The Information Technology (IT) and Information Technology enabled services (ITES) rules the current era. Each and every country on this planet is competing against each other to achieve mastery of this technology.
Everyone is trying to solve the problems of society through IT/ITES. With the advent of personal computers and mobile phones, technology has enabled large segments of society to have access to these services quickly and easily and all IT/ITES solutions are completely dependent on digital data being generated by these means.
There are many easy sources available to generate digital data. Easier access to personal computers, mobile phones and personal electronic gadgets has enabled every common man on the planet to create digital data at their fingertips. Usage of smart phones and other handheld devices, equipped with digital cameras have increased exponentially worldwide. This makes it easy for all to capture the digital data in the form of images and videos depicting certain events, activities, objects for future reference, evidence etc. Digital images/videos of any body part of human being, animal kingdom or for that matter any living or non-living object on this planet can be generated easily by means of cameras of different resolutions.
Increasing demand of IT/ITES has also multiplied cyber security threats, such as authentication and authorization of events, activities or users. These can be controlled by the means of Biometrics based solutions. Healthcare demands for accurate treatment can be ensured with the help of digital images captured by X-RAYS, CT SCAN, MRI, USG etc.
Country borders are being protected through digital images and videos captured by drones, and satellites used by armed forces. Almost all fields demand efficient solutions; which can be delivered through processing digital data in the form of images and videos.
Millions of images and videos are being captured every minute around the world. The future awaits image and video processing experts to interpret, analyze, and process these digital images and videos to make intelligent decisions to solve human problems efficiently. Digital images and videos are predicted to be a highly prominent type of input data to be dealt with by futuristic artificial intelligent systems that are based on machinelearning algorithms.
We, at Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and Engineering (MPSTME), Mumbai; one of the premier engineering institutions; are researching and developing expertise in the area of digital image and video processing. There are teams of image processing experts in the Faculty that are involved in training UG, PG and Doctorate students and deliver sustainable solutions for the betterment of society by the means of processing digital images and videos.
To name a few following are the areas of research being carried out by me and my students at MPSTME.
Fabric Defect detection for textile industry
Generating efficient ways of treating the spinal chord disorder.
Predicting the student’s learning levels
Efficient ways of image retrieval from large databases.
Retrieval of relevant videos from database.
This article is written byDr. Dhirendra S. Mishra, Professor, Computer Engineering Department, Faculty of Digital image and Video Processing