About the Author

Professor E.R. Davies graduated from Oxford University in 1963 with a First Class Honours degree in Physics. After 12 years research in solid state physics, he became interested in vision and is currently professor of machine vision at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has worked on image filtering, shape analysis, edge detection, Hough transforms, robust pattern matching, and artificial neural networks and is involved in algorithm design for inspection, surveillance, real-time vision, and a number of industrial applications. He has published over 180 papers and two books—Electronics, Noise and Signal Recovery (1993), and Image Processing for the Food Industry (2000)—as well as the present volume. Professor Davies is on the Editorial Boards of Real-Time Imaging, Pattern Recognition Letters and Imaging Science. He holds a DSc at the University of London and is a Fellow of the institute of Physics (UK) and the institution of Electrical Engineering (USA), and a Senior Member of the institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (USA). He is on the Executive Committees of the British Machine Vision Association and the IEE Visual information Engineering Professional Network.