Digital imaging or digital image acquisition is the creation of digital images, typically from a physical object. The term is often assumed to imply or include the processing, compression, storage, printing, and display of such images.

A digital image may be created directly from a physical scene by a camera or similar devices. Alternatively, it may be obtained from another image in an analog medium, such as photographs, photographic film, or printed paper, by a scanner or similar device. Many technical images—such as those acquired with tomographic equipment, side-looking radar, or radio telescopes—are actually obtained by complex processing of non-image data. Finally, a digital image can also be computed from a geometric model or mathematical formula (however, in this case the name image synthesis is more appropriate).

Digital image authentication is an emerging issueFact: date=July 2007 for the providers and producers of high resolution digital images such as health care organizations, law enforcement agencies and insurance companies. There are methods emerging to analyze a digital image and determine if it has been altered or not.

See also

• Digital image processing
• Dynamic imaging
• Image editing
• Image retrieval
• Graphics file format
• Graphic image development
• Society for Imaging Science and Technology, (IS&T)
• Film recorder

External links

• Cornell University. Digital imaging tutorial

• Dartmouth, Hany Farid. Digital Image Forensics

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