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This book presents important recent advances in sensors, image processing algorithms, and systems for image recognition and classification with diverse applications in military, aerospace, security, image tracking, radar, biomedical, and intelligent transportation. The book includes contributions by some of the leading researchers in the field to present an overview of advances in image recognition and classification over the past decade. It provides both theoretical and practical information on advances in the field.

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