Handbook of Image and Video Processing

Claude Oestges received a PhD degree in Applied Science from the Universit� catholique de Louvain (UCL, Belgium), in 2000. In 2001, he joined the Smart Antennas Research Group at Stanford University (California, USA) as a post-doctoral scholar. Since 2005 he has been a Research Associate of the Belgian National Science Foundation and a part-time Associate Professor at UCL. His research interests cover wireless and satellite communications, with a specific focus on the propagation channel and its impact on system performance. Claude Oestges is the author or co-author of more than 60 papers in IEEE/IEE journals and conference proceedings. He was a member of the IEEE 802.11 Standardization…  More Working Group on Multiple antenna channel modeling. He received the IEE Marconi Premium Award in 2001 and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2004 Neal Shepherd Award. Al Bovik is the General Dynamics Endowed Fellow and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is the Associate Director of the Center for Vision and Image Sciences. He has published nearly 300 techincal articles in the general area of image and video processing and holds two U.S. patents. Dr. Bovik is a recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award (1998), and is a two-time Honorable Mention winner of the international Pattern Recognition Society Award. He is a fellow of the IEEE, is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, serves on many other boards and panels, and was the Founding General Chairman of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, which was first held in Austin, Texas in 1994. Keith Jack is Director of Product Marketing at Sigma Designs. Sigma Designs develops and markets high-performance, highly-integrated System-on-a-Chip (SoC) semiconductors for IPTV Set-top Boxes, Blu-ray and HD DVD Players/Recorders, HDTVs, Digital Media Adapters, and Portable Media Players. Prior to joining Sigma Designs, Mr. Jack held various marketing and chip design positions at Harris Semiconductor, Brooktree, and Rockwell International. He has been involved in over 40 multimedia chips for the consumer market. Mike Tooley is a technical author and consultant. He was formerly Vice Principal at Brooklands College in Surrey, England, where he was responsible for the delivery of learning to over 10,000 Further and Higher Education students increasingly by flexible, open and on-line distance learning. Mike is the well-known author of several popular engineering and related text books, including widely adopted course texts for BTEC, GCE A-level and GCSE qualifications in Engineering. Mike's hobbies include astronomy, amateur radio, aviation, computing and electronic circuit design and construction.  Less