DigitizingtheamplitudevaluesofthesamplevaluesL=f[i;j]iscalledquantization,thequantizationleveldeterminesthenumberofgreylevels,thatisthegrayresolutioninthedigitizedimage.Unlikesampling(wherewesawthatundersuitableconditionsexactreconstructionispossible),quantizationisgenerallyirreversibleandresultsinlossofinformation.Itthereforeintroducesdistortionintothequantizedsignalthatcannotbeeliminated.