This is the nineteenth in the annual survey series of the yearly bibliographies on image engineering in China. The purpose of this survey work is mainly to capture the up-to-date development of image engineering in China

to provide a convenient means of literature searching facility for readers working in related areas

and to supply a useful reference for the editors of journals and potential authors of papers. Considering the wide distribution of related publications in China

716 literatures on image engineering are selected carefully from 2986 research and application papers published in 140 issues of a set of 15 Chinese important journals related to image engineering. Those selected literatures are classified first into 5 categories(image processing

image analysis

image understanding

technique application and survey)

and then into 23 specialized classes according to their main contents(same as the last 8 years). Some analysis and discussions about the statistics made on the results of classifications by journal and by category are also presented

respectively. According to the statistics and analysis on the results

it seems that image segmentation is still a focus and critical point in image analysis

and has strong challenging; identification of image authenticity and inpainting for image integrity get more and more attentions recently; the research on human biometrics based on image techniques requires some new pushing force; and the domains of remote sensing

radar as well as survey and draw are the hottest field for technology applications of image engineering in 2013. This work shows a general and off-the-shelf picture of the various progresses of image engineering research and application with some new developing characteristics and tendencies in China in 2013.