Image processing is used in many applications including medicine, the internet, astronomy, defense, machine vision, and biometrics. It involves fundamental steps like enhancement, restoration, compression, use of wavelets, segmentation, and recognition. Enhancement improves image quality for a specific application. Restoration recovers degraded images. Compression reduces storage and bandwidth needs. Wavelets represent images at different resolutions. Segmentation partitions images into constituent parts. Recognition labels objects based on descriptors. Image processing has advantages like aiding remote sensing, space exploration, geology surveys, and industries.