Pattern Recognition and Machine Vision- In Honor and Memory of Late Prof. King-Sun Fu

In recent years, there is growing interest in the fields of Pattern Recognition and Machine Vision in academia and industries. New theories are found, with new design of technology and systems, both in hardware and software. They are widely applied to our daily life to solve realistic problems, including science, engineering, agriculture, e-commerce, education, robotics, government, hospital, games and animation, medical imaging analysis and diagnosis, military, and homeland security. The foundation of all these can be traced back to late Prof. King-Sun Fu, one of the fathers of Pattern Recognition, who was visionary and founded the International Association for Pattern Recognition around 1980. Ever since then, after almost 30 years, the world has eye witnessed the rapid growth and development of this field, and most people can sense and be touched by its applications in our daily lives. Today at the eve of 25th anniversary of unfortunate and untimely passing of Prof Fu, we are proud to produce this volume of collected works by the world renowned professionals and experts in Pattern Recognition and Machine Vision, in honor and memory of the late Prof. King-Sun Fu. We hope this book will help promote further its course of not only fundamental principles, systems and technologies, but also its vast applications to help solving our daily life problems.