General Theory. - The Elements of Digital Picture Processing. - Some Neighborhood Operators. - Region Relaxation in a Parallel Hierarchical Architecture. - Generalized Cellular Automata. - Theoretical Considerations on a Family of Distance Transformations and Their Applications. - Languages. - Image Data Modeling and Language for Parallel Processing. - A Study on Parallel Parsing of Tree Languages and Its Application to Syntactic Pattern Recognition. - PIXAL: A High Level Language for Image Processing. - Languages for Parallel Processing of Images. - Techniques. - Real Time Region Analysis for Image Data. - Hybrid Image Processing Using a Simple Optical Technique. - Focus of Attention in the Analysis of Complex Pictures Such as Aerial Photographs. - The Virtual Plane Concept in Image Processing. - Hardware and Systems. - A Multi-Microprocessor Architecture for Associative Processing of Image Data. - An Interactive Image Processing and Analysis System. - Interpolation to Reduce Difficulty in D/A Conversion. - A Computing System Organization for Image Data Retrieval. - A Compound Computer System for Image Data Processing. - Interactive Techniques for Producing and Encoding Color Graphics. - Image Processing Unit Hardware Implementation. - Man-Machine Interactive Processing for Extracting Meteorological Information from GMS Images. - An Array Processor for Image Processing. - Real-Time Shading Corrector for a Television Camera Using a Microprocessor. - Parallel Architectures for Image Processing. - Color Display for Image Processing with Multiple Functions. - Image Processing Oriented Multiprocessor System with a Multipurpose Video Processor. - Author Index. Language: English