery, namely, acquisition, storage (Chapter 6), database management (Chapter 7), compression (Chapter 8), and transmission (Chapter 9) are then discussed. Finally, a section is devoted to content-based retrieval, a large class of techniques specifically designed for retrieving images and video. Chapters 10 to 17 cover these topics in detail.