With the ongoing explosion in popularity of digital cameras, online image delivery, powerful graphics-editing programs, and digital video, the technology involved has received much attention. A serious treatment of the theory and practice of encoding and manipulating graphical data, this book explains how computer programs work with pixels, color, and other aspects of digital imaging. And the text puts an emphasis on sampling, filtering, compression, and additional manipulation algorithms. But this book is about digital image, not Java. (For a clean design, Java is perfect for this job.) Parts typical in this book provides the theory behind certain types of image processing (often with some pure mathematics that are easy to follow with a handful of studies) and then show how to apply the idea of Java.