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Terminology

At the beginning of each chapter (and sometimes at the beginning of a major section within a chapter) are tables that serve as glossaries of words you need to know to understand the information in the chapter. These tables clarify how we use terms that may be used in several different ways in image processing literature. For example:

• Sometimes in the field of image processing, one word is used to describe more than one concept. For example the resolution of an image can describe the height and width of an image as a quantity of pixels in each direction, or it can describe the number of pixels per linear measure, such as 100 dots per inch.
• Sometimes in the field of image processing, the same concepts are described by different terminology. For example, a grayscale image can also be called an intensity image.

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