Bitplane Slicing

Digital Image Processing

April 2012

Bitplane Slicing

Bitplane Example

For example, in the 8-bit value 10110101 (181 in decimal) the bit planes work as follows:

Original Image Pixels

1st Bitplane

2nd Bitplane

3rd Bitplane

4th Bitplane

5th Bitplane

6th Bitplane

7th Bitplane

8th Bitplane

Original Image

1st Bitplane

2nd Bitplane

3rd Bitplane

4th Bitplane

5th Bitplane

6th Bitplane

7th Bitplane

3rd Bitplane