Introduction -- Image Features Detection, Description and Matching -- A Review of Image Interest Point Detectors: From Algorithms to FPGA Hardware Implementations -- Image Features Extraction, Selection and Fusion for Computer Vision -- Image Feature Extraction Acceleration -- Satellite Image Registration: A Comparative Study Using Invariant Local Features -- Redundancy Elimination in Video Summarization -- A Real Time Dactylology Based Selective Image Encryption Using Speeded Up Robust Features Extraction Technique and Artificial Neural Network -- Spectral Reflectance Images and Applications -- Image Segmentation using an Evolutionary Method based on Allostatic Mechanisms -- Image Analysis and Coding Based on Ordinal Data Representation -- Intelligent Detection of Foveal Zone from Colored Fundus Images of Human Retina through a Robust Combination of Fuzzy-Logic and Active Contour Model -- Registration of Digital Terrain Images using Nondegenerate Singular Points -- Visual Speech Recognition with Selected Boundary Descriptors -- Application of Texture Features for Classification of Primary Benign and Primary Malignant Focal Liver Lesions -- Application of Statistical Texture Features for Breast Tissue Density Classification.