Machine Vision and Navigation

Machine Vision for Scientific, Industrial and Civil Applications.- Chapter 20. Stairways Detection Based on Single Camera by Motion Stereo for the Blind and Visually Impaired.- Chapter 21. Advanced phase triangulation methods for 3D shape measurements in scientific and industrial applications.- Chapter 22.Detection and tracking of melt pool in blown powder deposition through image processing of infrared camera data.- Chapter 23.Image Processing Filters for Machine Fault Detection and Isolation.- Chapter 24. Control and Automation for Miniaturized Microwave GSG Nanoprobing.- Chapter 25. Control and Automation for Miniaturized Microwave GSG Nanoprobing.- Chapter 26.Computer Vision-based Monitoring of Ship Navigation for Bridge Collision Risk Assessment.

Wendy Flores-Fuentes received her Ph.D. degree in science, applied physics, with emphasis on Optoelectronic Scanning Systems for SHM, from Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in June 2014. She is the author of 22 journal articles in Elsevier, IEEE, MDPI,  Emerald and Springer, 8 book chapters and 4 books in Intech, IGI global, and Lambert Academic , 30 proceedings articles in IEEE ISIE 2014-2018, IECON 2014, IECON 2018, theWorld Congress on Engineering and Computer Science (IAENG 2013), IEEE Section Mexico IEEE ROCC2011, and the VII International Conference on Industrial Engineering ARGOS 2014. Recently, she has organized and participated as Chair of Special Session on ''Machine Vision, Control and Navigation'' at IEEE ISIE 2015, 2016, 2017 and IECON 2018. She holds 1 patent of Mexico, and 1 patent of Ukraine. She has been a reviewer of several articles in Taylor and Francis, IEEE, Elsevier, and MDPI. Currently, she is a full-time professor at Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, at the Faculty of Engineering, and she is the coordinator of the physics area in the basic science department. She has been incorporated into CONACYT National Research System in 2015. She did receive the award of "Best session presentation" in WSECS2013 in San-Francisco, USA. She did receive as coauthor the award of "Outstanding Paper in the 2017 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence".

Paolo Mercorelli received the Ph.D. degree in Systems Engineering from Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, in 1998. In 1997, he was a Visiting Researcher for one year in the Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He was awarded by the Marie Curie Actions research fellowship program sponsored by The European Commission in year 1998 which he spent in ABB Corporate research Heidelberg. The Marie Curie Actions research fellowship program is a set of mobility research grant schemes funding pre- and post-doctoral  researchers in Europe as well as experienced researchers from all over the world. The Marie-Curie Fellowships are Europe's most competitive and prestigious awards, and are aimed at fostering interdisciplinary research and international collaborations. Thanks to this scholarship, from 1998 to 2001, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Asea Brown Boveri, Heidelberg, Germany. From 2002 to 2005, he was a Senior Resea