Advances in Data and Information Sciences

Prof. Shailesh Tiwari, Ph.D. currently works as a Director, and Professor in Computer Science & Engineering Department, Krishna Engineering College, Ghaziabad, India. He is an alumnus of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India. His primary areas of research are software testing, implementation of optimization algorithms and machine learning techniques in various engineering problems. He has published more than 80 publications in International Journals and in Proceedings of International Conferences of repute. He has edited special issues of several Scopus, SCI and E-SCI-indexed journals. He has also edited several books published by Springer.  He has published 4 Indian patents as IPRs. He has organized several international conferences under the banner of IEEE, ACM and Springer. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, member of IEEE Computer Society, Fellow of Institution of Engineers (FIE). Dr. Munesh Chandra Trivedi currently working as an Associate Professor in Department of CSE, NIT Agartala, Tripura, India. He has published 20 text books and 80 research publications in different International Journals and Proceedings of International Conferences of repute. He has received Young Scientist and numerous awards from different national as well international forum. He has organized several international conferences technically sponsored by IEEE, ACM and Springer. He is on the review panel of IEEE Computer Society, International Journal of Network Security, Pattern Recognition Letter and Computer & Education (Elsevier’s Journal). He is Executive Committee Member of IEEE India Council and IEEE Asia Pacific Region 10.Prof. Mohan L. Kolhe is with the University of Agder (Norway) as full professor in electrical power engineering with focus in smart grid and renewable energy in the Faculty of Engineering and Science. He has also received the offer of full professorship in smart grid from the Norwegian University ofScience and Technology (NTNU). He has more than twenty-five years’ academic experience at international level on electrical and renewable energy systems. He is a leading renewable energy technologist and has previously held academic positions at the world's prestigious universities e.g. University College London (UK / Australia), University of Dundee (UK); University of Jyvaskyla (Finland); Hydrogen Research Institute, QC (Canada); etc. Prof. Brajesh Kumar Singh is presently working as Professor and Head in Deptt. of Computer Science and Engineering, R.B.S. Engineering Technical Campus, Agra, India with more than 20 years of teaching experience. He completed his doctorate degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad (U.P.). His key areas of research are Software Engineering, Software Project Management, Data Mining, Soft Computing and Machine Learning. He has supervised 02 Ph. D. candidates. Prof. Singh has delivered several invited talks/ key note addresses and chaired sessions in national and international conferences of high repute in India and abroad. He is having collaborative training programs/workshops with IIT Bombay. He is in the receipt of IBM best project awards.

• Chapter 1: A Review on Automatic Image Forgery Classification Using Advanced Deep Learning Techniques.- Chapter 2: Scientific Exploration of Music Recommendation System Using Facial Expressions.- Chapter 3: Live Hotspots Visualization and Degradation Analysis of Solar Photovoltaic Panels Using QR Code and Thermal Image Processing.