Image processing for materials characterization: Issues, challenges and opportunities

This introductory paper aims at summarizing some problems and state-of-the-art techniques encountered in image processing for material analysis and design. Developing generic methods for this purpose is a complex task given the variability of the different image acquisition modalities (optical, scanning or transmission electron microscopy; surface analysis instrumentation, electron tomography, micro-tomography ...), and material composition (porous, fibrous, granular, hard materials, membranes, surfaces and interfaces ...). This paper presents an overview of techniques that have been and are currently developed to address this diversity of problems, such as segmentation, texture analysis, multiscale and directional features extraction, stochastic models and rendering, among others. Finally, it provides references to enter the issues, challenges and opportunities in materials characterization.

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