Preface - Emerging Trends in Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition, 1st Edition (2015)

Emerging Trends in Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition, 1st Edition (2015)

Preface

It gives me a great pleasure to introduce this collection of papers to the readers of the book series “Emerging Trends in Computer Science and Applied Computing” (Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier). This book is entitled Emerging Trends in Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition. I am indebted to Professor Leonidas Deligiannidis of Wentworth Institute of Technology (Boston, MA) for acting as the senior editor of this book. His tireless energy, leadership and strategic ability made the implementation of this project a wonderful experience.

From the computer science perspective, the core of imaging science includes the following three intertwined computer science fields, namely: image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition. This book covers the emerging trends in these three important areas. There is significant renewed interest in each of these three fields because of the Big Data initiative with applications as diverse as computational biology, biometrics, biomedical imaging, robotics, security, knowledge engineering, and others. Although, the topic of Big Data Analytics is not explicitly addressed in this book, many algorithms and methodologies that appear in this book can be applied (some with straightforward extensions) to Big Data.

This book is composed of selected papers that were accepted for the 2013 and 2014 international conference on image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition (IPCV’13 and IPCV’14), July, Las Vegas, USA. Selected authors were given the opportunity to submit the extended versions of their conference papers for publication consideration in this book. The IPCV annual conferences are held as part of the World Congress in computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing, WORLDCOMP. An important mission of WORLDCOMP includes “Providing a unique platform for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities (such as universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives.” Since this book is composed of the extended versions of the accepted papers of IPCV annual conferences, it is no surprise that the book has chapters from highly qualified and diverse group of authors.

I am very grateful to the many colleagues who offered their services in organizing the IPCV conferences. Their help was instrumental in the formation of this book. The members of the editorial committee included:

• Dr. Selim Aissi, Vice President, Global Information Security, Visa Inc., USA (formerly: Chief Strategist—Security, Intel Corporation, USA)

• Dr. Eng. Hamid Ali Abed Al-Asadi, Head of Computer Science Department, Faculty of Education for Pure Science, Basra University, Basra, Iraq

• Prof. Rafeeq AbdulRahman Al-Hashemi, Dean of Information Technology, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Jordan

• Prof. Ezendu Ariwa, Faculty of Computer Science and Technology, University of Bedfordshire, UK; Chair, IEEE Consumer Electronics & Broadcast Technology Chapter, UKRI; and Chair, IEEE Technology Management Council Chapter, UKRI, UK

• Prof. Michael Panayiotis Bekakos, Professor of Computer Systems; Director, Laboratory of Digital Systems, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece; Head, Parallel Algorithms and architectures Research Group (PAaRG); and Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations, USA

• Dr. Sidahmed Benabderrahmane, INRIA (French National Computer Science Institute), France

• Prof. Juan Jose Martinez Castillo, Director of The Acantelys Research Group and Coordinator of the Computer Engineering Department, Universidad Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho, Venezuela

• Dr. Daniel Bo-Wei Chen, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA

• Dr. Lamia Atma Djoudi, Synchrone Technologies, France

• Prof. Mary Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner, Professor of Engineering Practice, University of Southern California, California, USA and Adjunct Professor, Electrical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles (UCLA), California, USA

• Prof. Oleg Finko, Krasnodar Higher Military Command Engineering School Rocket Forces, Russia and Institute of Information Technology and security, Kuban State Technological University, Russia

• Prof. Mohammad Shahadat Hossain, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh; Visiting Professor, Trisakti University, Indonesia; and Visiting Academic Staff, The University of Manchester, UK

• Prof. George Jandieri, Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia; Chief Scientist, The Institute of Cybernetics, Georgian Academy of Science, Georgia; and Editorial Board Member: International Journal of Microwaves and Optical Technology, The Open Atmospheric Science Journal, American Journal of Remote Sensing

• Prof. Young-Sik Jeong, Department of Multimedia Engineering, Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS)

• Dr. Sunil Kothari, HP Labs, Palo Alto, California, USA

• Prof. Joan Lu, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK

• Dr. Andrew Marsh, CEO, HoIP Telecom Ltd (Healthcare over Internet Protocol), UK and Secretary General of World Academy of BioMedical Sciences and Technologies (WABT) a UNESCO NGO, The United Nations

• Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DCSE), SeoulTech, Korea; President, FTRA, Editor-in-Chief, HCIS Springer, JoC, IJITCC; and Head of DCSE, SeoulTech, Korea

• Dr. Muhammad Imran Razzak, Department of Health Informatics, College of Public Health & Health Informatics, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

• Prof. Gerald Schaefer, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK

• Prof. Fernando G. Tinetti, School of Computer Science, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina and Co-editor, Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCS&T)

• Prof. Vladimir Volkov, The Bonch-Bruevich State University of Telecommunications, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

• Prof. Patrick S. P. Wang, Fellow: IAPR, ISIBM, WASE; Professor of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA and Zijiang Visiting Chair, ECNU, Shanghai, NTUST, Taipei; iCORE Visiting Professor, University of Calgary, Canada; and Otto-von-Guericke Distinguished Guest Professor, University Magdeburg, Germany

• Prof. Shiuh-Jeng Wang, Department of Information Management, Central Police University, Taiwan; Program Chair, Security & Forensics, Taiwan, R.O.C.; and Director, Information Crypto and Construction Lab (ICCL) & ICCL-FROG

• Dr. Wei Wei, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, P. R. China and Member of China Computer Federation (CCF), P. R. China

• Prof. Mary Q. Yang (ABDA and BIOCOMP), Director, Mid-South Bioinformatics Center and Joint Bioinformatics Ph.D. Program, Medical Sciences and George W. Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Arkansas, USA

• Prof. Jane You, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

I express my gratitude to Steve Elliot (Elsevier Executive Editor) and Kaitlin Herbert (Elsevier Editorial Project Manager). I hope that you enjoy reading this book.