IET Image Processing

IET Image Processing is a peer-reviewed journal from the Institution of Engineering and Technology, published on the Wiley Online Library and devoted to the generation, processing, coding and communication of visual information.《IET 图像处理》是英国工程技术学会（Institution of Engineering and Technology）主办，在 Wiley Online Library 上出版的同行评审期刊，内容围绕视觉信息的生成，处理，编码与传输。

Founded in 2007, the title carries a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.4 and covers image and video processing from sensor capture through display, with applications across science, medicine and industry.该刊 2007 年创刊，2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，选题从传感器采集一直延伸到显示输出，覆盖图像与视频处理的各个环节，应用面涉及科学，医学与工业。

Scope

• The stated remit opens with generation and display, taking in imaging sensors and acquisition systems, illumination, sampling and scanning, quantization, colour reproduction, and the rendering, display and printing systems built on them.收录范围先从生成与显示写起，涵盖成像传感器与采集系统，照明，采样与扫描，量化，色彩再现，以及建立在这些环节之上的渲染与打印显示系统。
• Quality assessment belongs to the same opening strand, since the aims name evaluation of image quality as a principal topic rather than leaving it to instrumentation journals.质量评价同属这一支，办刊说明把图像质量评估列为主要选题，不把它让给仪器类刊物。
• Processing and analysis form the largest block, led by enhancement and restoration, where denoising, deblurring and super-resolution are weighed on whether the gain survives realistic imaging conditions.处理与分析是最大的一块，增强与恢复居首，去噪，去模糊与超分辨率的改进要在真实成像条件下仍然成立才算数。
• Segmentation and registration follow, and work on medical, remote-sensing and microscopy imagery is common because the journal asks for methods that travel beyond one dataset or scanner.分割与配准紧随其后，医学，遥感与显微成像的稿件常见，刊物要求方法能跨数据集与跨设备迁移。
• Colour and texture analysis, multispectral imaging and multiresolution processing with wavelets are listed by name, which keeps low-level representation work inside the core rather than at its margin.色彩与纹理分析，多光谱成像，小波多分辨率处理都被逐项点名，底层表征研究因此留在核心而不是边缘。
• Morphological operations, stereo and three-dimensional processing, motion detection and estimation, and video or image-sequence work complete the analysis list, giving dynamic scenes a standing place in the coverage.形态学运算，立体与三维处理，运动检测与估计，视频与图像序列研究补足分析一侧，动态场景因此长期在选题之内。
• Implementations and architectures take in hardware and software for image and video processing, design and construction, and neural, adaptive or fuzzy processing, so engineering papers on real-time pipelines fit.实现与架构一侧收录图像与视频处理的硬件与软件，设计与构造，以及神经，自适应与模糊处理，实时流水线一类工程论文因此对路。
• Coding and communication cover compression and coding, compression standards, noise modelling, visual information networks and streaming video, a strand that ties the title to broadcast, storage and networking practice.编码与传输涵盖压缩与编码，压缩标准，噪声建模，视觉信息网络与流媒体视频，把刊物与广播，存储和网络实务连在一起。
• Retrieval and multimedia are named as a block of their own, with image and video storage, database design, image retrieval, video annotation and editing, mixed media and multimedia systems treated as legitimate subjects.检索与多媒体单列一块，图像与视频存储，数据库设计，图像检索，视频标注与编辑，混合媒体与多媒体系统都算正当选题。
• Watermarking and steganography sit in that same section, and work on robustness, perceptual invisibility and payload capacity is refereed as image processing rather than as pure security engineering.水印与隐写列在同一节，稳健性，感知不可见性与载荷容量的研究按图像处理评审，不归入单纯的安全工程。
• Applications close the list and stay deliberately open, naming life sciences, earth sciences, astronomy, document processing and security as fields where visual techniques are expected to be adapted.应用一类写得开放，生命科学，地球科学，天文学，文档处理与安全都在其中，刊物希望视觉技术在这些领域被改写而不是照搬。
• Research papers dominate the pages, and shorter communications and review articles are also taken, so a group can report a compact result or survey a crowded subfield without a full paper.研究论文占据主要版面，短通讯与综述同样接收，作者既可以报一个紧凑的结果，也可以梳理一个拥挤的分支而无需铺成全文。
• The one-line summary in the aims joins three verbs, generation, processing and communication, wording that signals transmission-side work is as welcome as the algorithmic core.办刊说明用一句话把生成，处理与传输三个动作串起来，这样的措辞说明传输一侧的工作与算法核心同样受欢迎。

History

• The Institution of Engineering and Technology was created in 2006 by the merger of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the Institution of Incorporated Engineers, and launched this title the following year.英国工程技术学会由电气工程师学会（Institution of Electrical Engineers）与联合工程师学会（Institution of Incorporated Engineers）于 2006 年合并而成，次年推出这份刊物。
• Image papers from the same institution had appeared in its proceedings series before that, and the series ended in 2007 when the field was split into separate image and signal titles.在此之前，同一体系的图像类论文发表在该学会的会刊系列里，2007 年该系列停办，图像与信号处理被拆成两份新刊。
• Volume 1 appeared in 2007 with four issues, and the quarterly rhythm lasted a single year before volume 2 moved to six issues in 2008.第 1 卷于 2007 年出版，全年 4 期，这一季刊节奏只维持了一年，2008 年第 2 卷改为 6 期。
• Growth came in steps, with eight issues by volume 5 in 2011 and nine in volumes 6 and 7, a schedule that tracked the spread of digital imaging research.扩版一步一步来，2011 年第 5 卷为 8 期，第 6 卷与第 7 卷增至 9 期，节奏跟上了数字成像研究的扩张。
• Volume 8 in 2014 carried twelve issues, the monthly schedule it kept for the rest of that decade, and the change turned a quarterly outlet into a routine one.2014 年第 8 卷出满 12 期，月刊节奏此后保持到那个十年结束，季刊由此变成常规出口。
• Volume 13 ran to fourteen issues in 2019 and volume 14 to seventeen in 2020, a high point that reflected submissions rather than any widening of the remit.2019 年第 13 卷出 14 期，2020 年第 14 卷出到 17 期，这个高点来自来稿量，收录范围并没有放宽。
• Volumes 15 to 18, covering 2021 through 2024, each ran to a dozen or more issues, a period in which convolutional networks and then vision transformers became the common frame.2021 年至 2024 年的第 15 至第 18 卷每年都在 12 期以上，卷积网络与随后的视觉变换器成了版面上最常见的框架。
• Hosting moved in 2021, when the IET list left IEEE Xplore for Wiley Online Library, and the archive from 2013 onward became free at the same time.托管在 2021 年换了平台，学会刊物从 IEEE Xplore 迁到 Wiley Online Library，2013 年以来的存档也在同期开放。
• The move came with a licence change, as the whole IET list flipped to gold open access, so every paper now carries a Creative Commons licence and none sits behind a paywall.迁移同时带来许可模式的改动，学会旗下刊物整体转为金色开放获取，每篇论文都带知识共享许可，付费墙随之取消。
• Authors choose between the CC BY and CC BY-ND licences, and an article processing charge falls due on acceptance, both set out on the journal's open access pages.作者可在 CC BY 与 CC BY-ND 两种许可之间选择，录用后需缴文章处理费，两点都写在刊物的开放获取说明里。
• Indexing took the usual route for IET titles, with Science Citation Index Expanded coverage from the start and selective PubMed records for papers of clinical or biomedical interest.收录走学会刊物的常规路径，从创刊起进入科学引文索引扩展版，PubMed 则择要收录临床与生物医学相关的文章。
• The 2025 Journal Citation Reports credit it with 5,110 citations, 257 articles published that year and a cited half-life of 4.4 years, alongside a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.41.2025 年的期刊引证报告记下累计被引 5110 次，当年发文 257 篇，被引半衰期 4.4 年，期刊引文指标 0.41。
• The impact factor of 2.4 leaves it in the third quartile of all three categories it sits in, artificial intelligence 139 of 210, electrical engineering 215 of 369 and imaging science 27 of 39.影响因子 2.4 让它在所属三个类目里都落在第三四分位，人工智能类 210 种中排第 139，电气与电子工程类 369 种中排第 215，成像科学与照相技术类 39 种中排第 27。
• From 2025 the issue grid was dropped, and volumes 19 and 20 each carry a single issue, with papers appearing under article numbers once accepted.2025 年起期号栅格取消，第 19 卷与第 20 卷各只有第 1 期，论文录用后即以文章编号上线。

Editors

• Dimitrios Makris, professor of computer vision at Kingston University London, holds the editor-in-chief post, and his own work runs on visual surveillance, human motion analysis and behaviour recognition.主编是 Dimitrios Makris，伦敦金斯顿大学（Kingston University London）计算机视觉教授，研究工作集中在视觉监控，人体运动分析与基于视频的行为识别。
• Handling sits with a team of associate editors who each look after a slice of the field, from computational imaging and restoration to medical image analysis and remote sensing.日常稿件由一组副编辑分担，各人管一块，从计算成像与图像恢复，到医学图像分析与遥感。
• An advisory board of senior figures guides direction, and its earlier membership included Antonis Argyros of FORTH in Crete, Christoph Busch of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Tieniu Tan.顾问委员会由资深学者组成，为办刊方向提供意见，早年成员包括克里特岛 FORTH 的 Antonis Argyros，挪威科技大学（Norwegian University of Science and Technology）的 Christoph Busch 与中国科学院的 Tieniu Tan。
• Review is single anonymous, so referees stay unnamed while author identities are visible to them, a model the publisher records in its public journal summary.评审采用单匿名方式，审稿人姓名不向作者公开，作者身份对审稿人可见，这一模式写在出版方的公开说明里。
• Two independent reports are the norm before a decision, and where they conflict the handling editor either commissions a third opinion or weighs the arguments put.决定之前通常要有两份独立意见，意见相左时由处理编辑再找一位审稿人，或者直接权衡双方理由。
• Papers outside the remit, or too preliminary to survive refereeing, are returned without review, a filter that matters given how many submissions arrive each year.超出范围或过于初步的稿件不经评审直接退回，这道筛子有必要，每年的来稿量远大于可发表的篇幅。
• Revisions return to the same editor, who checks whether the referees' points have been met, and authors who think a decision was misjudged may appeal in writing.修回稿回到同一位编辑手里，由他核对审稿意见是否落实，作者若认为判断有误，可以书面向编辑部申诉。
• Special issues take a sizeable share of the output, each with guest editors and a published call, and proposals are assessed by the editorial team before a call opens.专刊占了相当篇幅，每辑有客座编辑与公开征稿启事，选题先经编辑团队评估，之后才开放征稿。
• Ethics follow the publisher's framework, with author contributions stated, competing interests declared and image manipulation checked, a point that matters where figures are the evidence.伦理要求沿用出版方框架，作者贡献要写明，利益冲突要申报，图像是否被修饰也在核查之列，在以图为证据的领域格外要紧。
• Authors may suggest referees and name people they would rather not have assess the work, though neither list binds the editor, who keeps the final choice.作者可以推荐审稿人，也可以点名希望回避的人，两份名单对编辑没有约束力，最终人选由编辑决定。
• Board members come from Britain, continental Europe, East Asia and North America, a spread that helps the editors find referees for work from outside the anglophone core.编委来自英国，欧洲大陆，东亚与北美，这样的分布让编辑能为英语圈核心之外的研究找到合适审稿人。
• Correspondence runs through the Manuscript Central site linked from the journal page, and scope queries sent before a manuscript is written usually get a short answer.投稿往来走刊页所链的 Manuscript Central，动笔之前去信问选题是否合适，通常会收到简短答复。