This chapter analyzes the process of processing and manipulating images through concurrent programming, especially multiprocessing. Since images are processed independently of one another, concurrent programming can provide image processing with a significant speedup. This chapter discusses the basics behind image processing techniques, illustrates the improvements that concurrent programming provides, and finally, goes over some of the best practices used in image processing applications.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- The idea behind image processing and a number of basic techniques in image processing
- How to apply concurrency to image processing, and how to analyze the improvements it provides
- Best practices in concurrent image processing
