Advanced Image Processing for Defense and Security Applications

Advanced technologies for homeland defense and security

In recent years significant work has been undertaken by both national and local government agencies to protect critical data and infrastructures from cyber attacks. As a result, many Homeland Security solutions have been newly developed and deployed, requiring the design of new computer systems technologies, as well as techniques allowing security procedures to be executed on many different are...

A Novel Multiply-Accumulator Unit Bus Encoding Architecture for Image Processing Applications

In the CMOS circuit power dissipation is a major concern for VLSI functional units. With shrinking feature size, increased frequency and power dissipation on the data bus have become the most important factor compared to other parts of the functional units. One of the most important functional units in any processor is the Multiply-Accumulator unit (MAC). The current work focuses on the develop...

Signal Processing for Cryptography and Security Applications

Embedded devices need both an efficient and a secure implementation of cryptographic primitives. In this chapter we show how common signal processing techniques are used in order to achieve both objectives. Regarding efficiency, we first give an example of accelerating hash function primitives using the retiming transformation, a well known technique to improve signal processing applications. S...

Image Processing for Cartographic Applications

Image and Video Processing for Affective Applications

Recent advances in the research area of affective computing have broadened the range of application areas of its findings, and additionally, as the state of the art advances in affective computing, other related research areas (computer vision, pattern recognition, etc.) discover new challenges that are related to image and video processing related to the task of automatic affective analysis. A...