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In classical image processing methodologies, pre-processing algorithms do not consider this information. Therefore, this paper presents an uncertainty-aware image pre-processing paradigm, that is aware of the input image\u2019s uncertainty and propagates it trough the entire pipeline. To accomplish this, we utilize rules for transformation and propagation of uncertainty to incorporate this additional information with a variety of operations. Resulting from this, we are able to adapt prominent image pre-processing algorithms such that they consider the input images uncertainty. Furthermore, we allow the composition of arbitrary image pre-processing pipelines and visually encode the accumulated uncertainty throughout this pipeline. 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