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Digital Image Processing

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  Image processing is the process of manipulating digital images. See a list of image processing techniques, including image enhancement, restoration, & others. Digital image processing is the use of a digital computer to process digital images through an algorithm. As a subcategory or field of digital signal processing, digital image processing has many advantages over analog image processing. It allows a much wider range of algorithms to be applied to the input data and can avoid problems such as the build-up of noise and distortion during processing. Since images are defined over two dimensions or more, digital image processing may be modeled in the form of multidimensional systems.  The generation and development of digital image processing are mainly affected by three factors: first, the development of computers; second, the development of mathematics (especially the creation and improvement of discrete mathematics theory); and third, the demand for a wide range ...

Revolutionizing Electronics: Groundbreaking Graphene Semiconductor Marks a New Era in Computing

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Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, and it is considered a two-dimensional material. It is a basic structural element of other carbon allotropes like graphite, carbon nanotubes, and fullerenes. Graphene is a promising material for electronics due to its unique properties, such as high conductivity and mechanical strength. However, integrating graphene into semiconductor devices poses significant challenges, and progress in this area has been a subject of ongoing research. But recently Scientists have successfully created a working and scalable semiconductor using graphene for the first time. The achievement opens the door to a potential revolution in computing, introducing a new type of computer with enhanced speed and efficiency compared to the current silicon chip technology.  The semiconductor chips are increasingly emerging as pivots of the global economy, and are described as the 'new oil' of the technology age. The computing power ...

IBM Releases First-Ever 1000-Qubit Quantum Chip

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 The International Business Machines Corporation, nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York and is present in over 175 countries.  IBM is known for its hardware and software products, including computers, servers, storage systems and networking equipment. It also provides consulting, technology and business services, such as cloud computing, data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). IBM has unveiled the first quantum computer with more than 1,000 qubits — the equivalent of the digital bits in an ordinary computer. But the company says it will now shift gears and focus on making its machines more error-resistant rather than larger. For years, IBM has been following a quantum-computing road map that roughly doubled the number of qubits every year. The chip unveiled on 4 December, called Condor, has 1,121 superconducting qubits arranged in a honeycomb pattern. It follows on from its other record-setting, bird-...