A series of handbooks, textbooks, and references on the subject of digital imaging, computer vision, image / video processing and analysis, computational photography, pattern recognition, machine learning, visual communication, computer graphics, and multimedia, has been introduced by CRC Press / Taylor & Francis. The series has been founded and named by its editor, Dr. Rastislav Lukac, as a Digital Imaging and Computer Vision book series. Works intended to be published in this series should be directed to an audience of scholars and research scientists in academia and industry, as well as students and libraries at the senior undergraduate, graduate, and profession level.