In [[electrical engineering]] and [[computer science]], '''analogAnalog image processing''' is anythe use of an [[imageOptical processingcomputing|optical computer]] to process physical, [[Image|optical images]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last1last=Momeni |first1first=Ali |last2=Rouhi |first2=Kasra |last3=Fleury |first3=Romain |date=2022-01-01 |title=Switchable and simultaneous spatiotemporal analog computing with computational graphene-based multilayers |journalurl=Carbonhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0008622321009738 |languagejournal=enCarbon |volume=186 |pages=599–611 |doi=10.1016/j.carbon.2021.10.001 |s2cid=241564891 |issn=0008-6223|doi-access=free }}</ref> taskformed conductedby onlight [[two-dimensional]]waves [[analogcoming signal]]sfrom byan analog meansobject, (as opposed to the [[digital image processing]]<ref>{{Cite bookjournal |last=Burger |first=Wilhelm |last2=Burge |first2=Mark J. |date=2022 |title=Digital Image Processing |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-05744-1 |title=Digital Image Processing |seriesjournal=Texts in Computer Science |year=2022 |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-031-05744-1 |isbnissn=9781868-3-031-057430941}}</ref> and its use of [[Computer|digital computers]] to process pixelated, [[Digital image|digital images]]. Correspondingly, a range of digital image processing techniques possess direct physical analogs. For example, [[Fast Fourier transform|fast Fourier transform algorithms]] are commonly implemented in digital [[phase correlation]] and other digital image processing techniques. These digital [[Fourier transform|Fourier transforms]] can be considered to be the digitized approximation of methods utilizing [[Fourier optics#Fourier transforming property of lenses|Fourier transforming properties of an ideal lens]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lugt |first=A.V. |date=1964-404 |s2cidtitle=250958169Signal detection by complex spatial filtering |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tit.1964.1053650 |journal=IEEE Transactions on Information Theory |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=139–145 |doi=10.1109/tit.1964.1053650 |issn=0018-9448}}</ref>).
Basically any data can be represented in two types named as
1.Analog
2.Digital
if the pictorial representation of the data represented in analog wave formats that can be named as analog [[image]].
E.g.:
television broadcasting in older days.. through the dish antenna systems..
Where as the digital representation or storing the data in digital form is termed as a digital image processing
