Binary Image Processing and Analysis
Jean‐Charles Pinoli · 2014
The purpose of this chapter is to provide a brief overview of the main fields and subfields of binary image processing and analysis. The main objective is to introduce, in a synthetic way, the key terms and notions that are necessary to understand the role and importance of the mathematical frameworks. Strictly speaking, binary image processing focuses on the transformation of a binary image or several binary images into one or more other binary images. In a similar sense, binary image analysis is designed to retrieve qualitative or quantitative information contents from one or more binary images. The ideas and concepts underlying object comparison are close to those related to image comparison. The goal of object comparison is to find the differences between two or more objects, or relative to a reference object. Object recognition is a task that is not always easily automatically performed with robustness and stability.