Traditionally, signal processing techniques lay at the foundation of multimedia data processing and analysis. In the past few years, a new wave of advanced signal-processing techniques has delivered exciting results, increasing systems capabilities of efficiently exchanging image data and extracting useful knowledge from them. This is an edited volume, written by well-recognized international researchers with extended chapter style versions of the best papers presented at the SITIS 2006 International Conference. This volume presents the state-of-the-art and recent research results on the application of advanced signal processing techniques for improving the value of image and video data. It introduces new results on video coding on time-honored topic of securing image information. The book is designed for a professional audience composed of practitioners and researchers in industry. It is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science.

Discusses feature-based techniques for deep, feature-oriented analysis of images Introduces new results on video coding on time-honored topic of securing image information Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Ernesto Damiani is a professor at the Department of Information Technology of the University of Milan. He is the Vice-Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP).

Inhalt
Image Restauration, Filtering and Compression.- On PDE-based spectrogram image restoration. Application to wolf chorus noise reduction and comparison with other algorithms.- A Modified Mean Shift Algorithm For Efficient Document Image Restoration.- An Efficient Closed Form Approach to the Evaluation of the Probability of False Alarm of the ML-CFAR Detector in a Pulse-to-Pulse Correlated Clutter.- On-orbit Spatial Resolution Estimation of CBERS-2 Imaging System Using Ideal Edge Target.- Distributed Pre-Processed CA-CFAR Detection Structure For Non Gaussian Clutter Reduction.- Multispectral Satellite Images Processing through Dimensionality Reduction.- SAR Image Compression based on Wedgelet-Wavelet.- Texture Analysis and Feature Extraction.- New approach of higher order textural parameters for image classification using statistical methods.- Texture Discrimination Using Hierarchical Complex Networks.- Error analysis of subpixel edge localisation.- Edge Point Linking by Means of Global and Local Schemes.- An Enhanced Detector of Blurred and Noisy Edges.- 3D Face Recognition using ICP and Geodesic Computation Coupled Approach.- Face Recognition and Shape Analysis.- A3FD: Accurate 3D Face Detection.- Two dimensional discrete statistical shape models construction.- A New Distorted Circle Estimator using an Active Contours Approach.- Detection of Facial Feature Points Using Anthropometric Face Model.- Intramodal Palmprint Authentication.- Multimedia Processing.- An Implementation of multiple Region-Of-Interest Models in H.264/AVC.- Rough Sets-Based Image Processing for Deinterlacing.- Intersubband Reconstruction of Lost Low Frequency Coefficients in Wavelet Coded Images.- Content-Based Watermarking by Geometric Warping and Feature-Based Image Segmentation.- Hardware Based Steganalysis.- Esophageal speech enhancement using source synthesis and formant patterns modification.- Arbitrary Image Cloning.- Iterative Joint Source-Channel Decoding with source statistics estimation: Application to image transmission.- AER Imaging.- 28.