Intelligent Image and Video Analytics: Clustering and Classification Applications
暫譯: 智能影像與視頻分析：聚類與分類應用

視頻包含豐富的信息，包括元數據、視覺、音頻、空間和時間數據，這些數據可以被分析以提取各種低層次和高層次的特徵，利用機器學習算法建立預測計算模型，以發現有趣的模式、概念、關係和聯繫。本書包括對基本主題的回顧，以及對視頻數據挖掘和分析的新興方法及潛在應用的討論。它整合了智能系統、數據挖掘和知識發現、大數據分析、機器學習、神經網絡和深度學習等領域，重點關注多模態視頻分析及其在研究/應用中的最新進展。

特點：
- 提供有關智能視頻分析的最新技術的前沿覆蓋。
- 探索需要人工智慧和計算機視覺技術的重要應用。
- 描述不同應用的多模態視頻分析。
- 檢視與多模態數據融合相關的問題，並突顯研究挑戰。
- 整合來自視頻處理、數據挖掘和機器學習的各種技術，這些技術在智能環境、智能家居和智慧城市中有許多新興的室內和室外應用。

本書旨在為圖像處理、視頻分析、計算機科學與工程、信號處理、機器學習和電氣工程的研究人員、專業人士和研究生提供參考。

El-Sayed M. El-Alfy is currently a Professor with the Information and Computer Science Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia. He is also affiliated with the University Interdisciplinary Research Center for Intelligent Secure Systems (IRC-ISS). He has over 25 years of experience in industry and academia, involving research, teaching, supervision, curriculum design, program assessment, and quality assurance in higher education. He is an approved ABET/CSAB Program Evaluator (PEV), and a Reviewer and a Consultant for NCAAA and several universities and research agents in various countries. He is an active Researcher with interests in fields related to machine learning and nature inspired computing and applications to data science and cybersecurity analytics, pattern recognition, multimedia forensics, and security systems. He has published numerously in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, edited a number of books published by reputable international publishers, attended and contributed in the organization of many world-class international conferences, and supervised master and Ph.D. students. He is a senior member of IEEE and was also a member of ACM, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Communication Society, and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. His work has been internationally recognized and received a number of awards. He has served as a Guest Editor for a number of special issues in international journals, and been on the editorial board of a number of premium international journals.

George Bebis received the B.S. degree in mathematics and the M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Crete, Crete, Greece, in 1987 and 1991, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA, in 1996. He is currently a Foundation Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), Reno, NV, USA, and the Director of the Computer Vision Laboratory. From 2013 to 2018, he served as a Department Chair of CSE, UNR. His research has been funded by NSF, NASA, ONR, NIJ, and Ford Motor Company. His research interests include computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, machine learning, and evolutionary computing. Dr. Bebis is an Associate Editor of the Machine Vision and Applications Journal and serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, the Pattern Analysis and Applications, and the Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging and Visualization. He has served on the program committees of various national and international conferences and the Founder/main Organizer of the International Symposium on Visual Computing.

MengChu Zhou received his B.S. degree in Control Engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China in 1983, M.S. degree in Automatic Control from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China in 1986, and Ph. D. degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in 1990. He joined New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ in 1990, and is now a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in Petri nets, intelligent automation, Internet of Things, big data, web services, and intelligent transportation. He has over 900 publications including 12 books, 600+ journal papers (500+ in IEEE TRANSACTIONS), 29 patents and 29 book-chapters. He is the founding Editor of IEEE Press Book Series on Systems Science and Engineering and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. He is a recipient of Humboldt Research Award for US Senior Scientists from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Franklin V. Taylor Memorial Award and the Norbert Wiener Award from IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society. He is founding Chair/Co-chair of Enterprise Information Systems Technical Committee (TC), Environmental Sensing, Networking, and Decision-making TC and AI-based Smart Manufacturing Systems TC of IEEE SMC Society. He has been among most highly cited scholars for years and ranked top one in the field of engineering worldwide in 2012 by Web of Science/Thomson Reuters and now Clarivate Analytics. He is a life member of Chinese Association for Science and Technology-USA and served as its President in 1999. He is a Fellow of International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) and National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

El-Sayed M. El-Alfy 目前是沙烏地阿拉伯法赫德石油與礦業大學（KFUPM）資訊與計算機科學系的教授。他同時也與大學跨學科研究中心智能安全系統（IRC-ISS）有關聯。他在產業和學術界擁有超過25年的經驗，涉及研究、教學、指導、課程設計、計畫評估及高等教育的品質保證。他是經認可的ABET/CSAB計畫評估員（PEV），並擔任NCAAA及多所大學和研究機構的審稿人和顧問。他是一位活躍的研究者，對機器學習和自然啟發計算及其在數據科學和網絡安全分析、模式識別、多媒體取證和安全系統等領域的應用感興趣。他在同行評審的國際期刊和會議上發表了大量論文，編輯了多本由知名國際出版社出版的書籍，參加並貢獻於多場世界級國際會議的組織，並指導碩士和博士生。他是IEEE的資深會員，曾是ACM、IEEE計算智能學會、IEEE計算機學會、IEEE通信學會和IEEE車輛技術學會的成員。他的工作在國際上獲得認可並獲得多項獎項。他曾擔任多個國際期刊特刊的客座編輯，並在多本高端國際期刊的編輯委員會中任職。

喬治·貝比斯（George Bebis）於1987年和1991年分別在希臘克里特大學獲得數學學士學位和計算機科學碩士學位，並於1996年在美國佛羅里達中央大學獲得電氣與計算機工程博士學位。他目前是美國內華達大學雷諾分校（UNR）計算機科學與工程系的創始教授，並擔任計算機視覺實驗室的主任。從2013年到2018年，他擔任UNR計算機科學與工程系的系主任。他的研究得到了NSF、NASA、ONR、NIJ和福特汽車公司的資助。他的研究興趣包括計算機視覺、圖像處理、模式識別、機器學習和進化計算。貝比斯博士是《機器視覺與應用期刊》的副編輯，並在《國際人工智慧工具期刊》、《模式分析與應用期刊》和《生物力學與生物醫學工程中的計算方法：成像與可視化》的編輯委員會中任職。他曾在各種國內外會議的程序委員會中任職，並是國際視覺計算研討會的創始人/主要組織者。

周孟初（MengChu Zhou）於1983年在中國南京科技大學獲得控制工程學士學位，1986年在北京理工大學獲得自動控制碩士學位，1990年在美國倫斯勒理工學院獲得計算機與系統工程博士學位。他於1990年加入新澤西理工學院（NJIT），目前是電氣與計算機工程的傑出教授。他的研究興趣包括彼得里網、智能自動化、物聯網、大數據、網絡服務和智能交通。他擁有超過900篇出版物，包括12本書、600多篇期刊論文（500多篇發表於IEEE TRANSACTIONS）、29項專利和29章書籍。他是IEEE Press系統科學與工程書系的創始編輯，以及IEEE/CAA自動化學報的主編。他是亞歷山大·馮·洪堡基金會頒發的美國高級科學家洪堡研究獎、富蘭克林·V·泰勒紀念獎和IEEE系統、人類與控制論學會的諾伯特·維納獎的獲得者。他是IEEE SMC學會企業信息系統技術委員會（TC）、環境感知、網絡和決策制定TC及基於AI的智能製造系統TC的創始主席/聯合主席。他多年來一直是被引用最多的學者之一，並於2012年被Web of Science/Thomson Reuters及現在的Clarivate Analytics評選為全球工程領域的第一名。他是美國科學技術協會的終身會員，並於1999年擔任其會長。他是國際自動控制聯合會（IFAC）、美國科學促進協會（AAAS）、中國自動化學會（CAA）和國家發明家學院（NAI）的會士。