DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

(DIP)
By

GAUTAM MISHRA

Roll No: 1709714010

Under the Guidance of

DR. RASHI AGARWAL

Dept. of Computer Application

A COLLOQUIUM REPORT
In partial fulfilment of the requirements for Post-Graduation degree
Of

Master of Computer Applications

Department of Computer Applications

GALGOTIAS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND

TECHNOLOGY
1, Knowledge Park-II, Greater Noida-201306
(Affiliated to Uttar Pradesh Technical University. Lucknow)
 Department of Computer Applications

Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida

Certificate

Date: 20.04.2020

This is to certify that the dissertation entitled “Digital Image Processing” by

Gautam Mishra, student of MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS,
[2017-2020] of GALGOTIAS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND
TECHNOLOGY, GREATER NOIDA, affiliated to AKTU, LUCKNOW, is
hereby accepted and approved as a credible work It is further certified that this work
has not been submitted for similar purpose anywhere else. His work has been found
satisfactory for the partial fulfilment of the award of the degree of MCA.

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Galgotias College of Engineering Galgotias College of Engineering

And Technology, Greater Noida and Technology, Greater Noida
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I, Gautam Mishra hereby declare that the project work entitled Digital Image
Processing is an authenticated work carried out by me Under the guidance of Dr.
Rashi Agarwal for the partial fulfilment of the award of the degree of MASTER
OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS and this work has not been submitted for
similar purpose anywhere else except to GALGOTIAS COLLEGE OF
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, GREATER NOIDA, affiliated to
AKTU, LUCKNOW.

Date: 20-04-2020 Name: Gautam Mishra

Place: Greater Noida Roll No: 1709714010

Galgotias College of
Engineering and
Technology, Greater Noida
 Acknowledgement

It is high privilege for me to express my deep sense of gratitude to all the faculty
members who helped me in the completion of this colloquium port, especially my
internal guide Dr. Rashi Agarwal who was always there at hour of need.

My special thanks to Dr. Gagan Tiwari, HOD- Department of Computer

Applications, Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, for helping me
in the completion of work of this colloquium report.

Name: Gautam Mishra

Roll No.:1709714010

Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology

Greater Noida
DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING
Likely to rule the future digital world

Contents:
Abstract

Introduction

History of Digital Image Processing

Processing an image

Importance of Image data

Applications

Future applications

Advantages and Disadvantages

Conclusion
 ABSTRACT

Vision is a major source of information for human beings. In olden days it was
chimerical and very surprising thing but over the decade the trend has changed by
technological feasts occurring around the world. Image processing has definitely has its
impact on communication devices such as cell phone, web camera.

By using Digital Image Processing we enhance the digital images and extracting
information and features from the image. Because of the computational load of dealing
with images containing millions of pixels, digital image processing was largely of
academic interest until the 1970s, when dedicated hardware became available that could
process images in real time, for some dedicated problems such as television standards
conversion. With the fast computers and signal processors available in the 2000s, digital
image processing has become the most common form of image processing, and is
generally used because it is not only the most versatile method, but also the cheapest.

There are many applications for Image Processing like surveillance, navigation,
and robotics. This technology is more useful in the investigation in Crime Branch.
Digital Image Processing has the advantages as a wider range of algorithm to be applied
to the input data and can avoid the problems such as build-up of noise and signal
distortion during processing. For this the NASA and U.S military have developed
advanced computer software which improves the clarity of and amount of detail visible
in still and video images.

Interest in digital image processing methods stems from two principal application
areas: improvement pictorial information for human interpretation; and processing of
image data for storage, transmission, and representation for autonomous machine
perception.
This paper mainly deals with digital image processing, different stages in image
processing and its profound applications in the present era. This also explains its
applications found in medical, military, Robotics fields. This paper stresses the
importance and its impact in the future.

The main feature Digital Image Editing used for altering and improving images
in an all most endless number of time. The other features of this technology are Image
Size Alteration, Cropping on Image, Removal of Noise and unwanted elements, Image
Compression, merging of images and finally color adjustments and finally advantages
and disadvantages of digital image processing.
 INTRODUCTION:

Digital Image Processing is concerned with acquiring and processing of an image. In

simple words an image is a representation of a real scene, either in black and white or
in color, and either in print form or in a digital form i.e., technically an image is a two
dimensional light intensity function. In other words it is a data intensity values arranged
in a two-dimensional form like an array, the required property of an image can be
extracted from processing an image. Image is typically by stochastic models. It is
represented by AR model. Degradation is represented by MA model.

Other form is orthogonal series expansion. Image processing system is typically

non casual system. Image processing is two dimensional signal processing. Due to
linearity Property, we can operate on rows and columns separately. Image processing is
vastly being implemented by “Vision Systems” in robotics. Robots are designed, and
meant to be controlled by a computer or similar devices. While “Vision Systems” are
most sophisticated sensors used in Robotics. They relate the function of a robot to its
environment as all other sensors do. “Vision Systems” may be used for a variety of
applications, including manufacturing, navigation and surveillance. Some of the
applications of Image Processing are:

1. Robotics. 3. Graphics and Animations.

2. Medical Field. 4. Satellite Imaging
 HISTORY:

Because of the computational load of dealing with images containing millions of pixels,
digital image processing was largely of academic interest until the 1970s, when
dedicated hardware became available that could process images in real time, for some
dedicated problems such as television standards conversion. As general-purpose
computers became faster, they started to take over the role of dedicated hardware for all
but the most specialized and compute-intensive operations.

With the fast computers and signal processors available in the 2000s,
digital image processing has become the most common form of image processing, and
is generally used because it is not only the most versatile method, but also the cheapest.
 IMAGE PROCESSING:

First we see what digital image is?

DIGITAL IMAGE:

A digital image is a representation of a two-dimensional as a finite set of values, called

picture elements or. Typically, the pixels are stored in computer memory or a two
dimensional array of small integers. These values are often transmitted or stored in a
form.

Digital images can be by a variety of input devices and techniques, such as,
scanners, coordinate-measuring machines, seismographic profiling, airborne radar, and
more.

It is an image that was acquired through scanners or captured from digital

cameras. The most common kind of digital image processing is digital image editing .

Image processing is enhancing image or extracting information or features from

an image. Any activity that transforms an input image into an output image. The
manipulation and alteration of images using computer software.

DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING:

Digital image processing is the use of computer to perform on. Digital image
processing has the same advantages (over analog image processing) as has (over analog
signal processing) -- it allows a much wider range of algorithms to be applied to the
input data, and can avoid problems such as the build-up of noise and signal distortion
during processing.
 STAGES IN IMAGE PROCESSING:

S a Solution
P a problem
Recognition and
Interpretation

Knowledge Base
Image Acquisition

IM

Representation and
Description

Preprocessing

Segmentation

1. IMAGE ACQUISITION:
An image is captured by a sensor (such as a monochrome or color TV camera) and
digitized. If the output of the camera or sensor is not already in digital form, an analog-
to digital converter digitizes it.

2. RECOGNITION AND INTERPRETATION:

Recognition is the process that assigns a label to an object based on the information
provided by its descriptors. Interpretation is assigning meaning to an ensemble of
recognized objects.
3. SEGMENTATION:
Segmentation is the generic name for a number of different techniques that divide the
image into segments of its constituents. The purpose of segmentation is to separate the
information contained in the image into smaller entities that can be used for other
purposes.

4. REPRESENTATION AND DESCRIPTION:

Representation and Description transforms raw data into a form suitable for the
Recognition processing.

5. KNOWLEDGE BASE:
A problem domain detailing the regions of an image where the information of interest
is known to be located is known as knowledge base. It helps to limit the search.

THRESHOLDING:
Threshold is the process of dividing an image into different portions by picking a
certain grayness level as a threshold, comparing each pixel value with the threshold,
and then assigning the pixel to the different portions, depending on whether the pixel’s
grayness level is below the threshold or above the threshold value. Threshold can be
performed either at a single level or at multiple levels, in which the image is processed
by dividing it into “layers”, each with a selected threshold. Various techniques are
available to choose an appropriate threshold ranging from simple routines for binary
images to sophisticated techniques for complicated images.

CONNECTIVITY:
Sometimes we need to decide whether neighboring pixels are somehow “connected” or
related to each other. Connectivity establishes whether they have the same property,
such as being of the same region, coming from the same object, having a similar texture,
etc. To establish the connectivity of neighboring pixels, we first have to decide upon a
connectivity path.

NOISE REDUCTION:
Like other signal processing mediums, Vision Systems contains noises. Some noises
are systematic and come from dirty lenses, faulty electronic components, bad memory
chips and low resolution. Others are random and are caused by environmental effects
or bad lighting. The net effect is a corrupted image that needs to be preprocessed to
reduce or eliminate the noise. In addition, sometimes images are not of good quality,
due to both hardware and software inadequacies; thus, they have to be enhanced and
improved before other analysis can be performed on them.

CONVOLUTION MASKS:
A mask may be used for many different purposes, including filtering operations and
noise reduction. Noise and Edges produces higher frequencies in the spectrum of a
signal. It is possible to create masks that behave like a low pass filter, such that higher
frequencies of an image are attenuated while the lower frequencies are not changed very
much. There by the noise is reduced.

EDGE DETECTION:
Edge Detection is a general name for a class of routines and techniques that operate on
an image and results in a line drawing of the image. The lines represented changes in
values such as cross sections of planes, intersections of planes, textures, lines, and
colors, as well as differences in shading and textures. Some techniques are
mathematically oriented, some are heuristic, and some are descriptive. All generally
operate on the differences between the gray levels of pixels or groups of pixels through
masks or thresholds. The final result is a line drawing or similar representation that
requires much less memory to be stored, is much simpler to be processed, and saves in
computation and storage costs. Edge detection is also necessary in subsequent process,
such as segmentation and object recognition.

IMAGE DATA COMPRESSION:

Electronic images contain large amounts of information and thus require data
transmission lines with large bandwidth capacity. The requirements for the temporal
and spatial resolution of an image, the number of images per second, and the number of
gray levels are determined by the required quality of the image. Recent data
transmission and storage techniques have significantly improved image transmission
capabilities, including transmission over the Internet.
 IMPORTANCE OF IMAGE DATA

According to one estimate, more than 75 percent of all the information received by man
is visual. Some researchers arguably consider this figure to be as high as 99 percent!
Even if we consider the conservative estimate, the remaining four senses contribute to
only 25 percent of the total share. And man has known this since ancient times. Probably
that’s the reason why the ancient Chinese coined the now popular proverb, “A picture
speaks a thousand words.” It is very evident that vision is a major source of information
for human beings, and thus if we could possibly provide similar visual faculties to
machines, we shall be able to achieve visual automation for a very broad range of
applications.

Image Processing vs. Computer Graphics:

There generally is a bit of confusion in recognizing the difference between the fields of
Image Processing and Computer Graphics, often even in the minds of tech-savvy
computer professionals. Actually, Image Processing and Computer Graphics are
entirely different, almost the opposite of each other. A computer graphics system is
involved with image synthesis, and not recognition or analysis, as in the case of Image
Processing. The input of a computer graphics system consists of an item list that
describes a scene and its purpose is to transform this list into a digital image, which
could have been formed, if this scene would really exist. Morphing used in
advertisements could be said to be the most commonly witnessed computer graphics
technique. In contrast, input to an Image Processing system is always a real image
formed via some physical phenomenon such as scanning, filming, etc. The main role of
Image Processing is not to create information but to extract it, integrate it, make it
explicit and usable.
Image Editor Features:

Listed below are some of the most used capabilities of the better graphic
manipulation programs. The list is by no means all inclusive. There are a myriad of
choices associated with the application of most of these features.

 Image Size Alteration: Image editors can resize an image, making it larger, or

smaller. High image resolution cameras can produce large images which are
often reduced in size for Internet use. Image editor programs use a mathematical
process called re-sampling to calculate new pixel values whose spacing is larger
or smaller than the original pixel values.\

 Noise Removal: Image editors may feature a number of algorithms which can

add or remove noise in an image. JPEG artifacts can be removed; dust & scratches
can be removed and an image can be de-speckled. Noise tends to invade images
when pictures are taken in low light settings.

 Removal of Unwanted Elements: Most image editors can be used to remove

unwanted branches, etc. using a "clone" tool.

Original Removal of branch at the top of image

 Selective Color Change: Image editors have the ability to selectively change the

Color of specific items in an image.

An example of selective color change, the original is on the right.

 Merging Of Images: Many graphics applications are capable of merging one or

more individual images into a single picture. The orientation and placement of
each image can be controlled. The two images shown here were once individual
studio portraits.

 Change Color Depth: It is possible, using software, to change the color depth of

images. Common color depths are 2, 16, 256, and 16 million colors. The JPEG
and PNG image formats are capable of storing 16.7 million colors (equal to 256
luminance values per color channel). In addition, grayscale images of 8 bits or
less can be created, usually via conversion and down sampling from a full color
image.

An example of converting an image from color to grayscale.

 APPLICATIONS

APPLICATION 1:
Image Processing is vastly being implemented in Vision Systems in Robotics. Robots
capture the real time images using cameras and process them to fulfill the desired action.
Here the usage of sensors/cameras and Edge Detection technique are related to Image
Processing and Vision Systems. By this technique the complexity of using manual
sensors is minimized to a great extent and thereby sophistication is increased. Hence
image processing is used here in the study of robotics.

APPLICATION 2:
In the field of Medicine this is highly applicable in areas like Medical imaging,
Scanning, Ultrasound and X-rays etc. Image Processing is rapidly used for MRI SCAN
(Magnetic Resonance Imaging) and CT SCAN (Computer Tomography). Tomography
is an imaging technique that generates an image of a thin cross sectional slice of a test
piece.

Bone Scan Chest X-Ray Baby Scan MRI SCAN

 ADVANTAGES

1. One of the biggest advantages of digital imaging is the ability of the operator to

manipulate the pixel shades to correct image density and contrast, is called Post
Processing. And perform other processing functions that could result in
improved diagnosis and fewer repeated examinations.
2. Digital imaging allows the electronic transmission of images to third-party

providers, referring dentists, consultants, and insurance carriers via a modem.

3. Digital imaging is also environmentally friendly since it does not require

chemical processing. It is well known that used film processing chemicals

contaminate the water supply system with harmful metals such as the silver found
in used fixer solution.
4. Radiation dose reduction is also a benefit derived from the use of digital systems.

Some manufacturers have claimed a 90% decrease in radiation exposure, but the
real savings depend on comparisons.

DISADVANTAGES

There are also disadvantages associated with the use of digital systems.

1. The initial cost can be high depending on the system used, the number of

detectors purchased, etc.

2. Competency using the software can take time to master depending on the level

of computer literacy of team members. Finally, since digital imaging in dentistry

is not standardized, professionals are unable to exchange information without
going through an intermediary process.
 CONCLUSION

It’s a critical study, which plays a vital role in modern world as it is involved with
advanced use of science and technology. The advances in technology have created
tremendous opportunities for Vision System and Image Processing. There is no doubt
that the trend will continue into the future Over the next few years, the growth of digital
image processing is going to be enormous with new products and technologies coming
out frequently. In order to get the most out of this period, it is going to be important that
image processing planners and developers have a clear idea of what they are looking
for and then choose strategies and methods that will provide them with performance
today and flexibility for tomorrow. . From the above discussion we can conclude that
this field has relatively more advantages than disadvantages and hence is very useful in
varied branches.

REFERENCES:

1. Introduction To Robotics, Analysis, Systems, Applications - Saeed B. Niku

2. Introduction To Digital Image Processing – Anil K. Jain

3. Wikipedia and Google.