New book

[Ashish Ghosh]

I am happy to announce the publication of the following book:
"Soft Computing for Image Processing" by Sankar K. Pal, Ashish Ghosh and
Malay K. Kundu (Eds.) from Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, New York. The
book is available at
http://www.springer.de/cgi-bin/search_book.pl?isbn=3-7908-1268-4

Thanks,

Ashish Ghosh


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Soft Computing for Image Processing 

Pal, S.K., Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India
Ghosh, A., Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India
Kundu, M.K., Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India
(Eds.) 

2000. XVIII, 590 pp. 309 figs., 73 tabs. 

The volume provides a collection of 21 articles containing new
material and describing, in a unified way with extensive real life
applications, the merits and significance of performing different
image processing/analysis tasks in soft computing paradigm. The
articles, written by leading experts all over the world, demonstrate
the various ways the fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks, genetic
algorithms and fractals can be used independently and in integrated
manner to provide efficient and flexible information processing
capabilities in a stronger computational paradigm for handling the
tasks like filtering, edge detection, segmentation, compression ,
classification, motion estimation, character regognition and target
identification. Application domain includes, among others, data
mining, computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning,
information technology, remote sensing, forensic investigation, video
abstraction and knowledge based systems.

Keywords: Image Processing, Image Analysis, Soft Computing 

Contents: S.K. Pal, A. Ghosh, M.K. Kundu: Soft Computing and Image
Analysis: Features, Relevance and Hybridization.- Preprocessing and
Feature Extraction: F.Russo: Image Filtering Using Evolutionary Neural
Fuzzy Systems.- T. Law, D. Shibata, T. Nakamura, L. He, H.  Itoh: Edge
Extraction Using Fuzzy Reasoning.- S.K. Mitra, C.A. Murthy,
M.K. Kundu: Image Compression and Edge Extraction Using Fractal
Technique and Genetic Algorithms.- S. Mitra, R.  Castellanos,
S.-Y. Yang, S. Pemmaraju: Adaptive Clustering for Efficient
Segmentation and Vector Quantization of Images.- B. Uma Shankar,
A. Ghosh, S.K. Pal: On Fuzzy Thresholding of Remotely Sensed Images.-
W. Skarbek: Image Compression Using Pixel Neural Networks.- L He,
Y. Chao, T. Nakamura, H. Itho: Genetic Algorithm and Fuzzy Reasoning
for Digital Image Compression Using Triangular Plane Patches.- N
B. Karayiannis, T.C. Wang: Compression of Digital Mammograms Using
Wavelets and Fuzzy Algorithms for Learning Vector Quantization.-
V.D. Ges: Soft Computing and Image Analysis.- J.H. Han, T.Y. Kim,
L.T. Kczy: Fuzzy Interpretation of Image Data.- Classification:
M. Grabisch: New Pattern Recognition Tools Based on Fuzzy Logic for
Image Understanding.- N.K. Kasabov, S.I. Israel, B.J. Woodford:
Adaptive, Evolving, Hybrid Connectionist Systems for Image Pattern
Recognition.- P.A.  Stadter, N.K Bose: Neuro-Fuzzy Computing:
Structure, Performance Measure and Applications.- K. D. Bollacker,
J. Ghosh: Knowledge Reuse Mechanisms for Categorizing Related Image
Sets.- K. C. Gowda, P. Nagabhushan, H.N. Srikanta Prakash: Symbolic
Data Analysis for Image Processing.- Applications: N.M. Nasrabadi,
S. De, L.-C. Wang, S. Rizvi, A.  Chan: The Use of Artificial Neural
Networks for Automatic Target Recognition.- S. Gutta, H.  Wechsler:
Hybrid Systems for Facial Analysis and Processing Tasks.- V. Susheela
Devi, M.  Narasimha Murty: Handwritten Digit Recognition Using Soft
Computing Tools.- T.L.  Huntsburger, J.R. Rose, D. Girard: Neural
Systems for Motion Analysis: Single Neuron and Network Approaches.-
H.M. Kim, B. Kosko: Motion Estimation and Compensation with Neural
Fuzzy Systems.

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