{"id":411,"date":"2009-12-29T23:32:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T06:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giassa.net\/?page_id=411"},"modified":"2025-08-24T08:03:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:03:52","slug":"3-histograms-and-statistics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.giassa.net\/?page_id=411","title":{"rendered":"3 \u2013 Histograms, Statistics, &#038; Single Pixel Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p title=\"I \u2013 Histograms &amp; Statistics\">The use of statistics in image processing is not a new concept; it is an important fundamental concept one must understand in order to be able to understand higher level concepts in this field. Fortunately, statistical methods and their applications in image processing are very easy to understand and apply, as I will demonstrate in the following subsections.<\/p>\n<p title=\"I \u2013 Histograms &amp; Statistics\"><div id=\"shailan-subpages-411-1\"><ul class=\"subpages\"><li class=\"page_item page-item-470\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.giassa.net\/?page_id=470\" title=\"I &#8211; Histograms &#038; Statistics\" rel=\"\">I - Histograms & Statistics<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-472\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.giassa.net\/?page_id=472\" title=\"II &#8211; Contrast Adjustment &#038; Image Normalization\" rel=\"\">II - Contrast Adjustment & Image Normalization<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-475\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.giassa.net\/?page_id=475\" title=\"III &#8211; Gamma Correction\" rel=\"\">III - Gamma Correction<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-477\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.giassa.net\/?page_id=477\" title=\"IV &#8211; Logarithmic Transformation\" rel=\"\">IV - Logarithmic Transformation<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-479\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.giassa.net\/?page_id=479\" title=\"V &#8211; Error Vectors\" rel=\"\">V - Error Vectors<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of statistics in image processing is not a new concept; it is an important fundamental concept one must understand in order to be able to understand higher level concepts in this field. 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