Welcome to my new image processing blog. In the coming weeks and months and years (I hope) I'll be writing here about image processing concepts and algorithms, all within the context of MATLAB.

I certainly don't know yet how this will evolve, but I can offer topic areas I have in mind to whet your appetite:

• Answers to frequently-asked questions
  The FFT leaps to mind.
• MATLAB tips
  Do you know how binary images and logical indexing are related?
• Tutorial series on fundamental concepts
  Spatial transforms; filter separability
• Algorithm implementation techniques
  Who knew a queue could be so useful?
• Image processing applications
• Recommended reading
• Fun stuff
  Space-filling curves; Conway's Game of Life

On a different level, I hope this blog adds to the ever-growing community of MATLAB Central. Communities are unified bodies of individuals. They are unified sometimes geographically (for example, me and my fellow citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts). On MATLAB Central we are unified instead by our common interests, such as MATLAB and (for this blog, anyway) image processing.

Communities require interaction, or else they stagnate. So, please, let me hear from you. Leave your comments here, or send me e-mail. Tell me what you think about what you read here, or what topics you want me to cover.