In recent years visual devices have proliferated, from the massive high-resolution, high-contrast screens to the tiny ones on mobile phones, with their limited dynamic range and color gamut. The wide variety of screens on which content may be viewed creates a challenge for developers. Adapting visual content for optimized viewing on all devices is called retargeting. This is the first book to provide a holistic view of the subject, thoroughly reviewing and analyzing the many techniques that have been developed for retargeting along dimensions such as color gamut, dynamic range, and spatial resolution.

In recent years visual devices have proliferated, from the massive high-resolution, high-contrast screens to the tiny ones on mobile phones, with their limited dynamic range and color gamut. The wide variety of screens on which content may be viewed creates a challenge for developers. Adapting visual content for optimized viewing on all devices is called retargeting. This is the first book to provide a holistic view of the subject, thoroughly reviewing and analyzing the many techniques that have been developed for retargeting along dimensions such as color gamut, dynamic range, and spatial resolution.

The field of Intelligent Systems and Applications has expanded enormously during the last two decades. Theoretical and practical results in this area are growing rapidly due to many successful applications and new theories derived from many diverse problems. This book is dedicated to the Intelligent Systems and Applications in many different aspects. In particular, this book is to provide highlights of the current research in Intelligent Systems and Applications. It consists of research papers in the following specific topics: l Authentication, Identification, and Signature l Intrusion Detection l Steganography, Data Hiding, and Watermarking l Database, System, and Communication Security l Computer Vision, Object Tracking, and Pattern Recognition l Image Processing, Medical Image Processing, and Video Coding l Digital Content, Digital Life, and Human Computer Interaction l Parallel, Peer-to-peer, Distributed, and Cloud Computing l Software Engineering and Programming Language This book provides a reference to theoretical problems as well as practical solutions and applications for the state-of-the-art results in Intelligent Systems and Applications on the aforementioned topics. In particular, both the academic community (graduate students, post-doctors and faculties) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Applied Mathematics; and the industrial community (engineers, engineering managers, programmers, research lab staffs and managers, security managers) will find this book interesting.

Issues in Electronic Circuits, Devices, and Materials: 2013 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ book that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Microwave Research. The editors have built Issues in Electronic Circuits, Devices, and Materials: 2013 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Microwave Research in this book to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Electronic Circuits, Devices, and Materials: 2013 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

This book highlights recent research on Intelligent Systems and Nature Inspired Computing. It presents 212 selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2018) and the 10th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC), which was held at VIT University, India. ISDA-NaBIC 2018 was a premier conference in the field of Computational Intelligence and brought together researchers, engineers and practitioners whose work involved intelligent systems and their applications in industry and the “real world.” Including contributions by authors from over 40 countries, the book offers a valuable reference guide for all researchers, students and practitioners in the fields of Computer Science and Engineering.

The book provides insights into the Second International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP-2017) organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. The book presents technological progress and research outcomes in the area of image processing and computer vision. The topics covered in this book are image/video processing and analysis; image/video formation and display; image/video filtering, restoration, enhancement and super-resolution; image/video coding and transmission; image/video storage, retrieval and authentication; image/video quality; transform-based and multi-resolution image/video analysis; biological and perceptual models for image/video processing; machine learning in image/video analysis; probability and uncertainty handling for image/video processing; motion and tracking; segmentation and recognition; shape, structure and stereo.

Robotics and autonomous systems can aid disabled individuals in daily living or make a workplace more productive, but these tools are only as effective as the technology behind them. Robotic systems must be able to accurately identify and act upon elements in their environment to be effective in performing their duties. Innovative Research in Attention Modeling and Computer Vision Applications explores the latest research in image processing and pattern recognition for use in robotic real-time cryptography and surveillance applications. This book provides researchers, students, academicians, software designers, and application developers with next-generation insight into the use of computer vision technologies in a variety of industries and endeavors. This premier reference work includes chapters on topics ranging from biometric and facial recognition technologies, to digital image and video watermarking, among many others.

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The two-volume set LNCS 6753/6754 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Image and Recognition, ICIAR 2011, held in Burnaby, Canada, in June 2011. The 84 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 147 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image and video processing; feature extraction and pattern recognition; computer vision; color, texture, motion and shape; tracking; biomedical image analysis; biometrics; face recognition; image coding, compression and encryption; and applications.

This book presents essential algorithms for the image processing pipeline of photo-printers and accompanying software tools, offering an exposition of multiple image enhancement algorithms, smart aspect-ratio changing techniques for borderless printing and approaches for non-standard printing modes. All the techniques described are content-adaptive and operate in an automatic mode thanks to machine learning reasoning or ingenious heuristics. The first part includes algorithms, for example, red-eye correction and compression artefacts reduction, that can be applied in any photo processing application, while the second part focuses specifically on printing devices, e.g. eco-friendly and anaglyph printing. The majority of the techniques presented have a low computational complexity because they were initially designed for integration in system-on-chip. The book reflects the authors’ practical experience in algorithm development for industrial R&D.