• camera sensors produce discrete outputs
  • image types:
    • binary
      • black and white
      • only binary bits to represent each pixel
    • grayscale
      • allowed more bits to preserve granularity of color
      • 8 bit colors
      • (0-255)
    • color
      • (0-255 * 3)
      • every pixel needs 3D vector to represent (R,G,B)
  • Sampling errors..
    • sampling: sample a location of the image
    • quantization: only using 256 discrete numbers to represent values
  • Resolution - DPI, sampling parameter
    • measure of spatial pixel density
  • Image histogram - simple, cheap representation of images
  • Color images are stored as m x n x 3 matrix