Emerging Technologies in Intelligent Applications for Image and Video Processing

Contributed by computer scientists and engineers from Asia, the US, and Iran, the 18 chapters in this volume examine image and video processing in different applications using intelligent computing techniques. They discuss image and video enhancement, restoration, and segmentation using sparse representation, optimizing segmentation parameters, noise removal techniques, and depth in two-dimensional video captures; image and video compression, indexing, and retrieval, including wavelet transform algorithms, fast block motion estimation in high-efficiency video coding, multi-modal fusion schemes, and quadtree; image and video processing in public safety, including the early recognition of suspicious activity for crime prevention, iris identification, object classification and tracking, gait-based biometric authentication, lung disease classification, and a multimodal biometric system; and image and video classification, clustering, and applications, including automatic image annotation, biomedical imaging techniques, the diagnosis of age-related macular degeneration, and automatic detection and classification of ischemic stroke. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)