Approaches for M-Health Environment

Abstract

It is a well-known fact that when a camera or other imaging system captures an image, often, the vision system for which it is captured cannot implement it directly. There may be several reasons behind this fact such as there can exist random intensity variation in the image. There can also be illumination variation in the image or poor contrast. These drawbacks must be tackled at the primitive stages for optimum vision processing. This chapter will discuss different filtering approaches for this purpose. The chapter begins with the Gaussian filter, followed by a brief review of different often used approaches. Moreover, this chapter will also render different filtering approaches including their hardware architectures.