Soft Computing for Image Processing: 42 (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 3790824682 ISBN 13: 9783790824681

Verlag: Physica, 2010

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Reseña del editor

Any task that involves decision-making can benefit from soft computing techniques which allow premature decisions to be deferred. The processing and analysis of images is no exception to this rule. In the classical image analysis paradigm, the first step is nearly always some sort of segmentation process in which the image is divided into (hopefully, meaningful) parts. It was pointed out nearly 30 years ago by Prewitt (1] that the decisions involved in image segmentation could be postponed by regarding the image parts as fuzzy, rather than crisp, subsets of the image. It was also realized very early that many basic properties of and operations on image subsets could be extended to fuzzy subsets; for example, the classic paper on fuzzy sets by Zadeh [2] discussed the "set algebra" of fuzzy sets (using sup for union and inf for intersection), and extended the defmition of convexity to fuzzy sets. These and similar ideas allowed many of the methods of image analysis to be generalized to fuzzy image parts. For are cent review on geometric description of fuzzy sets see, e. g. , [3]. Fuzzy methods are also valuable in image processing and coding, where learning processes can be important in choosing the parameters of filters, quantizers, etc.

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The volume provides a collection of 21 articles containing new material and describing, in a unified way with extensive real life applications, the merits and significance of performing different image processing/analysis tasks in soft computing paradigm. The articles, written by leading experts all over the world, demonstrate the various ways the fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms and fractals can be used independently and in integrated manner to provide efficient and flexible information processing capabilities in a stronger computational paradigm for handling the tasks like filtering, edge detection, segmentation, compression , classification, motion estimation, character regognition and target identification. Application domain includes, among others, data mining, computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning, information technology, remote sensing, forensic investigation, video abstraction and knowledge based systems.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Physica
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 3790824682
• ISBN 13: 9783790824681
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 612
• Herausgeber: Pal Sankar K., Ghosh Ashish, Kundu Malay K.