Applications for real time image warping

Image processing applications can be sub-divided into two major categories. Image restoration and enhancement is concerned with the reconstruction of image data from a signal which has been degraded by noise or artifacts. As subset of this category, image exploitation and analysis seeks to enhance the features of an image that convey some critical information to the observer. In both cases, the result is generally intended for human consumption. Image warping is an image processing function that is useful for many applications crossing the boundaries between image enhancement and computer vision. Image warping is a spatial transformation, meaning that the two dimensional coordinates of an image are transformed or mapped by a warping operation to a new set of image coordinates. A simple example is image translation.