Java Project

In this project, you wil be doing some simple image processing operations on what is called chain coding. Chain coding is an efficient process to represent contours and/or edge image information of an image via traversing contours/edges and encoding their direction at each step. This procedure is widely used in image processing applications especially where binary shape coding is required. One example is the Freeman chain code developed in 1961, which is an eight connectivity directional encoding scheme in which a link represents the direction between two points (pixels). This coding scheme consists of eight possible directions numbered from 0-to-7 as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1. Eight directions of Freeman chain code Starting #8 Figure 2. Example of an image being encoded using Freeman chain code