... sensed and translated to multidimensional signals. These travel along the visual
pathways forward and backward, in parallel and serially, thanks to a fascinating chain
of chemical and electrical ... nucleus
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Nasal view
Temporal view
Temporal view
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Fig. 1.1. The anatomic pathways of the visual signals
The spatial 2D image formed on the retina...
... Gaussian. As is shown in Fig. 2 4-7 , a two-dimensional
Gaussian image has projections that are also Gaussians. The image and
projection Gaussians have the same standard deviation.
To convolve an ... matching
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Gonzalez, Rafael C.
Digital Image Processing / Richard E. Woods
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references
ISBN ... 15
1.1 What Is Digital Image Processing? 15
1.2 The Origins of Digital Image Processing 17
1.3 Examples of Fields that Use Digital Image Processing 2...
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and (b), this image was obtained using the natural radiation of the object being
imaged. Finally, Fig. 1.6(d) shows an image of gamma radiation from a valve in
a nuclear reactor. An area ... of X-rays and blood
samples, and machine processing of aerial and satellite imagery for weather
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