image processing

noun

1. the manipulation or modification of a digitized image, esp in order to enhance its quality

Example Sentences

The machines are retrofitted to accept credit cards and Apple Pay, but otherwise the technology is original on the old machines — which means no retakes and a 3-to-5-minute wait for image processing.

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After demonstrating that the glass-like substance found in the guardian’s brain was organic in origin and in fact was vitrified brain tissue, Dr. Pierpaolo Petrone and others used scanning electron microscopy and image processing tools to visualize the man’s actual brain cells, incredibly well-preserved, even as the rest of him was charred to mostly ash.

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The new model gives a new twist to an image processing technique called deconvolution.

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In general, there are two basic variants for image processing.

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"The measurement principle is based on the fact that even the tiniest of particles, made up of just a few molecules, scatter incident light. If these scattered light waves overlap, we get interference -- just like water waves in a pool. That is to say, we get larger and smaller waves depending on how the waves overlap. We record these light patterns with a high-resolution camera and, with subsequent image processing, we obtain pictures that reveal, for example, nano-scale COF particles," explains Gruber.

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