Introduction to Special Issue on Image and Video Processing

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Background

The rapid developments of visual communication technologies and their use in portable devices, image sensors, medical imaging, video, entertainment, and wide use of social networking have advanced image and video processing research dramatically. As images and videos have become major means of communication and verification, the creation, transfer, and storage of high-quality images and videos require special attention. These advancements, and the need for image and video processing in many

Quick facts about this special issue

This is the third special issue on image processing; two special issues on the same topic were published in September 2011 and September 2012. We expect to have more special issues on image and video processing as the area is open to new developments with many productive researchers. This issue focuses on recent efforts and results in addressing image and video processing challenges and recent solutions to these challenges. It is intended to present a big picture of image and video processing

Scanning the issue

The papers in this special issue can be grouped in five main areas: Image Classification and Content-Based Image Retrieval, Video Processing and 3D Technologies, Transportation and Automotive, Image Security and Compression, and Advance Image Processing Techniques.

There are four articles in the area of Image Classification and Content-Based Image Retrieval in various application domains such as face recognition, remote sensing, image re-indexing, and image retrieval based on color and texture

Ferat Sahin received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1997 and 2000, respectively. In September 2000, he joined Rochester Institute of Technology, where he is an Associate Professor. He is also the director of Multi Agent Bio-Robotics Laboratory at RIT. His current research interests are System of Systems Simulation and Modeling, Swarm Intelligence, Robotics, MEMS Materials Modeling, MEMS-based Microrobots, Decision Theory, Pattern

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Ferat Sahin received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1997 and 2000, respectively. In September 2000, he joined Rochester Institute of Technology, where he is an Associate Professor. He is also the director of Multi Agent Bio-Robotics Laboratory at RIT. His current research interests are System of Systems Simulation and Modeling, Swarm Intelligence, Robotics, MEMS Materials Modeling, MEMS-based Microrobots, Decision Theory, Pattern Recognition, and Bayesian Network Learning. In addition to conference and journal publications in these areas, he is also the co-author of two books: “Experimental and Practical Robotics” and “Intelligent Control Systems with an Introduction to System of Systems Engineering” by CRC Press. He serves as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering and as an Associate Editor for IEEE Systems Journal and AutoSoft Journal. He is an active member of IEEE SMC Society and served in the Society as the Student Activities chair (2001, 2002, and 2003), Secretary (2003–2006) and Treasurer (2011).

Ryan M. Bowen received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in 2008 and 2013 respectively. In June 2011, he became a Ph.D. candidate in the Microsystems Engineering Program at Rochester Institute of Technology. His current research interests involve Optimization of MEMS Devices using Soft-Computing, MEMS actuators, Genetic Algorithms, Robotics, System of System Architectures and Frameworks, Fuzzy Image Processing, and Automated Image Processing Systems. He has contributed conference publications in the fields of System of Systems, Image processing and Robotics. He is a guest editor for the International Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering. Additionally, he is the current acting lab manager for the Multi Agent Bio-Robotics Laboratory at RIT, where he also coordinates many of their robotics outreach programs; including RoboCamp, RoboWeekend, and K-5 Enrichment. Locally, he is a mentor for a high school FIRST Robotics teams and has been involved with FIRST LEGO League.

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