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Digital image; Graphics; Multimedia; Photograph; Picture; Synthetic image

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Image comes from Imago in Latin and designates funeral masks. Philosophically, an image represents the static and eternal double of a volatile or ephemeral reality. More commonly, it is a two-dimensional artifact that either records the visual appearance of physical objects, like photographs, or provides a visual representation of concepts or artificial data, like graphics or synthetic images. Digital images were born in the early 1920s, as a representation of a two-dimensional image using ones and zeros (binary) obtained by digital cameras, scanners or dedicated materials and softwares. They exist in different forms, as illustrated in Fig. 1. Nowadays, digital images are everywhere. They are involved in a large number of leading applications and cover various domains from medicine to video games, including architecture or robotics.

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  1. CNAM Paris, Paris, France

    Valerie Gouet-Brunet

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  1. Valerie Gouet-Brunet
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  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. 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_1009

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