Contents


Preface

Currently, digital imaging is used widely in various real-life applications. There are a number of potential digital imaging applications such as television, photography, robotics, remote sensing, medical diagnosis, reconnaissance, architectural and engineering design, art, crime prevention, geographical information systems, communication, intellectual property, retail catalogs, nudity detection, face finding, industrial, and others. The increasing trends, needs, and applications of imaging make it more difficult to process images for desired objectives. This leads to the idea of capturing, storing, finding, retrieving, analyzing, and using images in everyday life in the computing environment. Being a computer-based technology, digital imaging carries out automatic processing, manipulation, and interpretation of visual information. It plays a significant and important role in various aspects of real life. It is also highly useful in many areas, disciplines, and fields of art, science,

This book is specifically dedicated to digital imaging education, research, applications, techniques, tools, and algorithms that originate from fields such as image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, signal processing, artificial intelligence, intelligent systems, and soft computing. In general, this comprehensive book contains state-of-the-art chapters focusing on the latest developments using theories, methods, approaches, algorithms, analyses, display of images, visual

The six chapters from academicians, practitioners, and researchers from different disciplines of life explore the latest developments, methods, approaches, and applications of digital imaging in a variety of fields and endeavors. The book is compiled with a view to providing researchers, academicians, and readers with an in-depth

The target audience of this book are professionals and researchers working in the field of digital imaging in various disciplines, e.g. computer science, computer engineering, information technology, information and communication sciences, education, health, libraries, and others. The book is also targeted at scientists, engineers, researchers, practitioners, academicians, and related industry professionals

Sarfraz begins the book with an introductory chapter on digital image processing which describes digital imaging is used widely in various real-life applications. This chapter is specifically dedicated to digital imaging history, methodologies, tasks,

This is followed by a chapter titled "Fast Motion Estimation's Configuration Using Diamond Pattern and ECU, CFM, and ESD Modes for Reducing HEVC Computational Complexity" by Khemiri et al., who mention that the high performance of the high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard makes it more suitable for high-definition resolutions. This encoding performance is coupled with tremendous encoding complexity, compared to the earlier H.264 (also referred to as

and provides an in-depth discussion of the latest advances.

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information, and videos.

discussion of the latest advances.

software, and applications.
