Summary

In this chapter, we first provided a basic introduction to image processing and basic concepts regarding the problems that we try to solve in image processing. We then discussed different tasks and steps with image processing, and the leading image processing libraries in Python, which we are going to use for coding in this book. Next, we talked about how to install different libraries for image processing in Python, and how to import them and call the functions from the modules. We also covered basic concepts about image types, file formats, and data structures to store image data with different Python libraries. Then, we discussed how to perform image I/O and display in Python using different libraries. Finally, we discussed how to perform basic image manipulations with different Python libraries. In the next chapter, we will deep dive into sampling, quantization, convolution, the Fourier transform, and frequency domain filtering on images.