Face recognition is one of the most active research fields of computer vision and pattern
recognition, with many practical and commercial applications including identification, access …

Microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi play essential roles in many application fields,
like biotechnique, medical technique and industrial domain. Microorganism counting …

Digital pathology and microscopy image analysis is widely used for comprehensive studies
of cell morphology or tissue structure. Manual assessment is labor intensive and prone to …

Summary 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes for eubacteria (EUB338), ammonium-
oxidizing bacteria (Nsm156) and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (Nb1000) were used for the rapid …

Partial differential equations (PDEs) have led to an entire new field in image processing and
computer vision. Hundreds of publications have appeared in the last decade, and PDE …

Computer and Machine Vision: Theory, Algorithms, Practicalities (previously entitled
Machine Vision) clearly and systematically presents the basic methodology of computer and …

Human face detection plays an important role in applications such as video surveillance,
human computer interface, face recognition, and face image database management. We …

To improve the performance of top-hat transformation for infrared dim small target detection
in a simple and effective way, the definition, properties, multi-scale operations of new top-hat …

1. The wavelet transform; 1.1 Multiscale methods; 1.2 The continuous wavelet transform; 1.3
Examples of wavelet functions; 1.4 The discrete wavelet transform/1.5 Multiresolution based …

We present an overview of various edge and line oriented approaches to contour detection
that have been proposed in the last two decades. By edge and line oriented we mean …