Shengrong Gong received his M.S. degree from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1993, and his Ph.D degree from Beihang University in 2001. He is the dean of School of Computer Science and Engineering, Changshu Institute of Science and Technology, and also a professor and doctoral supervisor. His research interests are image and video processing, pattern recognition, and computer vision.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to advanced methods for image and video analysis and processing. It covers deraining, dehazing, inpainting, fusion, watermarking and stitching. It describes techniques for face and lip recognition,  facial expression recognition, lip reading in videos, moving object tracking, dynamic scene classification, among others.

The book combines the latest machine learning methods with computer vision applications, covering topics such as event recognition based on deep learning dynamic scene classification based on topic model, person re-identification based on metric learning and behavior analysis. It also offers a systematic introduction to image evaluation criteria showing how to use them in different experimental contexts.

The book offers an example-based practical guide to researchers, professionals and graduate students dealing with advanced problems in image analysis and computer vision.