Text extraction is an important problem in image processing with applications from optical
character recognition to autonomous driving. Most of the traditional text segmentation …

Nowadays, distributed smart cameras are deployed for a wide set of tasks in several
application scenarios, ranging from object recognition, image retrieval, and forensic …

This paper presents a novel hierarchical approach for the simultaneous tracking of multiple
targets in a video. We use a network flow approach to link detections in low-level and …

It has been proven that humans do not focus their attention on an entire scene at once when
they perform a recognition task. Instead, they pay attention to the most important parts of the …

In this chapter, we briefly cover sparse representation classification for single modality and
its extension for multimodal data. Understanding SRC is vital for the discussions in Chapters …