Computer Vision »

TextRecognize, FindImageText — using operating system OCR (macOS only)

RemoveBackground — a new method for people segmentation

Colorize — significant speed improvement up to times faster

Image Processing »

A new generation of neural networks and flexible ways of specifying goals gives substantially more powerful segmentation capabilities used in a variety of functions.

ImageSegmentationComponents — segment an image into components

ImageSegmentationFilter — filters an image for the foreground components

ImageCases  ▪  ImageContents  ▪  RemoveBackground  ▪  Inpaint

Powering of these functions by neural networks to detect where in an image text occurs and actually recognizing the content now allows for a higher success rate.

TextRecognize  ▪  FindImageText

Image Processing »

ImageSynthesize — generate an image from a textual prompt

FindImageShapes — find common shapes (lines, circles, ellipses, ...) in an image

ImageSaliencyFilter — image saliency filtering using salient object detection

RemoveBackground — separate foreground and background based on foreground saliency

BarcodeImage — support for new barcodes (UPCE and Code93)

Documentation updates for better illustrations and more.

RGBColor  ▪  CMYKColor  ▪  Hue  ▪  LCHColor  ▪  LABColor  ▪  LUVColor  ▪  XYZColor  ▪  GrayLevel

Image Computation »

ImageStitch — support for spherical and cylindrical projection spaces

ImageCompose — support for plain or styled text and arbitrary expressions for overlays

BarcodeRecognize — support for MicroQR

Image Computation »

ImageDisplacements (updated) — support for animated images, adding a new method

ImageFeatureTrack  ▪  ImageStitch  ▪  ImageMeasurements

Image Creation »

AnimatedImage (updated) — can now create an animation from a video

Image Geometry »

ImageStitch — stitch together a list of images

ImageKeypoints (updated) — new SURF and neural net keypoints methods

ImageCorrespondingPoints  (updated)    ▪  FindGeometricTransform  (updated)    ▪  ImageAlign  (updated) 

Color Processing »

RemoveAlphaChannel (updated) — now accepts color directives

SetAlphaChannel  (updated)   ▪  AlphaChannel  (updated)   ▪  ColorConvert  (updated)   ▪  ColorSeparate  (updated) 

Image Processing »

Rasterize (updated) — performance improvement

HighlightImage (updated) — support for label matrices from segmentation algorithms

FindGeometricTransform (updated) — significant performance and quality improvement

RGBColor (updated) — can now be used directly for color conversion

GrayLevel  (updated)   ▪  Hue  (updated)   ▪  CMYKColor  (updated)   ▪  XYZColor  (updated)   ▪  LABColor  (updated)   ▪  LCHColor  (updated)   ▪  LUVColor  (updated) 

Image Processing »

AnimatedImage — create and represent animated images from files or lists of images

RandomImage  (updated)   ▪  LinearGradientImage  (updated)   ▪  RadialGradientImage  (updated)   ▪  ImageReflect  (updated) 

Face Analysis

FaceRecognize — recognize faces in an image based on a few samples

FindFaces  (updated)   ▪  FaceAlign  (updated) 

Visualization

ImageWaveformPlot  ▪  ImageVectorscopePlot

Image Processing »

HighlightImage (updated) — support for labeling and legending

ImageLabels  ▪  ImageLegends  ▪  ImageAssemble  (updated)   ▪  ImageTransformation  (updated) 

High-Resolution Rasterization

Rasterize (updated) — updated to account for available screen resolution

$ImageResolution — a global variable to get and set image resolution

Face Analysis

FindFaces (updated) — new methods to detect faces

FacialFeatures (updated) — new single-point facial features

FaceAlign — geometrically align detected faces

Text Analysis

FindImageText — detect text in an image

Computer Vision

ImageCases — find subimages identified as being an instance of an object

ImageContainsQ  ▪  ImageContents  ▪  ImagePosition  ▪  ImageBoundingBoxes

Facial Computation

FindFaces (updated) — improved face detection

FacialFeatures (updated) — improved feature detection, with smaller networks

Image Pyramids

ImagePyramid — construct a multi-resolution image pyramid

InverseImagePyramid — reconstruct the image from an image pyramid

ImagePyramidApply — apply a function to images of an image pyramid

Color Processing

FindMatchingColor — find the shade of a color present in an image

ColorsNear — symbolic representation of a region in color space

ChromaticityPlot3D (updated) — support for specifying color neighborhoods

ColorDetect — find a region with pixel values similar to a given color

ImageRecolor — recolor regions of an image

ColorQuantize (updated) — can now guess the number of colors to use for quantization

CurrentImage (updated) — support for multiple devices and Linux

ImageGraphics (updated) — support for smoothed regions

ImageTrim (updated) — support for extracting multiple regions of interest

Masking (updated) — support for masking using symbolic region objects

ImageCaptureFunction — preprocessing function for images acquired by cameras etc.

Computer Vision »

FacialFeatures — extract facial characteristics such as age, emotion, landmarks, etc.

FindFaces (updated) — support for face filtering using facial features

BarcodeRecognize (updated) — support for returning positions of text bounding boxes

Image, Image3D (updated) — more arithmetic and statistical operations on images

HighlightImage (updated) — automatic choice of highlighting style

ColorQuantize (updated) — new quantization methods and improved performance

RegionImage — convert regions to 2D and 3D raster images

ImageEffect (updated) — new effects

ImageRestyle — restyle one image to follow another

Image Creation

CurrentScreenImage — capture an image of your screen

CurrentNotebookImage — capture an image of a notebook

RegionImage — generate a 2D or 3D image from a region

GeoImage — satellite image of a given region

CurrentImage (updated) — significant increases in speed and robustness

Image, Image3D (updated) — comprehensive support for arithmetic and statistical operations

Computer Vision »

TextRecognize (updated) — level specification, property extraction, regions of interest, etc.

ImageGraphics — convert bitmap images to symbolic vector graphics

Feature Extraction »

ImageKeypoints, FindGeometricTransform, ... (updated) — new keypoint types and methods

Computational Photography »

ImageEffect (updated) — added new effects

ImageExposureCombine (updated) — extended to handle HDR images

Computational Microscopy

BrightnessEqualize — estimate and equalize uneven image illumination

Image3DProjection — compute a projection of a 3D image onto a plane

Feature Detection »

ImageMesh — convert the foreground of an image to a boundary mesh region

ImageDisplacements — find dense optical flow across a sequence of images

TextRecognize — support for multiple languages

Segment Analysis »

ComponentMeasurements, SelectComponents — more flexible interface for component selection

HighlightImage — dramatically expanded capabilities for highlighting elements of images

DynamicImage — interactive image viewer for panning and zooming in large images

ZoomFactor  ▪  ZoomCenter

Computational Photography »

ColorToneMapping — transform an HDR image so small luminance variations are visible

ImageExposureCombine — create an image from images with different exposure

ImageFocusCombine — create a high-depth-of-focus image from multiple images

ColorBalance  ▪  GuidedFilter

General Updates & Generalizations

ImagePad — pad using texture synthesis

HighlightImage — highlight any region

Inpaint  ▪  ImageAlign  ▪  Thumbnail  ▪  FindGeometricTransform  ▪  ColorDistance

ButterworthFilterModel  ▪  Chebyshev1FilterModel

Computer Vision »

ImageIdentify — try to identify what an image is of

ImageInstanceQ — test whether an image is of something specified

New Import & Export Formats

"Raw" — support for all standard raw image formats

New in Image Processing & Analysis »

BarcodeImage, BarcodeRecognize — generate and recognize 1D or 2D barcodes

ConformImages — make a list of images that have conforming properties

RemoveBackground — separate and remove background from an image

DominantColors — improvements and new options to find a list of dominant colors

RandomColor  ▪  ColorDistance  ▪  ChromaticityPlot

ConstantImage  ▪  LinearGradientImage  ▪  RadialGradientImage

ImageCollage  ▪  LocalAdaptiveBinarize  ▪  GrowCutComponents  ▪  ImageApplyIndexed  ▪  ImageSaliencyFilter  ▪  SavitzkyGolayMatrix

Use more functions for processing and analyzing 3D images.

ComponentMeasurements  ▪  SelectComponents

ImageRotate  ▪  ImageTransformation  ▪  ImagePerspectiveTransformation

EdgeDetect  ▪  CrossingDetect  ▪  ContourDetect  ▪  CornerFilter

HistogramTransform  ▪  HistogramTransformInterpolation

FourierDCTFilter

New in Image Processing & Analysis »

Image3D — create a 3D image from an array of data or a list of images

Image3DSlices — slice through a 3D image in each dimension

ImageFileApply, ImageFileFilter, ImageFileScan — out-of-core image processing

ImageMeasurements — returns specified properties of an image

ImageDistance — compute various difference measures between two images

ImageValuePositions, PixelValuePositions — positions of the specified pixel value

ReplaceImageValue  ▪  ReplacePixelValue  ▪  ColorReplace

ColorProfileData — representation for general color spaces

DominantColors — find a list of dominant colors

HistogramTransform, HistogramTransformInterpolation — equalize levels

GradientOrientationFilter  ▪  GaborFilter

NonlocalMeansFilter  ▪  FourierDCTFilter

FindFaces — find human faces in an image

ImageCorners  ▪  ImageFeatureTrack

GeodesicClosing  ▪  GeodesicOpening

ImagePeriodogram — squared magnitude of the image Fourier transform

New Import & Export Formats »

"CUR" — now supported by Export

"FITS" — import of binary tables, export of attributes

"ICO" — now supported by Export

"JPEG" — enhanced Exif and color profile support

"PNG" — added support for color profiles

"PNM" — improved support for various data formats

"TIFF" — added support for 3D images and color profiles

Image Processing Enhancements »

ImageTransformation — pixelwise functional transformation of an image

EdgeDetect — detect edges in an image using Canny and other methods

RandomImage — generate a random image from a distribution

ImageCapture — capture an image from your computer's primary camera device

ImageKeypoints — find keypoints and associated feature vectors in an image

ImageCooccurrence — create a texture co-occurrence matrix

TextRecognize — extract text from an image

ImageDeconvolve  ▪  ContourDetect  ▪  CrossingDetect  ▪  SkeletonTransform  ▪  PrincipalComponents  ▪  ...

MeanShiftFilter  ▪  RangeFilter  ▪  TotalVariationFilter  ▪  WienerFilter  ▪  ...

WatershedComponents — watershed transform of an image

ComponentMeasurements — shape and color analysis

FillingTransform  ▪  MorphologicalBinarize  ▪  ImageForestingComponents  ▪  ...

Image Processing »

New image processing functionality with many functions added »

Image — a symbolic representation of an image

ImageQ — test if the expression represents an image

Image Properties »

ImageData — the array of raster data for an image

ImageDimensions  ▪  ImageChannels  ▪  ImageType  ▪  ImageHistogram  ▪  ...

Basic Image Manipulation »

Thumbnail — a thumbnail version of an image

ImageAdjust  ▪  ImageCompose  ▪  ImageEffect  ▪  ...

ImageAdd  ▪  ImageSubtract  ▪  ImageApply  ▪  ...

Geometric Operations »

ImageResize  ▪  ImagePad  ▪  ImageCrop  ▪  ImageRotate  ▪  ...

ImageAssemble  ▪  ImagePartition

Color Manipulation »

ColorConvert — convert between image color spaces

ColorSeparate  ▪  ColorCombine  ▪  ColorQuantize  ▪  ColorReplace  ▪  ...

Filtering & Neighborhood Processing »

ImageConvolve, ImageCorrelate — general image convolution and correlation

Sharpen  ▪  Blur  ▪  GaussianFilter  ▪  GradientFilter  ▪  EntropyFilter  ▪  ...

DiskMatrix  ▪  BoxMatrix  ▪  DiamondMatrix  ▪  ...

Morphological Image Processing »

Dilation  ▪  Erosion  ▪  Opening  ▪  Closing

DistanceTransform  ▪  TopHatTransform  ▪  MorphologicalComponents  ▪  ...