Advances in Communication, Signal & Image Processing

This book presents recent applications and developments in the field of communication, signal and image processing, covering a wide range of applications for monitoring, treatment and assistance. This book provides insights into the theory, applications and perspectives relevant to the field of Communication, Signal and Image Processing, as well as the general paradigms and methodologies behind them. Each chapter provides an enriched understanding of a research topic along with a balanced treatment of the relevant theories, methods or applications. It reports on the latest advances in the field. This book is a good reference for graduate students, researchers, educators, engineers and scientists and contains more than 10 chapters divided into four parts as follows. The first part of this book focuses on communication and networking systems. It consists of four chapters. The second part is dedicated to video and signal processing and consists of two chapters. The third part deals with research in image processing and comprises four chapters. The fourth part describes various approaches applied to medical images and comprises four chapters.

Nabil Derbel was born in Sfax (Tunisia) in April 1962. He received his engineering Diploma from the Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Sfax in 1986, the Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies in Automatic control from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse in 1986, the Doctorat d’Université degree from the Laboratoire d’Automatique et d’Analyse des Systèmes de Toulouse in 1989, and the Doctorat d’Etat degree from the Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis. He joined the Tunisian University in 1989, where he held different position involved in research and education. Currently, he is Full Professor (First Class) of Automatic Control at the Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Sfax. His current interests include: Optimal Control, Complex Systems, Robotic Systems, Power Systems.

Quanmin Zhu is Professor in control systems at the School of Engineering, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. He obtained his M.Sc. in Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 1983, Ph.D. in Faculty of Engineering, University of Warwick, UK, in 1989, and worked as Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of automatic control and systems engineering, University of Sheffield, UK, between 1989 and 2994. His main research interest is in nonlinear system modelling, identification, and control. He has published over 300 papers on these topics, edited various books with Springer, Elsevier, and the other publishers and provided consultancy to various industries. Currently, Professor Zhu is acting as Editor of Elsevier book series of Emerging Methodologies and Applications in Modelling, Identification and Control.