Intelligent Analysis of Multimedia Information

"This book is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on the implementation of innovative techniques to a broad spectrum of multimedia applications by presenting emerging methods in continuous media processing and manipulation"--

Siddhartha Bhattacharyya did his Bachelors in Physics, Bachelors in Optics and Optoelectronics and Masters in Optics and Optoelectronics from University of Calcutta, India in 1995, 1998 and 2000 respectively. He completed PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India in 2008. He is the recipient of the University Gold Medal from the University of Calcutta for his Masters. He is currently the Professor and Head of Information Technology of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. In addition, he is serving as the Dean of Research and Development of the institute from November 2013. He is the Associate Editor of International Journal of Pattern Recognition Research. He is the member of the editorial board of International Journal of Engineering, Science and Technology and ACCENTS Transactions on Information Security (ATIS). He is also the member of the editorial advisory board of HETC Journal of Computer Engineering and Applications. He is the Associate Editor of the International Journal of BioInfo Soft Computing since 2013.

Hrishikesh Bhaumik is currently serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Technology at RCCIIT. Hrishikesh did his BSc. from Calcutta University in 1997, AMIE in Electronics and Comm. Engg in 2000 and M.Tech in Information Technology from BE College, Shibpur in 2004. He is with RCCIIT for more than thirteen years. Prior to joining RCCIIT he has worked with the Instrumentation Division of Lawrence & Mayo at Mumbai and Nasan Medical Instruments at Pune. He received several sponsorships from ICTP, Italy and acted as a major contributor to the EUIndia Grid project during 2010 to 2012. His research interests include Content Based Video Retrieval Systems, Text Mining and High Performance Computing.

Sourav De did his Bachelors in Information Technology from The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India in 2002. He did his Masters in Information Technology from West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India in 2005. He completed PhD in Computer Science and Technology from Indian Institute of Engineering & Technology, Shibpur, Howrah, India in 2015. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology of University Institute of Technology, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India since 2006. He served as a Junior Programmer in Apices Consultancy Private Limited, Kolkata, India in 2005. He has more than about 20 research publications in internationally reputed journals, international edited books and international IEEE conferences. His research interests include soft computing, pattern recognition, image processing and data mining. Dr. De is a member of IEEE, ACM, Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and IAENG, Hong Kong. He is a life member of ISTE, India.

Goran Klepac, PhD, University College Professor, works as a head of Strategic unit in Sector of credit risk in Raiffeisenbank Austria d.d., Croatia, Europe. In several universities in Croatia, he lectures subjects in domain of data mining, predictive analytics, decision support system, banking risk, risk evaluation models, expert system, database marketing and business intelligence. As a team leader, he successfully finished many data mining projects in different domains like retail, finance, insurance, hospitality, telecommunications, and productions. He is an author/coauthor of several books published in Croatian and English in domain of data mining. www.goranklepac.com