An Overview of Image Engineering in Recent Years

In the past more than 20 years, a survey on the literature related to image engineering, which includes image processing, image analysis, image understanding as well as their technical applications, is conducted yearly. The statistics data obtained from this series in the last 13 years with the same categories (5 main classes and 23 sub-classes) are collected and analyzed. It provides a general overview and clear focus and tendency of the progression of image engineering in these years.