This leading edge text presents a collection of papers on various topics related to image and video processing. Both topics hold great relevance for the image processing community, and video processing technologies are of particular interest to the multimedia and aerospace industries.

• Authoritative and up-to-date of this rapidly evolving topic.
• Contributors are all renowned researchers in the field.
• Provides new techniques and analyses for problem solving in technology critical applications related to image and video processing.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Optimal boolean, stack and morphological filtering
• Image processing using rational functions
• Mathematical morphology and motion picture restoration
• Adaptive order statistics filtering
• Automatic and interactive segmentation of video sequences
• Invariant features for discriminating between equivalence classes
• Image models for facial feature tracking