Image Processing and Analysis with Graphs

Preface

The last two decades have witnessed the explosive growth of image production from digital photographs to the medical scans, satellite images, and video films. Consequently, the number of applications based on digital images has drastically increased, including multimedia integration, computer animation, video games, communication and digital arts, medicine, biometry, etc. Although being very different from one another, all these application areas rely on similar image processing and analysis techniques. The field of image or video processing analysis is very broad, encompassing a wide variety of research issues from low-level processing (such as image enhancement, restoration, and segmentation) to high-level analysis (semantic object ...