Digital Image Processing: 
                                                Introduction 
                            Slides by Brian Mac Namee 
                                         Brian.MacNamee@comp.dit.ie 
                                          Materials found at: 
              Slides: http://www.comp.dit.ie/bmacnamee/materials/dip/lectures/ImageProcessing1-Introduction.ppt   
            Lectures: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/BOOKS/VERNON/  
                                Course Website: http://www.comp.dit.ie/bmacnamee 
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          “Digital Image Processing”, Rafael C.  
          Gonzalez & Richard E. Woods,  
          Addison-Wesley, 2002 
       –Much of the material that follows is taken from 
        this book 
          “Machine Vision: Automated Visual  
          Inspection and Robot Vision”, David  
          Vernon, Prentice Hall, 1991 
       –Available online at: 
        homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/BOOKS/VERNON/ 
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   This lecture will cover: 
     –What is a digital image? 
     –What is digital image processing? 
     –History of digital image processing 
     –State of the art examples of digital image 
       processing 
     –Key stages in digital image processing 
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