{"title":"Descriptive Image Analysis","authors":"I. B. Gurevich, V. V. Yashina","doi":"10.1134/s1054661823040181","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Abstract</h3><p>An overview of the main methods, models, and results of Descriptive Image Analysis is given. Descriptive Image Analysis is a logically organized set of descriptive methods and models designed for image analysis and evaluation. The state of the art and trends in the development of Descriptive Image Analysis are determined by the methods, models, and results of the Descriptive Approach to image analysis and understanding. As the methods and apparatus of the Descriptive Approach to the analysis and understanding of images were developed and refined, its interpretation was proposed, defined as Descriptive Image Analysis. The main goal of Descriptive Image Analysis is to structure and standardize the various methods, processes, and concepts used in image analysis and recognition. Descriptive Image Analysis solves the fundamental problems of formalizing and systematizing methods and forms of information representation in image analysis, recognition, and understanding problems, in particular, associated with automating the extraction of information from images to make intelligent decisions (diagnosis, prediction, detection, assessment, and identification patterns of objects, events and processes). Descriptive Image Analysis makes it possible to solve both problems related to constructing formal descriptions of images as recognition objects and problems of synthesizing procedures for recognizing and understanding images. It is suggested that the processes of analysis and evaluation of information represented in the form of images (problem solution trajectories) can generally be considered a sequence/combination of transformations and calculations of a set of intermediate and final (determining the solution) estimates. These transformations are defined by equivalence classes of images and their representations. The latter are defined descriptively, i.e., using a basic set of prototypes and corresponding generating transformations that are functionally complete with respect to the equivalence class of admissible transformations. As part of Descriptive Image Analysis, the following main results were obtained: (1) new mathematical objects were introduced and studied: image formalization space, descriptive image algebras, descriptive algorithmic schemes; (2) descriptive image analysis models have been defined and studied: image models, image transformation models, models for generating descriptive algorithmic schemes; (3) linguistic and knowledge-oriented tools have been developed to support the automation of image analysis; (4) a number of automated software systems have been developed and axioms for Descriptive Image Analysis proposed. A general description of the provisions of Descriptive Image Analysis is presented, and the main results of research in the first two directions are discussed: new mathematical objects and image analysis models. A comprehensive bibliography on Descriptive Image Analysis is provided.</p>","PeriodicalId":35400,"journal":{"name":"PATTERN RECOGNITION AND IMAGE ANALYSIS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"PATTERN RECOGNITION AND IMAGE ANALYSIS","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s1054661823040181","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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An overview of the main methods, models, and results of Descriptive Image Analysis is given. Descriptive Image Analysis is a logically organized set of descriptive methods and models designed for image analysis and evaluation. The state of the art and trends in the development of Descriptive Image Analysis are determined by the methods, models, and results of the Descriptive Approach to image analysis and understanding. As the methods and apparatus of the Descriptive Approach to the analysis and understanding of images were developed and refined, its interpretation was proposed, defined as Descriptive Image Analysis. The main goal of Descriptive Image Analysis is to structure and standardize the various methods, processes, and concepts used in image analysis and recognition. Descriptive Image Analysis solves the fundamental problems of formalizing and systematizing methods and forms of information representation in image analysis, recognition, and understanding problems, in particular, associated with automating the extraction of information from images to make intelligent decisions (diagnosis, prediction, detection, assessment, and identification patterns of objects, events and processes). Descriptive Image Analysis makes it possible to solve both problems related to constructing formal descriptions of images as recognition objects and problems of synthesizing procedures for recognizing and understanding images. It is suggested that the processes of analysis and evaluation of information represented in the form of images (problem solution trajectories) can generally be considered a sequence/combination of transformations and calculations of a set of intermediate and final (determining the solution) estimates. These transformations are defined by equivalence classes of images and their representations. The latter are defined descriptively, i.e., using a basic set of prototypes and corresponding generating transformations that are functionally complete with respect to the equivalence class of admissible transformations. As part of Descriptive Image Analysis, the following main results were obtained: (1) new mathematical objects were introduced and studied: image formalization space, descriptive image algebras, descriptive algorithmic schemes; (2) descriptive image analysis models have been defined and studied: image models, image transformation models, models for generating descriptive algorithmic schemes; (3) linguistic and knowledge-oriented tools have been developed to support the automation of image analysis; (4) a number of automated software systems have been developed and axioms for Descriptive Image Analysis proposed. A general description of the provisions of Descriptive Image Analysis is presented, and the main results of research in the first two directions are discussed: new mathematical objects and image analysis models. A comprehensive bibliography on Descriptive Image Analysis is provided.
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The purpose of the journal is to publish high-quality peer-reviewed scientific and technical materials that present the results of fundamental and applied scientific research in the field of image processing, recognition, analysis and understanding, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, and related fields of theoretical and applied computer science and applied mathematics. The policy of the journal provides for the rapid publication of original scientific articles, analytical reviews, articles of the world''s leading scientists and specialists on the subject of the journal solicited by the editorial board, special thematic issues, proceedings of the world''s leading scientific conferences and seminars, as well as short reports containing new results of fundamental and applied research in the field of mathematical theory and methodology of image analysis, mathematical theory and methodology of image recognition, and mathematical foundations and methodology of artificial intelligence. The journal also publishes articles on the use of the apparatus and methods of the mathematical theory of image analysis and the mathematical theory of image recognition for the development of new information technologies and their supporting software and algorithmic complexes and systems for solving complex and particularly important applied problems. The main scientific areas are the mathematical theory of image analysis and the mathematical theory of pattern recognition. The journal also embraces the problems of analyzing and evaluating poorly formalized, poorly structured, incomplete, contradictory and noisy information, including artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, medical informatics, data mining, big data analysis, machine vision, data representation and modeling, data and knowledge extraction from images, machine learning, forecasting, machine graphics, databases, knowledge bases, medical and technical diagnostics, neural networks, specialized software, specialized computational architectures for information analysis and evaluation, linguistic, psychological, psychophysical, and physiological aspects of image analysis and pattern recognition, applied problems, and related problems. Articles can be submitted either in English or Russian. The English language is preferable. Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis is a hybrid journal that publishes mostly subscription articles that are free of charge for the authors, but also accepts Open Access articles with article processing charges. The journal is one of the top 10 global periodicals on image analysis and pattern recognition and is the only publication on this topic in the Russian Federation, Central and Eastern Europe.