Image Processing from Handcrafted Operators to Foundation Models: A Critical Review of Methods, Applications and Recent Advances
Ankatwar Gajanan, Narote Preetham, Gajjala Lilly Rani, Alurwad Tripat Venkatreddy & K Krunal Yadav · Advances in Research · 2026
Digital image processing has evolved from deterministic operators designed around explicit assumptions to data-driven systems that learn representations, priors and decision rules from large image collections. This transition has improved performance in restoration, segmentation,...