Handbook on Soft Computing for Video Surveillance (PDF)

Sankar K. Pal is a distinguished scientist and former director of the Indian Statistical Institute. He is a J.C. Bose Fellow of the government of India and a fellow of IEEE, TWAS, IAPR, and IFSA. Dr. Pal has authored more than 400 research publications and has been a recipient of the S.S. Bhatnagar Prize of India. His research interests include pattern recognition and machine learning, image processing, data mining and web intelligence, soft computing, neural nets, genetic algorithms, fuzzy and rough sets, and bioinformatics.

Alfredo Petrosino is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Naples Parthenope. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of IAPR and INNS. Mr. Petrosino has authored more than 100 research publications and has been a recipient of the Academic Price for Cybernetics from the Italian Academy of Science, Arts, and Literature. His research interests include computer vision, image and video analysis, pattern recognition, neural networks, fuzzy and rough sets, and data mining.

Lucia Maddalena is a researcher at the Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking of the National Research Council of Italy. Dr. Maddalena is a member of IEEE and IAPR and an associate editor of the International Journal of Biomedical Data Mining. Her research interests include image processing and multimedia systems in high-performance computational environments.