Meet the editor

Eduardo Quevedo is Assistant Professor of Biostatics and Research Methodology, Mathematics Department, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Spain. He is also a researcher at the Institute for Applied Microelectronics (IUMA) at the same university. Dr. Quevedo received his Ph.D. from ULPGC in 2015 and received the ULPGC Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award in 2016. He also holds degrees in Communica-

tions Engineering (2007) and Electronics Engineering (2009) from ULPGC. He was granted a national award for the best master's thesis from the Official National Telecommunications Engineering Association in 2008. His research interests are in the fields of image and video enhancement and their related statistics in a wide range of applications.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

Applications

**Section 3**

**Section 4**

*Baowei Fei and Gustavo Marrero Callico*

*by Amr Adel and Brian Cusack*

*by Abdullah I. Al-Shoshan*

*by Saliha Mezzoudj*

**Preface XI**

Content-Based Image Retrieval and Fusion **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 21**

Bioinformation Analysis and Processing **39**

**Chapter 3 41**

**Chapter 4 61**

Forensic Multimedia Retrieval Techniques **75**

**Chapter 5 77**

Audio and Music Classification and Separation **89**

**Chapter 6 91**

Information Extraction Techniques in Hyperspectral Imaging Biomedical

*by Appari Geetha Devi, Surya Prasada Rao Borra and Kalapala Vidya Sagar*

The Role of Penetration Testing in Forensic Multimedia Retrieval Process

*by Samuel Ortega, Martin Halicek, Himar Fabelo, Eduardo Quevedo,* 

A Hybrid Image Fusion Algorithm for Medical Applications

Classification and Separation of Audio and Music Signals

Towards Large Scale Image Retrieval System Using Parallel Frameworks

Multiple-Image Fusion Encryption (MIFE) Using Discrete Cosine Transformation (DCT) and Pseudo Random Number Generators *by Lee Mariel Heucheun Yepdia, Alain Tiedeu and Zied Lachiri*
