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This Special Issue “Atmospheric Conditions for Wind Energy Applications” hosts papers on aspects of remote sensing for atmospheric conditions for wind energy applications. Wind lidar technology is presented from a theoretical view on the coherent focused Doppler lidar principles. Furthermore, wind lidar for applied use for wind turbine control, wind farm wake, and gust characterizations is presented, as well as methods to reduce uncertainty when using lidar in complex terrain. Wind lidar observations are used to validate numerical model results. Wind Doppler lidar mounted on aircraft used for observing winds in hurricane conditions and Doppler radar on the ground used for very short-term wind forecasting are presented. For the offshore environment, floating lidar data processing is presented as well as an experiment with wind-profiling lidar on a ferry for model validation. Assessments of wind resources in the coastal zone using wind-profiling lidar and global wind maps using satellite data are presented..

complex flow --- Floating Lidar System (FLS) --- mesoscale --- wind energy resources --- variational analysis --- wind turbine --- wind sensing --- wind energy --- wind gusts --- wake --- wind structure --- complex terrain --- global ocean --- remote sensing forecasting --- detached eddy simulation --- five-minute ahead wind power forecasting --- tropical cyclones --- fetch effect --- aerosol --- vertical Light Detection and Ranging --- range gate length --- resource assessment --- field experiments --- remote sensing --- optical flow --- turbulence --- atmospheric boundary layer --- Doppler Wind Lidar --- offshore --- empirical equation --- Lidar --- WindSAT --- coastal wind measurement --- offshore wind speed forecasting --- Doppler wind lidar --- Doppler --- wind --- wind lidar --- cross-correlation --- QuikSCAT --- wind resource assessment --- detecting and tracking --- single-particle --- gust prediction --- NWP model --- velocity-azimuth-display algorithm --- lidar-assisted control (LAC) --- Doppler lidar --- motion estimation --- power performance testing --- lidar --- large-eddy simulations --- wind farm --- coherent Doppler lidar --- wake modeling --- probabilistic forecasting --- control --- NeoWins --- wind turbine controls --- impact prediction --- wind turbine wake --- Hazaki Oceanographical Research Station --- VAD --- virtual lidar --- Doppler radar --- IEA Wind Task 32 --- ASCAT --- wind atlas --- turbulence intensity

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In the last decade, we have witnessed the rapid development of electronic technologies that are transforming our daily lives. Such technologies are often integrated with various sensors that facilitate the collection of human motion and physiological data and are equipped with wireless communication modules such as Bluetooth, radio frequency identification, and near-field communication. In smart healthcare applications, designing ergonomic and intuitive human–computer interfaces is crucial because a system that is not easy to use will create a huge obstacle to adoption and may significantly reduce the efficacy of the solution. Signal and data processing is another important consideration in smart healthcare applications because it must ensure high accuracy with a high level of confidence in order for the applications to be useful for clinicians in making diagnosis and treatment decisions. This Special Issue is a collection of 10 articles selected from a total of 26 contributions. These contributions span the areas of signal processing and smart healthcare systems mostly contributed by authors from Europe, including Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, and Netherlands. Authors from China, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Ecuador are also included.

smart homes --- Internet of Things (IoT) --- Wi-Fi --- human monitoring --- behavioral analysis --- ambient assisted living --- intelligent luminaires --- wireless sensor network --- indoor localisation --- indoor monitoring --- Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) --- CUDA --- OpenMP --- OpenCL --- K-means --- brain cancer detection --- hyperspectral imaging --- unsupervised clustering --- impaired sensor --- Structural Health Monitoring --- Time of Flight --- subharmonics --- Cascaded-Integrator-Comb (CIC) filter --- FPGA --- fixed point math --- data adaptive demodulator --- motion estimation --- inertial sensors --- simulation --- spline function --- Kalman filter --- eHealth --- software engineering --- gesture recognition --- Dynamic Time Warping --- Hidden Markov Model --- usability --- Cramér–Rao lower bound (CRLB) --- human motion --- Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) --- Time of Arrival (TOA) --- wearable sensors --- endothelial dysfunction --- photoplethysmography --- machine learning --- computer-assisted screening --- sleep pose recognition --- keypoints feature matching --- Bayesian inference --- near-infrared images --- scale invariant feature transform --- heartbeat classification --- arrhythmia --- denoising autoencoder --- autoencoder --- deep learning --- auditory perception --- biometrics --- computer vision --- web control access --- web security --- human–computer interaction --- n/a --- Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB) --- human-computer interaction

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This book focuses on the intelligent processing of images and optical information acquired by various imaging methods. Intelligent image and optical information processing have paved the way for the recent epoch of new intelligence and information era. Certainly, information acquired by various imaging techniques is of tremendous value; thus, an intelligent analysis of them is necessary to make the best use of it. A broad range of research fields is included in this book. Many studies focus on object classification and detection. Registration, segmentation, and fusion are performed between a series of images. Many valuable and up-to-most recent technologies are provided to solve the real problems in selected papers.

History of engineering & technology --- change detection --- NSCT --- variogram function --- structure similarity --- Dongting Lake --- ego-motion estimation --- hand-eye calibration --- IMU --- lidar odometry --- sensor fusion --- texture classification --- Gabor filter --- parameter optimization --- feature selection --- hybrid ant lion optimizer --- wireless multimedia sensor networks --- wildlife monitoring image --- extraction --- Hermite --- adaptive mean-shift --- biomedical imaging --- bone fracture --- calcaneus --- CT image --- segmentation --- zebrafish egg --- microscopy image processing --- convolutional neural network --- digital image correlation --- high-temperature measurement --- heat waves --- thermal disturbance --- background-oriented schlieren --- fermentation monitoring --- quality inspection --- process automation --- deep learning --- superellipsoid model fitting --- optical sensor --- multi-sensor --- face registration --- inner-distance --- Student's-t Mixtures Model --- image fusion --- continuous casting slabs --- surface defect classification --- discrete non-separable shearlet transform --- gray-level co-occurrence matrix --- kernel spectral regression --- block compressed sensing --- error resilience --- reconstruction --- image completion --- tensor decomposition models --- image interpolation --- image up-scaling --- numerical optimization --- ADAM --- machine learning --- stochastic gradient methods --- healthy and infected lemons --- Hyperspectral image --- Penicillium digitatum pathogen --- lemon skin --- dominant spectral wavelength --- spectral intensity ratio --- zebrafish larva --- microscopy image analysis --- deep neural network --- clustering evaluation --- clustering algorithm --- cluster validity index --- boundary point --- interior point --- radiographic image --- image processing --- feature extraction --- classifier --- defect detection --- generative models --- GAN (Generative adversarial networks) --- facial image --- generation --- database augmentation --- synthesis --- autofocus --- night vision goggles --- sparse and low-rank matrix decomposition --- change detection --- NSCT --- variogram function --- structure similarity --- Dongting Lake --- ego-motion estimation --- hand-eye calibration --- IMU --- lidar odometry --- sensor fusion --- texture classification --- Gabor filter --- parameter optimization --- feature selection --- hybrid ant lion optimizer --- wireless multimedia sensor networks --- wildlife monitoring image --- extraction --- Hermite --- adaptive mean-shift --- biomedical imaging --- bone fracture --- calcaneus --- CT image --- segmentation --- zebrafish egg --- microscopy image processing --- convolutional neural network --- digital image correlation --- high-temperature measurement --- heat waves --- thermal disturbance --- background-oriented schlieren --- fermentation monitoring --- quality inspection --- process automation --- deep learning --- superellipsoid model fitting --- optical sensor --- multi-sensor --- face registration --- inner-distance --- Student's-t Mixtures Model --- image fusion --- continuous casting slabs --- surface defect classification --- discrete non-separable shearlet transform --- gray-level co-occurrence matrix --- kernel spectral regression --- block compressed sensing --- error resilience --- reconstruction --- image completion --- tensor decomposition models --- image interpolation --- image up-scaling --- numerical optimization --- ADAM --- machine learning --- stochastic gradient methods --- healthy and infected lemons --- Hyperspectral image --- Penicillium digitatum pathogen --- lemon skin --- dominant spectral wavelength --- spectral intensity ratio --- zebrafish larva --- microscopy image analysis --- deep neural network --- clustering evaluation --- clustering algorithm --- cluster validity index --- boundary point --- interior point --- radiographic image --- image processing --- feature extraction --- classifier --- defect detection --- generative models --- GAN (Generative adversarial networks) --- facial image --- generation --- database augmentation --- synthesis --- autofocus --- night vision goggles --- sparse and low-rank matrix decomposition

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This book focuses on the intelligent processing of images and optical information acquired by various imaging methods. Intelligent image and optical information processing have paved the way for the recent epoch of new intelligence and information era. Certainly, information acquired by various imaging techniques is of tremendous value; thus, an intelligent analysis of them is necessary to make the best use of it. A broad range of research fields is included in this book. Many studies focus on object classification and detection. Registration, segmentation, and fusion are performed between a series of images. Many valuable and up-to-most recent technologies are provided to solve the real problems in selected papers.

History of engineering & technology --- change detection --- NSCT --- variogram function --- structure similarity --- Dongting Lake --- ego-motion estimation --- hand-eye calibration --- IMU --- lidar odometry --- sensor fusion --- texture classification --- Gabor filter --- parameter optimization --- feature selection --- hybrid ant lion optimizer --- wireless multimedia sensor networks --- wildlife monitoring image --- extraction --- Hermite --- adaptive mean-shift --- biomedical imaging --- bone fracture --- calcaneus --- CT image --- segmentation --- zebrafish egg --- microscopy image processing --- convolutional neural network --- digital image correlation --- high-temperature measurement --- heat waves --- thermal disturbance --- background-oriented schlieren --- fermentation monitoring --- quality inspection --- process automation --- deep learning --- superellipsoid model fitting --- optical sensor --- multi-sensor --- face registration --- inner-distance --- Student’s-t Mixtures Model --- image fusion --- continuous casting slabs --- surface defect classification --- discrete non-separable shearlet transform --- gray-level co-occurrence matrix --- kernel spectral regression --- block compressed sensing --- error resilience --- reconstruction --- image completion --- tensor decomposition models --- image interpolation --- image up-scaling --- numerical optimization --- ADAM --- machine learning --- stochastic gradient methods --- healthy and infected lemons --- Hyperspectral image --- Penicillium digitatum pathogen --- lemon skin --- dominant spectral wavelength --- spectral intensity ratio --- zebrafish larva --- microscopy image analysis --- deep neural network --- clustering evaluation --- clustering algorithm --- cluster validity index --- boundary point --- interior point --- radiographic image --- image processing --- feature extraction --- classifier --- defect detection --- generative models --- GAN (Generative adversarial networks) --- facial image --- generation --- database augmentation --- synthesis --- autofocus --- night vision goggles --- sparse and low-rank matrix decomposition --- n/a --- Student's-t Mixtures Model

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This book focuses on the intelligent processing of images and optical information acquired by various imaging methods. Intelligent image and optical information processing have paved the way for the recent epoch of new intelligence and information era. Certainly, information acquired by various imaging techniques is of tremendous value; thus, an intelligent analysis of them is necessary to make the best use of it. A broad range of research fields is included in this book. Many studies focus on object classification and detection. Registration, segmentation, and fusion are performed between a series of images. Many valuable and up-to-most recent technologies are provided to solve the real problems in selected papers.

change detection --- NSCT --- variogram function --- structure similarity --- Dongting Lake --- ego-motion estimation --- hand-eye calibration --- IMU --- lidar odometry --- sensor fusion --- texture classification --- Gabor filter --- parameter optimization --- feature selection --- hybrid ant lion optimizer --- wireless multimedia sensor networks --- wildlife monitoring image --- extraction --- Hermite --- adaptive mean-shift --- biomedical imaging --- bone fracture --- calcaneus --- CT image --- segmentation --- zebrafish egg --- microscopy image processing --- convolutional neural network --- digital image correlation --- high-temperature measurement --- heat waves --- thermal disturbance --- background-oriented schlieren --- fermentation monitoring --- quality inspection --- process automation --- deep learning --- superellipsoid model fitting --- optical sensor --- multi-sensor --- face registration --- inner-distance --- Student’s-t Mixtures Model --- image fusion --- continuous casting slabs --- surface defect classification --- discrete non-separable shearlet transform --- gray-level co-occurrence matrix --- kernel spectral regression --- block compressed sensing --- error resilience --- reconstruction --- image completion --- tensor decomposition models --- image interpolation --- image up-scaling --- numerical optimization --- ADAM --- machine learning --- stochastic gradient methods --- healthy and infected lemons --- Hyperspectral image --- Penicillium digitatum pathogen --- lemon skin --- dominant spectral wavelength --- spectral intensity ratio --- zebrafish larva --- microscopy image analysis --- deep neural network --- clustering evaluation --- clustering algorithm --- cluster validity index --- boundary point --- interior point --- radiographic image --- image processing --- feature extraction --- classifier --- defect detection --- generative models --- GAN (Generative adversarial networks) --- facial image --- generation --- database augmentation --- synthesis --- autofocus --- night vision goggles --- sparse and low-rank matrix decomposition --- n/a --- Student's-t Mixtures Model