From Visual Surveillance to Internet of Things: Technology and Applications (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780367221942)

Dr. Lavanya Sharma received her M.Tech (Computer Science and Engineering) in 2013 from Manav Rachna College of Engineering, affiliated with Maharshi Dayanand University, Haryana, India.

She received her Ph.D. from Uttarakhand Technical University, India, as a full-time Ph.D. scholar in the field of digital image processing and computer vision in April 2018, and also received a TEQIP scholarship for the same. Her research work is on motion-based object detection using background subtraction technique for smart video surveillance. She received several prestigious awards during her academic career.

She has more than 20 research papers to her credit, including Elsevier (SCI Indexed), Inderscience, IGI Global, IEEE Explore, and many more. She has authored a book Object Detection with Background Subtraction.

She contributed as an Organizing Committee member and session chair at Springer's ICACDS conferences 2016, ICRAMSTEL 2019, and Springer's ICACDS 2019. She is an editorial member/reviewer of various journals of repute, including Inderscience, IGI Global, and many others. She is an active program committee member of various IEEE and Springer conferences also.

Her primary research interests are digital image processing and computer vision, vehicular ad hoc networks, mobile ad hoc networks, and Internet of Things. Her vision is to promote teaching and research, providing a highly competitive and productive environment in academic and research areas with tremendous growing opportunities for the society and her country.

Professor Pradeep K. Garg worked as a Vice Chancellor, Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun (2015-2018). Presently he is working in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee as a professor. He has completed a B.Tech (Civil Engineering) in 1980 and M.Tech (Civil Engineering) in 1982 both

from the University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee). He is a recipient of the Gold Medal at IIT Roorkee to stand first during M.Tech program, the Commonwealth Scholarship Award for doing Ph.D. from University of Bristol (UK), and the Commonwealth Fellowship Award to carry out post-doctoral research work at the University of Reading (UK). He joined the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Roorkee in 1982, and gradually advancing his career, rose to the position of Head of the Department in 2015 at IIT Roorkee.

Professor Garg has published more than 310 technical papers in national and international conferences and journals. He has undertaken 26 research projects and provided technical services to 83 consultancy projects on various aspects of Civil Engineering, generating funds for the Institute. He has authored a textbook on Remote Sensing and another one on Principles and Theory of Geoinformatics, as well as produced two technical films on story mapping. He has developed several new courses and practical exercises in geomatics engineering. Besides supervising a large number of undergraduate projects, he has guided about 70 M.Tech and 26 Ph.D. theses. He is instrumental in prestigious Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)-funded projects on e-learning, Development of Virtual Labs, Pedagogy, and courses under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL). He has served as an expert on various national committees, including Ministry of Environment and Forests, National Board of Accreditation (All India Council of Technical Education), and Project Evaluation Committee, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi.

Professor Garg has reviewed a large number of papers for national and international journals. Considering the need to train the human resources in the country, he has successfully organized 40 programs in advanced areas of surveying, photogrammetry, remote sensing, geographic information system (GIS), and global positioning system (GPS). He has successfully organized 10 conferences and workshops. He is a life member of 24 professional societies, out of which he is a Fellow member of 8 societies. For academic work, Professor Garg has travelled widely, nationally and internationally.