Contextual Analysis of Videos / Synthesis Lectures on Image, Video, and Multimedia Processing (PDF)

water.Dr. Dorothy Monekosso (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor in Medical Electronics and Robotics at the University of The West of England, UK, Head of Electronics and Computing and Research Lead at the Bath Institute of Medical Engineering (BIME), UK. Her research interests include intelligent environments and robotics. Dr. Monekosso is the author of over peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals and conferences and is guest-editor of book collections, published by Springer-Verlag, in the field of ambient intelligence and Intelligent Paradigms in Security. She is a guest editor on special issues of the IEEE Transactions of Automation, Science and Engineering on ""Automation and Engineering from Ambient Intelligence"" 2009 and the Journal of Information Fusion (2013). Dr. Monekosso is a member of the following editorial boards; the International Journal of Robotics and Automation (IJRA), the International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems (IJAIS), and International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP). She has served on a number of conference organizing and programme committees. Her interests include intelligent systems, ambient assisted living, and robotics.Professor Paolo Remagnino is an expert in image and video understanding. He has worked as a researcher at INRIA, Grenoble, and the University of Reading. Since 1998, he has been with Kingston University where he leads the Robot Vision Team (RoViT). His research interests are in image and video understanding, pattern recognition, machine and manifold learning. Prof. Remagnino has published more than 120 papers in international journals and conferences. He has served as associate editor for the IEEE Transactions of Systems, Man and Cybernetics, part A, IEEE Transactions of Automation, Science and Engineering, the Elsevier Image and Vision Computing and Neurocomputing. Prof. Remagnino is a member of the UK EPSRC college and has served as evaluator for British and European funding research bodies. Professor Remagnino is currently principal investigator of four grants on the intelligent monitoring of public and private spaces, funded by the EU FP7 programme (PROACTIVE, CARING4U and BREATHE) and a project on advanced video surveillance funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Prof. Remagnino has an active collaboration on classification of plants and he is associate researcher with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.