"This book focuses on seven commonly used image analysis techniques. It covers aspects from basic principles, practical methods, to new advancement of each selected technique to help readers solve image processing related problems in real-life situation. The selected techniques include image segmentation, segmentation evaluation and comparison, saliency object detection, motion analysis, mathematical morphology methods, face recognition and expression classification. The author offers readers a three-step strategy toward problem solving: first, essential principles, then, a detailed explanation, and finally, a discussion on practical and working techniques for specific tasks. He also encourages readers to make full use of available materials from the latest development and trends. This is an excellent book for those who do not have a complete foundation in the image technology but need to use image analysis techniques to solve specific tasks in particular applications"--.