Computer Vision Challenges, Trends, and Opportunities Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer Vision Series

Computer vision has made enormous progress in recent years, and its applications are multifaceted and growing quickly, while many challenges still remain. This book brings together a range of leading researchers to examine a wide variety of challenges and prospects for computer vision and its applications.

The book highlights various core challenges, constructive criticism, and solutions by leading researchers in the field. The book covers important topics including as data-driven AI, R&D in industry perspective, biometrics, digital forensics, healthcare, robotics, entertainment and XR, autonomous driving, sports analytics, and neuromorphic computing. Providing a mix of breadth and depth, the book will have an impact across the fields of computer vision, imaging, and AI.

Computer Vision: Challenges, Trends and Opportunities covers timely and important aspects of computer vision and its applications, highlighting the challenges ahead and providing a range of perspectives, from top researchers around the world. A substantial compilation of ideas and state-of-the-art solutions, it will be of great benefit to students, researchers, and industry practitioners.

Foreword

Preface

1.Some Challenges and Solutions in Datadriven AI.

Rama Chellappa, Jiang Liu, Chun Pong Lau, Prithviraj Dhar

2.Challenges of Computer Vision Research from an Industry Perspective.

Fatih Porikli

3.Soft Biometrics for Human Identification.

Mark S. Nixon, Emad Sami Jaha

4.Exploring Causes of Demographic
Variations In Face Recognition Accuracy.

Gabriella Pangelinan, K.S. Krishnapriya, Vitor Albiero, Grace Bezold, Kai Zhang, Kushal Vangara, Michael C. King and Kevin W. Bowyer

5.AI Knows What You Did Last Summer:
Applications in Digital Forensics.

Jing Yang, Jos ́e Nascimento, Gabriel Bertocco, Antonio Theophilo, Rafael Padilha, Aurea Soriano-Vargas, Fernanda A. Andal ́o, Anderson Rocha

6.Advances in Computer Vision for HomeBased Stroke Rehabilitation.

Kowshik Thopalli, Niccolo Meniconi, Tamim Ahmed, Sai Krishna Yeshala, Aisling Kelliher, Thanassis Rikakis, Pavan Turaga

7.U-Net based Medical Image Segmentation: A Comparative Analysis and Future trends.

Sidike Paheding, Abel A. Reyes Angulo, and Mohammad S. Alam

8. Robot-Mediated Assistance: Opportunities and Challenges in Computer Vision and Human-Robot Interaction.

MD Alimoor Reza, Syed Masum Billah

9.Computer Vision Applications in Underwater Robotics and Oceanography.

Md Jahidul Islam, Alberto Quattrini Li, Yogesh A Girdhar and Ioannis Rekleitis

10.Applications of Computer Vision in Entertainment and Media Industry.

Mahmudul Hasan, Kishan Shamsundar Athrey, Arfeen Khalid, Danfeng Xie, Ehsan Younessian, Tony Braskich

11. Quality Assessment in Media and Entertainment: Challenges and Trends.

Abhinau K. Venkataramanan, Zaixi Shang, Joshua P. Ebenezer, Meixu Chen, Zhengzhong Tu and Alan C. Bovik

12. Immersive User Experiences: Trends and Challenges using XR Technologies.

Vasudev Bhaskaran and Upal Mahbub

13. Multi-camera Bird’s Eye View Perception for Autonomous Driving.

David Unger, Nikhil Gosala, Varun Ravi Kumar, Shubhankar Borse, Abhinav Valada, Senthil Yogamani

14.The (computer) vision of sports: Recent trends in research and commercial systems for sport analytics.

Rikke Gade, Michele Merler, Graham Thomas, and Thomas B. Moeslund

15. Spike-based Neuromorphic Computing for Next-Generation Computer Vision.

Md Sakib Hasan, Catherine D. Schuman†, Zhongyang Zhang, Tauhidur Rahman, and Garrett S. Rose

Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad, Ph.D., Senior Member, IEEE, Senior Member, OPTICA (formerly OSA), is a Professor of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Dhaka (DU). He is currently working as a specially appointed Associate Professor at Osaka University, Japan. He works on computer vision, imaging, IoT, healthcare, etc. He was awarded the prestigious UGC Gold Medal (handed by Honorable President of Bangladesh in 2018), JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship, and a no. of awards/scholarships. He was a Visiting Researcher at KIT. He has published over ten books and ~200 journal articles, conference papers and book chapters. He has received ~40 international awards in various conferences/journals/societies. Ahad was invited as keynote/invited speakers ~110 times in different conferences/universities. He has established several international MOU/collaborations (e.g., Clemson University, University of Hyogo, RCCIIT, Fukuoka Women University, Kyushu University, etc.).
Website: http://ahadVisionLab.com

Upal Mahbub, Ph.D., Senior Member IEEE, is currently working as a Senior Engineer at the Multimedia R&D Lab at Qualcomm Technologies Inc., San Diego, California, USA. He received his Ph.D. (2018) and an M.Sc. (2017) degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland College Park. Before joining the Ph.D. program, Dr. Mahbub was an Assistant Professor at the Dept. of EEE, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Upal Mahbub is the recipient of the best paper award at IEEE UEMCON 2016, the best poster award at BTAS 2016, the best paper award at ICCIT 2011, and a distinguished graduate fellowship from the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. He has published over thirty articles in international conferences and prestigious journals, recently published an edited book entitled “Contactless Human Activity Analysis”, served as editor in international journals (guest editor of