Dictionary Learning in Visual Computing

Qiang Zhang received his B.S. degree in electronic information and technology from Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China in 2009 and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona in 2014. Since 2014, he has been with Samsung, Pasadena, CA as a staff research scientist in computer vision and machine learning. His research interests include image/video processing, computer vision and machine vision, specialized in sparse learning, face recognition, and motion analysis.Baoxin Li received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2000. He is currently a professor of computer science and engineering and a graduate faculty in computer science, electrical engineering and computer engineering programs at Arizona State University, Tempe. From 2000 to 2004, he was a Senior Researcher with SHARP Laboratories of America, Camas, Washington, where he was a technical lead in developing SHARPs HiMPACT Sports technologies. From 2003-2004, he was also an Adjunct Professor with the Portland State University, Oregon. He holds sixteen issued U.S. patents and his current research interests include computer vision and pattern recognition, multimedia, social computing, machine learning, and assistive technologies. He won twice the SHARP Laboratories President Award, in 2001 and 2004 respectively. He also won the SHARP Laboratories Inventor of the Year Award in 2002. He was a recipient of the National Science Foundations CAREER Award.

• Acknowledgments.- Figure Credits.- Introduction.- Fundamental Computing Tasks in Sparse Representation.- Dictionary Learning Algorithms.- Applications of Dictionary Learning in Visual Computing.- An Instructive Case Study with Face Recognition.- Bibliography.- Authors' Biographies .