**Meet the editor**

Dr. Hazem El-Alfy is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alexandria, Egypt. He graduated with honors from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alexandria in 1997 and later received a Masters degree in Engineering Mathematics in 2001 from the same university. He then worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Maryland at College Park

where he earned another Masters degree in 2005 and a doctoral degree in 2009, both from the Computer Science Department. His research interests are in video processing and multi-camera management with applications in surveillance and robot path planning. He has publications in top international conferences on Robotics, Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence. Dr. El-Alfy received several awards, honors and research grants from the Faculty of Engineering at Alexandria University.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Chapter 3 **Appearance-Based Retrieval** 

Chapter 1 **Compressive Sensing in Visual Tracking 3**  Garrett Warnell and Rama Chellappa

Chapter 2 **A Construction Method for Automatic Human** 

Chapter 4 **Quality Assessment in Video Surveillance 57** 

Chapter 5 **Intelligent Surveillance System Based on Stereo** 

Nizar Fakhfakh, Louahdi Khoudour, Jean-Luc Bruyelle and El-Miloudi El-Koursi

Chapter 6 **Behavior Recognition Using any Feature** 

Shehzad Khalid

Takao Kawamura and Kazunori Sugahara

Hiroto Kakiuchi, Kozo Tanigawa,

**Tracking System with Mobile Agent Technology 17** 

**for Tracked Objects in Surveillance Videos 39**  Thi-Lan Le, Monique Thonnat and Alain Boucher

Mikołaj Leszczuk, Piotr Romaniak and Lucjan Janowski

**Vision for Level Crossings Safety Applications 75** 

**Space Representation of Motion Trajectories 101** 
