Image, Video, and Multimedia Processing

SERIES EDITORS: Alan C. Bovik, University of Texas, Austin
These lectures are intended to provide a unique and groundbreaking forum for the world’s experts in the field to express their knowledge in unique and effective ways. In terms of the subject matter for the series, there are few limitations that we will impose other than the Lectures be related to aspects of the imaging sciences that are relevant to furthering our understanding of the processes by which images, videos, and multimedia signals are formed, processed for various tasks, and perceived by human viewers. These categories are naturally quite broad, for two reasons: First, measuring, processing, and understanding perceptual signals involves broad categories of scientific inquiry, including optics, surface physics, visual psychophysics and neurophysiology, information theory, computer graphics, display and printing technology, artificial intelligence, neural networks, harmonic analysis, and so on. Secondly, the domain of application of these methods is limited only by the number of branches of science, engineering, and industry that utilize audio, visual, and other perceptual signals to convey information. We anticipate that the Lectures in this series will dramatically influence future thought on these subjects as the Twenty-First Century unfolds.

Series ISSN: 1559-8136 (print) 1559-8144 (electronic)

Editor Bios

	Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments in 10 Lectures Stanislav Stankovic The book is based on the material originally developed for the course on Virtual Reality, which the author was teaching at Tampere University of Technology, as well as course on Virtual Environments that the author had prepared for the University fo… Publication Date: October, 2015 Read More
	Dictionary Learning in Visual Computing Qiang Zhang, Baoxin Li The last few years have witnessed fast development on dictionary learning approaches for a set of visual computing tasks, largely due to their utilization in developing new techniques based on sparse representation. Compared with conventional techniq… Publication Date: 5/1/2015 Read More
	Combating Bad Weather Part II Sudipta Mukhopadhyay , Abhishek Kumar Tripathi Every year lives and properties are lost in road accidents. About one-fourth of these accidents are due to low vision in foggy weather. At present, there is no algorithm that is specifically designed for the removal of fog from videos. Application of… Publication Date: 01/01/2015 Read More
	Combating Bad Weather Part I Sudipta Mukhopadhyay, Abhishek Kumar Tripathi Current vision systems are designed to perform in normal weather condition. However, no one can escape from severe weather conditions. Bad weather reduces scene contrast and visibility, which results in degradation in the performance of various compu… Publication Date: 12/01/2014 Read More
	Image Understanding using Sparse Representations Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy, Pavan Turaga, Andreas Spanias Image understanding has been playing an increasingly crucial role in several inverse problems and computer vision. Sparse models form an important component in image understanding, since they emulate the activity of neural receptors in the primary vi… Publication Date: 04/01/2014 Read More
	Contextual Analysis of Videos Myo Thida, How-lung Eng, Dorothy Monekosso, Paolo Remagnino Video context analysis is an active and vibrant research area, which provides means for extracting, analyzing and understanding behavior of a single target and multiple targets. Over the last few decades, computer vision researchers have been workin… Publication Date: 08/01/2013 Read More
	Wavelet Image Compression William Pearlman This book explains the stages necessary to create a wavelet compression system for images and describes state-of-the-art systems used in image compression standards and current research. It starts with a high level discussion of the properties of the… Publication Date: 01/01/2013 Read More
	Remote Sensing Image Processing Gustavo Camps-Valls, Devis Tuia, Luis Gomez-Chova, Sandra Jimenez, Jesus Malo Earth observation is the field of science concerned with the problem of monitoring and modeling the processes on the Earth surface and their interaction with the atmosphere. The Earth is continuously monitored with advanced optical and radar sensors…. Publication Date: 01/01/2011 Read More
	The Structure and Properties of Color Spaces and the Representation of Color Images Eric Dubois This lecture describes the author’s approach to the representation of color spaces and their use for color image processing. The lecture starts with a precise formulation of the space of physical stimuli (light). The model includes both continuous sp… Publication Date: 01/01/2009 Read More
	Biomedical Image Analysis – Segmentation Scott Acton, Nilanjan Ray, The sequel to the popular lecture book entitled Biomedical Image Analysis: Tracking, this book on Biomedical Image Analysis: Segmentation tackles the challenging task of segmenting biological and medical images. The problem of partitioning multidimen… Publication Date: 01/01/2009 Read More
	Tensor Voting Philippos Mordohai, Gerard Medioni This lecture presents research on a general framework for perceptual organization that was conducted mainly at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems of the University of Southern California. It is not written as a historical recount of t… Publication Date: 01/01/2006 Read More
	Super Resolution of Images and Video Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Rafael Molina, Javier Mateos This book focuses on the super resolution of images and video. The authors’ use of the term super resolution (SR) is used to describe the process of obtaining a high resolution (HR) image, or a sequence of HR images, from a set of low resolution (LR)… Publication Date: 01/01/2007 Read More
	Recognition of Humans and Their Activities Using Video Rama Chellappa, Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury, S. Kevin Zhou The recognition of humans and their activities from video sequences is currently a very active area of research because of its applications in video surveillance, design of realistic entertainment systems, multimedia communications, and medical diagn… Publication Date: 01/01/2005 Read More
	Real-Time Image and Video Processing Nasser Kehtarnavaz, Mark Gamadia This book presents an overview of the guidelines and strategies for transitioning an image or video processing algorithm from a research environment into a real-time constrained environment. Such guidelines and strategies are scattered in the literat… Publication Date: 01/01/2006 Read More
	MPEG-4 Beyond Conventional Video Coding Mihaela van der Schaar, Deepak S Turaga, Thomas Stockhammer An important merit of the MPEG-4 video standard is that it not only provided tools and algorithms for enhancing the compression efficiency of existing MPEG-2 and H.263 standards but also contributed key innovative solutions for new multimedia applica… Publication Date: 01/01/2006 Read More
	Modern Image Quality Assessment Zhou Wang, Alan C. Bovik This book is about objective image quality assessment – where the aim is to provide computational models that can automatically predict perceptual image quality. The early years of the 21st century have witnessed a tremendous growth in the use of dig… Publication Date: 01/01/2006 Read More
	Light Field Sampling Cha Zhang, Tsuhan Chen Light field is one of the most representative image-based rendering techniques that generate novel virtual views from images instead of 3D models. The light field capture and rendering process can be considered as a procedure of sampling the light ra… Publication Date: 01/01/2006 Read More
	Joint Source-Channel Video Transmission Fan Zhai, Aggelos Katsaggelos This book deals with the problem of joint source-channel video transmission, i.e., the joint optimal allocation of resources at the application layer and the other network layers, such as data rate adaptation, channel coding, power adaptation in wire… Publication Date: 01/01/2007 Read More
	Biomedical Image Analysis – Tracking Scott T. Acton, Nilanjan Ray, In biological and medical imaging applications, tracking objects in motion is a critical task. This book describes the state-of-the-art in biomedical tracking techniques. We begin by detailing methods for tracking using active contours, which have be… Publication Date: 01/01/2006 Read More