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Editorial Review
From front-end sensors to systems and
environmental issues, this practical resource guides you through the
many facets of multimodal surveillance. The book examines thermal,
vibration, video, and audio sensors in a broad context of civilian and
military applications. This cutting-edge volume provides an in-depth
treatment of data fusion algorithms that takes you to the core of
multimodal surveillance, biometrics, and sentient computing. The book
discusses such people and activity topics as tracking people and
vehicles and identifying individuals by their speech.
Systems designers benefit from discussions
on 3-D scene and automatic modeling, high-end sensors for long-range
tracking or high-fidelity, and low-cost sensor solutions. Developers
gain new insight into architectures, frameworks, workbenches, real-time
performance, and systems evaluation. Bringing together the work of
leading international experts, this book is your authoritative reference
on multimodal applications, methodologies, and systems implementation.
About the Authors
Zhigang Zhu is an associate professor in the
Computer Science Department, City College of New York. An associate
editor of Machine Vision and Applications Journal, he has been involved
in organizing such meetings as the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, the
International Workshop on Digital and Computational Video, and the IEEE
International Workshop on Image and Video Registration. He received his
M.E. and Ph.D. in computer science from Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Thomas Huang is the William L. Everitt
Distinguished Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering and of the Coordinated Science Lab at the University of
Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. A frequent keynote speaker at professional
and academic conferences, he has garnered many professional honors
including the Honda Lifetime Achievement Award, IEEE Third Millennium
Medal, and the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal. He holds an
M.S. and Sc.D. in electrical engineering from M.I.T. |
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