Vuong Le

This special compendium provides a concise and unified vision of facial image processing. It addresses a collection of state-of-the-art techniques, covering the most important areas for facial biometrics and behavior analysis. These techniques also converge to serve an emerging practical application of interactive distance learning.Readers will get a broad picture of the fundamental science of the field and technical details that make the research interesting. Moreover, the intellectual investigation motivated by the demand of real-life application will make this volume an inspiring read for current and prospective researchers and engineers in the fields of computer vision, machine learning and image processing.