Book description
In recent years, Moore's law has fostered the steady growth of the
field of digital image processing, though the computational complexity
remains a problem for most of the digital image processing applications.
In parallel, the research domain of optical image processing has
matured, potentially bypassing the problems digital approaches were
suffering and bringing new applications. The advancement of technology
calls for applications and knowledge at the intersection of both areas
but there is a clear knowledge gap between the digital signal processing
and the optical processing communities. This book covers the fundamental
basis of the optical and image processing techniques by integrating
contributions from both optical and digital research communities to
solve current application bottlenecks, and give rise to new applications
and solutions. Besides focusing on joint research, it also aims at
disseminating the knowledge existing in both domains. Applications
covered include image restoration, medical imaging, surveillance,
holography, etc...
"a very good book that deserves to be on the bookshelf of a
serious student or scientist working in these
areas."
Source: Optics and Photonics News
Gabriel Cristobal received his Electrical Engineering degree from
Univ. Politecnica de Madrid (Spain) in 1979. Thereafter, he obtained the
PhD degree in Telecommunication Engineering at the same University in
1986. He has held several research positions at the Universidad
Politecnica de Madrid from 1982-89. G. Cristobal is currently a Research
Scientist at the Instituto de Optica (CSIC). His current research
interests are joint representations,
vision modelling, multidimensional signal processing and image quality
assessment. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
since 1996.
Peter Schelkens currently holds a professorship at the Department of
Electronics and Informatics (ETRO) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
(VUB). In addition he is member of the scientific staff of the
Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (www. IBBT. be),
Belgium and member of the board of councilors the Interuniversity
Microelectronics Institute (www. IMEC. be), Belgium. Peter Schelkens
coordinates a research team in the field of multimedia coding,
communication and security and especially enjoys cross-disciplinary
research. He has published over 200 papers in journals and conference
proceedings, standardization contributions and holds several patents. He
is also co-editor of the book, `The JPEG 2000 Suite?, published in 2009
by Wiley. His team is participating to the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 (JPEG),
WG11 (MPEG) and ITU-T standardization activities. Peter Schelkens is the
Belgian head of delegation for the ISO/IEC JPEG standardization
committee, editor/chair of part 10 of JPEG2000: ?Extensions for
Three-Dimensional Data? and PR Chair of the JPEG committee. He is member
of IEEE, SPIE, ACM and is currently the Belgian EURASIP Liaison Officer.
Hugo Thienpont is a full professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the
Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He chairs the Applied Physics and Photonics
Department and is director of its photonics research group B-Phot. Hugo
authored more than 200 SCI-stated journal papers and around 400
publications in international conference proceedings. His research work
was internationally recognized with several awards. He also built up a
track record as initiator, promoter or coordinator of many strategic
research and networking projects at the European level.
Besides academic-oriented research projects Hugo successfully manages
several large-scale micro-photonics-related industrial projects with
international companies. He is also appreciated by his peers for his
service to the photonics community. One of his major achievements is the
conception and initiation of SPIE?s flagship symposium in Europe
?Photonics Europe?. He has served as associate editor of 'Optical
Engineering' and 'Opto-Electronics Review' and was guest editor of
several special issues on "Optics in Computing" and on
"Optical Interconnects" for Applied Optics and the IEEE
Journal of Sel. Top. on Quant. Electr. He currently serves on the board
of directors of SPIE and is a member of the Board of Stakeholders of the
Technology Platform Photonics21, a high-level advisory board for optics
and photonics in Europe.
