As future generation information technology (FGIT) becomes specialized and fr- mented, it is easy to lose sight that many topics in FGIT have common threads and, because of this, advances in one discipline may be transmitted to others.

A Blind Image Wavelet-Based Watermarking Using Interval Arithmetic.- Hand Gesture Spotting Based on 3D Dynamic Features Using Hidden Markov Models.- Objective Quality Evaluation of Laser Markings for Assembly Control.- An Improved Object Detection and Contour Tracking Algorithm Based on Local Curvature.- An Efficient Method for Noisy Cell Image Segmentation Using Generalized ?-Entropy.- An Algorithm for Moving Multi-target Prediction in a Celestial Background.- Automatic Control Signal Generation of a CCD Camera for Object Tracking.- An Efficient Approach for Region-Based Image Classification and Retrieval.- An Improved Design for Digital Audio Effect of Flanging.- Robust Speech Enhancement Using Two-Stage Filtered Minima Controlled Recursive Averaging.- Automatic Colon Cleansing in CTC Image Using Gradient Magnitude and Similarity Measure.- A Scale and Rotation Invariant Interest Points Detector Based on Gabor Filters.- Signature Verification Based on Handwritten Text Recognition.- Effect of Image Linearization on Normalized Compression Distance.- A Comparative Study of Blind Speech Separation Using Subspace Methods and Higher Order Statistics.- Automatic Fatigue Detection of Drivers through Yawning Analysis.- GA-SVM Based Lungs Nodule Detection and Classification.- Link Shifting Based Pyramid Segmentation for Elongated Regions.- A Robust Algorithm for Fruit-Sorting under Variable Illumination.- Selection of Accurate and Robust Classification Model for Binary Classification Problems.- Robust Edge-Enhanced Fragment Based Normalized Correlation Tracking in Cluttered and Occluded Imagery.- Robust and Imperceptible Watermarking of Video Streams for Low Power Devices.- A New Ensemble Scheme for Predicting Human Proteins Subcellular Locations.- Designing Linear Phase FIR Filters with Particle Swarm Optimization and Harmony Search.- Blind Image Steganalysis Based on Local Information and Human Visual System.- An Effective Combination of MPP Contour-Based Features for Off-Line Text-Independent Arabic Writer Identification.- Ringing Artifact Removal in Digital Restored Images Using Multi-Resolution Edge Map.- Upmixing Stereo Audio into 5.1 Channel Audio for Improving Audio Realism.- Multiway Filtering Based on Multilinear Algebra Tools.- LaMOC – A Location Aware Mobile Cooperative System.- Modelling of Camera Phone Capture Channel for JPEG Colour Barcode Images.- Semantic Network Adaptation Based on QoS Pattern Recognition for Multimedia Streams.- Active Shape Model-Based Gait Recognition Using Infrared Images.- About Classification Methods Based on Tensor Modelling for Hyperspectral Images.- Comparative Analysis of Wavelet-Based Scale-Invariant Feature Extraction Using Different Wavelet Bases.- A Novel Video Segmentation Algorithm with Shadow Cancellation and Adaptive Threshold Techniques.- Considerations of Image Compression Scheme Hiding a Part of Coded Data into Own Image Coded Data.- Binarising SIFT-Descriptors to Reduce the Curse of Dimensionalityin Histogram-Based Object Recognition.