Fuzzy techniques in image processing (Q1573752)

This book contains both theoretical and practical contributions covering a wide range of applications of fuzzy techniques in image processing. Articles can be classified into three principal parts which are fuzzy mathematical morphology, fuzzy image filtering and other applications of fuzzy techniques in image processing. First part, more theoretical then the two other ones explains how classical binary and gray level morphology operators can be extended to fuzzy mathematical morphology. Properties of different fuzzy mathematical morphology approaches are presented (particularly idempotence) and connections between each approach are explained. These theoretical contributions are linked with applicative aspects through examples and through a chapter devoted to an original fuzzy approach used to express spatial relationships between subsets into a luminance image. In the second part, several fuzzy image filtering methods are presented. Some of these techniques use natural human knowledge, which are expressed easily using fuzzy rules. Numerous examples and computer simulations illustrate this part. In the third part of the book, various applications using fuzzy methods are presented. They cover a wide field like engineering, medical imaging, video de-interlacing, handwritten characters recognition, or robotic vision. These applications show different ways to use fuzzy methods and to modelize rules based systems. The variety of theoretical and applicative contributions should satisfy both engineers and scientists. Through two applications, it seems that fuzzy methods are good tools for colour image processing. Several applications presented are using a human empiric knowledge in order to express fuzzy rules and solve the problem. It is a reason of the success of fuzzy methods in image processing.