"Intelligent Image Features Extraction in Knowledge Discovery Systems" (036-0982560-1643) is a scientific project funded by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia (MZOS), whose purpose is to create intelligent methods for solving difficult high-level image feature extraction and analysis problems. Project's hosting institution is the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Communication and Space Technologies, Zagreb, Croatia. Project duration is from 01 January 2007 until 31 December 2009, with the possible extension for additional 2 years.

This project is a part of the interdisciplinary and inter-institutional scientific program "Computational Knowledge Discovery Methods in Scientific Applications" (0982560), which is also supported by MZOS. Program's hosting institution is the Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia. Currently, this program consists of 5 different scientific projects (additional 2 projects pending approval). More information about the scientific program is available on the program's official web-site.

New journal paper by Mislav Grgic, Kresimir Delac and Sonja Grgic, entitled: SCface - Surveillance Cameras Face Database, was published in Springer Journal "Multimedia Tools and Applications", Vol. 51, No. 3, February 2011, pp. 863-879. For the full version of the paper please click on this link.

New journal paper by Emil Dumic, Sonja Grgic and Mislav Grgic, entitled: New Image-quality Measure based on Wavelets, was published in SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 19, No. 1, Article ID 011018, 19 pages. For the full version of the paper please click on this link.

New book "Recent Advances in Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications", edited by: Mislav Grgic, Kresimir Delac and Mohammed Ghanbari, was published by Springer-Verlag in October 2009. This book covers the most prominent research issues in multimedia and is divided into four main sections: i) content based retrieval, ii) storage and remote access, iii) watermarking and copyright protection and iv) multimedia applications. The book contains 24 chapters (662 pages). For more information please visit this page.

Professor Rangaraj M. Rangayyan, IEEE Fellow from the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada will give two seminars at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER), University of Zagreb, Unska 3, Zagreb, Croatia, organized under the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Distinguished Lecturers program. Seminars will be held on 29th and 30th June 2009. They will be related to computer-aided diagnosis of breast cancer and CT image processing techniques. For more information please visit this page.

"High-Quality Visual Experience: creation, processing and interactivity of high-resolution and high-dimensional video signals" - to be published by Springer Verlag in the series "Signals and Communication Technology". Book is edited by Marta Mrak, Mislav Grgic and Murat Kunt. Deadline for the submission of abstracts is June 29, 2009 and deadline for the submission of full chapters is September 28, 2009. For more information please visit this page.

"Mammographic Image Analysis Homepage" was developed under this project. This new web-site contains relevant information in the area of mammographic image analysis. It was developed to become the information pool for the mammographic image analysis research community. It could be an entry point for novices as well as a centralized information resource for experienced researchers. Special emphasis is given to computer-aided detection and diagnosis (CAD) in digital mammography (breast cancer research). More information is available here: www.mammoimage.org

New book "Recent Advances in Face Recognition", edited by: Kresimir Delac, Mislav Grgic and Marian Stewart Bartlett, was published in December 2008. This book is a collection of 15 chapters (236 pages). The goal of this book is to provide the reader with the most up to date research performed in automatic face recognition. The chapters presented use innovative approaches to deal with a wide variety of unsolved issues. Book is a part of an open access project - you can download the whole book free of charge.

New book entitled "Face Recognition" was published by I-Tech Education and Publishing, Vienna, Austria (ISBN 978-3-902613-03-5). Book was edited by two project's members: Kresimir Delac and Mislav Grgic.

This book is a collection of 28 chapters written by many authors. Book contains 558 pages. We would like to thank all the contributers for their efforts. Book is a part of an open access project and you can either buy a hard cover paper version of the book or download the whole book freely. It is free to read, print, download and use the content or part of it so long as the original author(s) and source are correctly credited.

This web-site is launched on 23 August 2007. It contains information about the scientific project "Intelligent Image Features Extraction in Knowledge Discovery Systems" (036-0982560-1643), supported by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia.

This web-site will be used for communication within the project, to convey the aims and objectives of the project to the scientific community and for disseminating results to the wide research community and professionals working in the area closely related to this project. Objectives, motivation, appropriate technical documentation, meeting schedule and software demonstrations will be included in the web-site.