New Trends in Computational Vision and Bio-inspired Computing Selected works presented at the ICCVBIC 2018, Coimbatore, India

This volume gathers selected, peer-reviewed original contributions presented at the International Conference on Computational Vision and Bio-inspired Computing (ICCVBIC) conference which was held in Coimbatore, India, on November 29-30, 2018. The works included here offer a rich and diverse sampling of recent developments in the fields of Computational Vision, Fuzzy, Image Processing and Bio-inspired Computing. The topics covered include computer vision; cryptography and digital privacy; machine learning and artificial neural networks; genetic algorithms and computational intelligence; the Internet of Things; and biometric systems, to name but a few. The applications discussed range from security, healthcare and epidemic control to urban computing, agriculture and robotics.

In this book, researchers, graduate students and professionals will find innovative solutions to real-world problems in industry and society as a whole, together with inspirations for further research.

Dr. S. Smys received his M.E and Ph.D degrees all in Wireless Communication and Networking from Anna University and Karunya University, India. His main area of research activity is localization and routing architecture in wireless networks. He serves as Associate Editor of Computers and Electrical Engineering (C&EE) Journal, Elsevier and Guest Editor of MONET Journal, Springer. He is served as a reviewer for IET, Springer, Inderscience and Elsevier journals. He has published many research articles in refereed journals and IEEE conferences. He has been the General chair, Session Chair, TPC Chair and Panelist in several conferences. He is member of IEEE and senior member of IACSIT wireless research group. He has been serving as Organizing Chair and Program Chair of several International conferences, and in the Program Committees of several International conferences. Currently he is working as a professor in the Department of Computer Science at RVS Technical Campus, Coimbatore, India.

Abdullah M. Iliyasu (aka Abdul M. Elias) received the M.E., Ph.D., and Dr. Eng. degrees in computational intelligence and intelligent systems engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, where he is presently a Research Professor with the School of Computing. Concurrently, Prof Elias is the Principal Investigator and Team Leader of the Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems (CIIS) Research Group at the College of Engineering, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He is also a Professor with the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, China. He has to his credit more than 100 publications traversing the areas of computational intelligence, quantum cybernetics, quantum image processing, quantum machine learning, cyber and information security, hybrid intelligent systems, health informatics, and electronics systems reliability.

Dr. Robert Bestak obtained a PhD degree in Computer Science from ENST Paris, France (2003) and MSc degree in Telecommunications from Czech Technical University in Prague, CTU, (1999). Since 2004, he has been an Assistant Professor at Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, CTU. His main research interests include 5G networks, cognitive networks and spectrum management. He is the Czech representative in the IFIP TC6 working group and he serves as associate editor of Telecommunication System and Electronic Commerce Research, Springer and . Dr. Bestak has served as Steering and Technical Program Committees member for numerous IEEE/IFIP international conferences. He participated in several national and EU founded research projects (FP7-ROCKET, FP7-TROPIC, etc.)

Dr. Fuqian Shi currently working as a Professor in Wenzhou Medical University, P. R. China. His research interest includes Computer Networks, Computer Programming, Computer Graphics, Image Processing, Data Structure, Operating System and Medical Informatics.