The department of computer science, in coordination with Ibn Sina unit for e-learning and the continuing education unit at the college of science held a virtual workshop entitled “Editing digital images using MATLAB” with the participation of a number of students, professors and specialists in digital photography. The workshop aimed to process digital images by using multiple programming tools, including other filtering features.
The workshop was presented by Assist. Prof. Dr. Nasser Hussein Salman, who gave an overview about MATLAB as a proprietary multi-paradigm programming developed by MathWorks and it allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, as well as interfacing with programs written in other languages that is of utmost necessity for computer department’s students, engineers and scientists in working in universities, research institutes or industries around the world. Dr. Nasser Hussein stated that the name of this tool is an abbreviation of “Matrix Laboratory”, which allows the possibility of programming using menu method and GUI graphic interface, stressing that the digital image consists of a specific number of elements in a binary matrix form, represented in pixels and each of them has a certain value, indicating that the name of the digital image when the coordinates are represented by rows and columns of a binary matrix, concluding that at each point there is a value representing the intensity of lighting or blur of a photo depending on the number of bits recorded in the image.
