Digital image processing plays an important role in many aspects of daily life and fields of science and technology. It has applications in television, photography, robotics, medicine, and industrial inspection. Some key applications include computerized photography, medical imaging, character recognition, remote sensing, and industrial product inspection. Digital image processing involves tasks like image acquisition, enhancement, understanding, recognition, and pre-processing for computer vision. The fundamental steps include image digitization, storage, transmission, compression, enhancement, restoration, extraction of information for analysis, and description or interpretation of image content.