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<p><b>Foreword xi</b><br /> Henri Maître</p> <p><b>Chapter 1. Color Representation and Processing in Polar Color Spaces 1</b><br /> Jesús Angulo, Sébastien Lefèvre and Olivier Lezoray</p> <p>1.1. Introduction 1</p> <p>1.2. The HSI triplet 3</p> <p>1.3. Processing of hue: a variable on the unit circle 8</p> <p>1.4. Color morphological filtering in the HSI space 15</p> <p>1.5. Morphological color segmentation in the HSI space 24</p> <p>1.6. Conclusion 35</p> <p>1.7. Bibliography 36</p> <p><b>Chapter 2. Adaptive Median Color Filtering 41</b><br /> Frédérique Robert-Inacio and Eric Dinet</p> <p>2.1. Introduction 41</p> <p>2.2. Noise 42</p> <p>2.3. Nonlinear filtering 47</p> <p>2.4. Median filter: methods derived from vector methods 51</p> <p>2.5. Adaptive filters 60</p> <p>2.6. Performance comparison 66</p> <p>2.7. Conclusion 71</p> <p>2.8. Bibliography 72</p> <p><b>Chapter 3. Anisotropic Diffusion PDEs for Regularization of Multichannel Images: Formalisms and Applications 75</b><br /> David Tschumperlé</p> <p>3.1. Introduction 75</p> <p>3.2. Preliminary concepts 80</p> <p>3.3. Local geometry in multi-channel images 81</p> <p>3.4. PDEs for multi-channel image smoothing: overview 87</p> <p>3.5. Regularization and curvature preservation 102</p> <p>3.6. Numerical implementation 109</p> <p>3.7. Some applications 112</p> <p>3.8. Conclusion 116</p> <p>3.9. Bibliography 116</p> <p><b>Chapter 4. Linear Prediction in Spaces with Separate Achromatic and Chromatic Information 123</b><br /> Olivier Alata, Imtnan Qazi, Jean-Christophe Burie and Christine Fernandez-Maloigne</p> <p>4.1. Introduction 123</p> <p>4.2. Complex vector 2D linear prediction 124</p> <p>4.3. Spectral analysis in the IHLS and L*a*b* color spaces 129</p> <p>4.4. Application to segmentation of textured color images 136</p> <p>4.5. Conclusion 145</p> <p>4.6. Bibliography 146</p> <p><b>Chapter 5. Region Segmentation 149</b><br /> Alain Clément, Laurent Busin, Olivier Lezoray and Ludovic Macaire</p> <p>5.1. Introduction 149</p> <p>5.2. Compact histograms 150</p> <p>5.3. Spatio-colorimetric classification 158</p> <p>5.4. Segmentation by graph analysis 167</p> <p>5.5. Evaluation of segmentation methods against a “ground truth” 181</p> <p>5.6. Conclusion 186</p> <p>5.7. Bibliography 187</p> <p><b>Chapter 6. Color Texture Attributes 193</b><br /> Nicolas Vandenbroucke, Olivier Alata, Christèle Lecomte, Alice Porebski and Imtnan Qazi</p> <p>6.1. Introduction 193</p> <p>6.2. Statistical features 201</p> <p>6.3. Spatio-frequential features 213</p> <p>6.4. Stochastic modeling 217</p> <p>6.5. Color texture classification 223</p> <p>6.6. Conclusion 232</p> <p>6.7. Bibliography 233</p> <p><b>Chapter 7. Photometric Color Invariants for Object Recognition 241</b><br /> Damien Muselet</p> <p>7.1. Introduction 241</p> <p>7.2. Basic assumptions 246</p> <p>7.3. Color invariant characteristics 255</p> <p>7.4. Conclusion 280</p> <p>7.5. Bibliography 280</p> <p><b>Chapter 8. Color Key Point Detectors and Local Color Descriptors 285</b><br /> Damien Muselet and Xiaohu Song</p> <p>8.1. Introduction 285</p> <p>8.2. Color key point and region detectors 286</p> <p>8.3. Local color descriptors 299</p> <p>8.4. Conclusion 308</p> <p>8.5. Bibliography 309</p> <p><b>Chapter 9. Motion Estimation in Color Image Sequences 317</b><br /> Bertrand Augereau and Jenny Benois-Pineau</p> <p>9.1. Introduction 317</p> <p>9.2. Extension of classical motion estimation techniques to color image spaces 318</p> <p>9.3. Apparent motion and vector images 324</p> <p>9.4. Conclusion 334</p> <p>9.5. Bibliography 336</p> <p><b>Appendix A. Appendix to Chapter 7: Summary of Hypotheses and Color Characteristic Invariances 339</b></p> <p>A.1.Bibliography 344</p> <p><b>List of Authors 345</b></p> <p><b>Index 349</b></p>

<p><strong>Christine FERNANDEZ-MALOIGNE</strong> is Professor at Poitiers University, Manager of Xlim-SIC Laboratory, Chasseneuil, France. <p><strong>Frédérique ROBERT-INACIO</strong> is Researcher at IM2NP and lecturer at ISEN, Toulon, France. <p><strong>Ludovic MACAIRE</strong> is Full Professor at Lille 1 University,LAGIS Laboratory, Villeneuve d'Asq, France.

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