Novel Applications of Fractional Derivatives in Image Preprocessing and Segmentation

Abstract

Image processing is the sequence of steps used in handling digital images for specific newlineapplications. Depending on the task at hand, this sequence may involve stages newlinelike image capture, pre-processing, segmentation, and higher analysis. No clear newlinedistinction is drawn in literature between computer vision and image processing. newlineImage processing is a ubiquitous technology in today s world. Many of the realworld intelligent utilities rely significantly on image processing in the pipeline. Image newlineanalysis applications depend heavily on good pre-processing and segmentation in newlineinitial stages of the image processing chain. This thesis contributes novel techniques newlineto these fundamental stages of digital image processing. newline