An image is a visual representation of an object, a scene, a person, or even a concept. They can be photographs, paintings, drawings, schemes, scans and more! One of the more surprising things is that an image is also a function. More precisely, an image is an n-dimensional function. We will first consider it to be two-dimensional \\(n=2\\). We will call it \\(F(X,Y)\\), where \\(X\\) and \\(Y\\) are spatial coordinates. Do not get distracted by the fancy name. Spatial coordinates are just the system that we use to describe the positions of objects in a physical space with the most common one being the 2D Cartesian system. The amplitude of F at a pair of coordinates \\(x_i, y_i\\) is the intensity or gray level of the image at that point. The intensity is what gives you the perception of light and dark. Typically, when we have the coordinate pair \\(x_1\\) and \\(y_1\\), we refer to them as pixels (picture elements).
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