''Graphical Models'' is an

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computer graphics Computer graphics deals with generating images with the aid of computers. Today, computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. A great de ...

and

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publisher by

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. , its

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is Jorg Peters of the

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History

This journal has gone through multiple names. Founded in 1972 as ''Computer Graphics and Image Processing'' by

Azriel Rosenfeld Azriel Rosenfeld (February 19, 1931 – February 22, 2004) was an American Research Professor, a Distinguished University Professor, and Director of the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, where he ...

, it became the first journal to focus on computer image analysis. Its first change of name came in 1983, when it became ''Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing''. In 1991 it split into two journals, ''CVGIP: Graphical Models and Image Processing'', and ''CVGIP: Image Understanding'', which later became ''Computer Vision and Image Understanding''. Meanwhile, in 1995, the journal ''Graphical Models and Image Processing'' removed the "CVGIP" prefix from its former name, and finally took its current title, ''Graphical Models'', in 2002.

Ranking

Although initially ranked by

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as a top-quartile journal in 1999 in its main topic areas, computer graphics and computer-aided design, and then for many years ranked as second-quartile, by 2020 it had fallen to the third quartile.

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