This collective work identifies the latest developments in the field of the automatic processing and analysis of digital color images.

For researchers and students, it represents a critical state of the art on the scientific issues raised by the various steps constituting the chain of color image processing.

It covers a wide range of topics related to computational color imaging, including color filtering and segmentation, color texture characterization, color invariant for object recognition, color and motion analysis, as well as color image and video indexing and retrieval.

Christine FERNANDEZ-MALOIGNE is Professor at Poitiers University, Manager of Xlim-SIC Laboratory, Chasseneuil, France.

Frédérique ROBERT-INACIO is Researcher at IM2NP and lecturer at ISEN, Toulon, France.

Ludovic MACAIRE is Full Professor at Lille 1 University,LAGIS Laboratory, Villeneuve d'Asq, France.