{"id":18,"date":"2006-01-06T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/?p=18"},"modified":"2006-01-06T20:03:10","modified_gmt":"2006-01-07T01:03:10","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/2006\/01\/06\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nWelcome to my new image processing blog.  In the coming weeks and months\r\nand years (I hope) I'll be writing here about image processing concepts and\r\nalgorithms, all within the context of MATLAB.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nI certainly don't know yet how this will evolve, but I can offer topic\r\nareas I have in mind to whet your appetite: \r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Answers to frequently-asked questions\r\n   <br \/><em>The FFT leaps to mind.<\/em>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>MATLAB tips\r\n  <br \/><em>Do you know how binary images and logical indexing are related?<\/em>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>Tutorial series on fundamental concepts<br \/>\r\n    <em>Spatial transforms; filter separability<\/em>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>Algorithm implementation techniques<br \/>\r\n   <em>Who knew a queue could be so useful?<\/em>\r\n<\/li><li>Image processing applications<\/li>\r\n<li>Recommended reading<\/li>\r\n<li>Fun stuff<br \/>\r\n<em>Space-filling curves; Conway's Game of Life<\/em>\r\n<\/li><\/ul>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nOn a different level, I hope this blog adds to the ever-growing community\r\nof MATLAB Central.  Communities are unified bodies of individuals.  They\r\nare unified sometimes geographically (for example, me and my fellow\r\ncitizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts).  On MATLAB Central we are\r\nunified instead by our common interests, such as MATLAB and (for this blog,\r\nanyway) image processing.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nCommunities require interaction, or else they stagnate.  So, please, let me\r\nhear from you.  Leave your comments here, or send me e-mail.  Tell me what\r\nyou think about what you read here, or what topics you want me to cover.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nWelcome to my new image processing blog.  In the coming weeks and months\r\nand years (I hope) I'll be writing here about image processing concepts and\r\nalgorithms, all within the context of... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/2006\/01\/06\/welcome\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}