“…Several technological developments rely on the acquisition and processing of images and videos to extract and enhance information (Scharcanski et al, 1993;Cavalcanti et al, 2010), in areas ranging from engineering Dodson, 1966, 2000;Scharcanski, 2005) and medicine (Wong et al, 2011) to biometric authentication (Behaine and Scharcanski, 2012;Verdoolaege et al, 2014). In particular, the growing processing capability and the improvement of the camera quality of consumer electronic devices (Google, 2016), such as smartphones and laptops, allow to obtain a wide range of vision-based measurements in a variety of areas, such as monitoring food intake, assisting the visual impaired, biometric user authentication, and in several other medicine and engineering applications.…”