This book
provides readers with a selection of high-quality chapters that cover both
theoretical concepts and practical applications of image feature detectors and
descriptors. It serves as reference for researchers and practitioners by
featuring survey chapters and research contributions on image feature detectors
and descriptors. Additionally, it emphasizes several keywords in both
theoretical and practical aspects of image feature extraction. The keywords
include acceleration of feature detection and extraction, hardware
implantations, image segmentation, evolutionary algorithm, ordinal measures, as
well as visual speech recognition.