When most of us think about Linear Algebra, the first idea that comes out from our mind is a system of linear equations that needs to be solved, or its graphical variant, a Cartesian plane with two lines, in order to solve the problem of finding the intersection point; but what probably most of people don't know is that tools like Photoshop or libraries like OpenGL or DirectX make an extensive use of linear algebra for most of their functionalities.
It this series of posts we will discuss some basic concepts of the application of Linear Algebra in Image Processing. In the first post we will focus on its applications and how an image can be represented as a matrix, in the second and third one we will explore matrix operations on an image, and in the last one we will show some practical examples in JavaScript.