This book covers the classical methods in image processing and introduces many recent applications. The described applications span a broad range of fields, including medical and dental imaging, multimedia search and retrieval, and tracking and security. The book opens with a description of the physical process of image formation and color perception. Several color spaces are defined and severa...

Interaction increases flexibility of segmentation but it leads to undesirable behaviour of an algorithm if knowledge being requested is inappropriate. In region growing, this is the case for defining the homogeneity criterion as its specification depends also on image formation properties that are not known to the user. We developed a region growing algorithm that learns its homogeneity criteri...