Image Analysis
Image Analysis (images to data) is extracting and measuring information or objects from picture or video. Typical applications including measuring "detected" objects, such as count, size, length, distance between features, etc. Other measurements may be densiometric, or based on pixel intensity, such as gray-level (or color) statistics. Image analysis is rarely an ends to itself, it is normally subsequently used with data modeling or classification.Image Processing (images to images), on the other hand, is transforming images into other images, often for improving contrast or other enhancement. Sometimes contrast enhancement is the desired end (e.g. visualization), and other times a pre-processing step before image analysis.
Examples
modeling, modelling, simulation, simulate, imaging, ARENA, Matlab, self-organiz maps, neural networks, agent-based, image analysis, pattern recognition, algorithm, scientific computation, distribution analysis, logistics simulation, signal analysis, foot-traffic analysis, supply chain simulation, virtual store, image processing, facility simulation, hidden markov model