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Image Representation

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File format; Image compression; Image content; Image metadata; Image standards; Multimedia

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In computer science, the representation of an image can take many forms. Most of the time, it refers to the way that the conveyed information, such as color, is coded digitally and how the image is stored, i.e., how is structured an image file. Several open or patented standards were proposed to create, manipulate store and exchange digital images. They describe the format of image files, the algorithms of image encoding such as compression as well as the format of additional information often called metadata. Differently, the visual content of the image can also take part in its representation. This more recent concept has provided new approaches of representation and new standards, gathered together into the discipline named content-based image indexing.

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The first use of digital images began in the early 1920s with the technological development of...

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  1. CNAM Paris, Paris, France

    Valerie Gouet-Brunet

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  1. Valerie Gouet-Brunet
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Correspondence to Valerie Gouet-Brunet .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, New Jersey Inst. of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA

    Vincent Oria

  2. Digital Content and Media Sciences ReseaMultimedia Information Research Division, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

    Shin'ichi Satoh

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Gouet-Brunet, V. (2018). Image Representation. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1438

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