This document discusses digital image processing. It defines digital image processing as using computer algorithms to process digital images. Digital images represent scenes as a finite set of digital values called pixels. Digital image processing involves improving images for viewing, storage, and machine analysis. The main types of digital image processing are image-to-image, image-to-information, and information-to-image transformations. Applications include medicine, security, maps, law enforcement, and special effects. Digital image processing allows for more complex algorithms than analog image processing.