Image Processing Application to Particulate Solids Identification

The subject of particulate solid identification is examined from the point of view of image analysis applications. Many different conditions are taken into consideration: i) individual particles or particles in bulk; ii) standing or flowing objects; iii) B&W or RGB colour images; iv) the outline or the inside of the image domains; v) Fourier or Fractal analysis of particle boundary; vi) particle domain characterisation by pictorial or textural analysis; vii) feature extraction; viii) recognition and classification by classic statistical methods and/or ix) innovative methods as neural networks