An image may be defined as a rectangular array of pixels. The pixel of a grayscale image is a nonnegative integer interpreted as the intensity (brightness, luminosity) of the image (Deever and Hemami, 2003). It is a picture that has been created or copied and stored in electronic form. An image can be described in terms of vector graphics or raster graphics . An image stored in raster form is sometimes called a bitmap (Margaret, What is image? - Definition from WhatIs.com:, 2005)
According to Magaret Rouse, Raster graphics are digital images created or captured (for example, by scanning in a photo) as a set of samples of a given space. A raster is a grid of x and y coordinates on a display space (And for three-dimensional images, a z coordinate.) A raster image file identifies which of these coordinates to illuminate in monochrome or color values. The raster file is sometimes referred to as a bitmap because it contains information that is directly mapped to the display grid. Examples of raster image file types are: BMP, TIFF, GIF, and JPEG files (Margaret, What is raster graphics? - Definition from WhatIs.com, 2005)
Vector graphics is the creation of digital images through a sequence of commands or mathematical statements that place lines and shapes in a given two-dimensional or three-dimensional space. In physics, a vector is a representation of both a quantity and a direction at the same time. In vector graphics, the file that results from a graphic artist 's work is created and saved as a sequence of vector statements. For example, instead of containing a bit in the file for each bit of a line drawing, a vector graphic file describes a series of points to be connected. One result is a much smaller file (Magaret, 2006)
Digital images are characterized by multiple parameters. The first feature of a digital image is its color mode. A digital image can have one of three modes: binary, grayscale or color. A
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