Digital Geometry in Image Processing

Jayanta Mukhopadhyay is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, where he is currently head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the School of Information and Technology. Dr. Mukhopadhyay was a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Technical University of Munich and has held visiting positions at the University of California-Santa Barbara, University of Southern California, and the National University of Singapore. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE). His research interests include image processing, pattern recognition, computer graphics, multimedia systems, and medical informatics. He has published more than 170 journal articles and conference proceedings in these areas. He received his B.Tech., M.Tech., and Ph.D. in electronics and electrical communication engineering from IIT Kharagpur.

Partha Pratim Das is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. He is also a visiting professor in the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics at Calcutta University. Dr. Das is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the VLSI Society of India and a reviewer for ACM Computing Surveys and Pattern Recognition Letters. He has published over 40 technical papers in digital geometry, image processing, parallel computing, and knowledge-based systems and has co-authored a book Digital Geometry in Image Processing. His research interests include object tracking and interpretation in videos, medical information processing, and debugging automation for multi-threaded programs. He obtained his B.Tech., M.Tech., and Ph.D. in electronics and electrical communication from IIT Kharagpur.

Samiran Chattopadhyay is a professor in the Department of Information Technology at Jadavpur Univers