As of 2021[update], its editor-in-chief is Bedrich Benes of the Purdue University.
[2] Founded in 1972 as Computer Graphics and Image Processing[3] by Azriel Rosenfeld, it became the first journal to focus on computer image analysis.
[4][5] Its first change of name came in 1983, when it became Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing.
[8] Meanwhile, in 1995, the journal Graphical Models and Image Processing removed the "CVGIP" prefix from its former name,[9] and finally took its current title, Graphical Models, in 2002.
[10] Although initially ranked by SCImago Journal Rank 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.