Xavier Falcao Alexandre - Optimum-Path Forest

First edition

Alexandre Xavier Falco

Joo Paulo Papa

1. Tables in Chapter 3
2. Tables in Chapter 4
3. Tables in Chapter 5
4. Tables in Chapter 6
5. Tables in Chapter 7
6. Tables in Chapter 8

1. Figures in Chapter 2
2. Figures in Chapter 3
3. Figures in Chapter 4
4. Figures in Chapter 5
5. Figures in Chapter 6
6. Figures in Chapter 7
7. Figures in Chapter 8

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To God, my wife, Daiane, and my sons, Bento and Mateo (coming soon). Last but not least, to my father, Mauro (In memoriam), to my mother, Maria, to my sisters, and the whole family.

Joo Paulo Papa

I would like to dedicate this work to my mother, Darcy, wife Paula, daughter, Clara, and son, Pedro.

Alexandre Xavier Falco

Luis C.S. Afonso UNESP So Paulo State University, School of Sciences, Bauru, Brazil

David Aparco-Cardenas Institute of Computing, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, So Paulo, Brazil

Hamid Bostani

Young Researchers and Elite Club, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Digital Security Group, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Rafael S. Bressan Department of Computing, Federal University of Technology Parana, Cornelio Procopio, Brazil

Pedro H. Bugatti Department of Computing, Federal University of Technology Parana, Cornelio Procopio, Brazil

Kelton Costa So Paulo State University, Department of Computing, Bauru, Brazil

Pedro Jussieu de Rezende Institute of Computing, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, So Paulo, Brazil

Gustavo H. de Rosa Department of Computing, So Paulo State University, Bauru, Brazil

Luis A. de Souza Jr. Department of Computing, So Carlos Federal University, So Carlos, Brazil

Alexandre Xavier Falco Institute of Computing, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, So Paulo, Brazil

Danilo Samuel Jodas Department of Computing, So Paulo State University, Bauru, Brazil

Joo Paulo Papa

UNESP So Paulo State University, School of Sciences, Bauru, Brazil

Department of Computing, So Paulo State University, Bauru, Brazil

Leandro Aparecido Passos Department of Computing, So Paulo State University, Bauru, Brazil

Rafael Pires Department of Computing, So Paulo State University, Bauru, Brazil

Mateus Roder Department of Computing, So Paulo State University, Bauru, Brazil

Priscila T.M. Saito Department of Computing, Federal University of Technology Parana, Cornelio Procopio, Brazil

Rafa Scherer Czestochowa University of Technology, Department of Computing, Czstochowa, Poland

Mansour Sheikhan Department of Electrical Engineering, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Marcos Cleison Silva Santana Department of Computing, So Paulo State University, Bauru, Brazil

Luan Utimura So Paulo State University, Department of Computing, Bauru, Brazil

Alexandre Xavier Falco (lids.ic.unicamp.br) is a full professor at the Institute of Computing (IC), University of Campinas (Unicamp), where he has worked since 1998.

He attended the Federal University of Pernambuco from 19841988, where he received a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering. He then attended Unicamp, where he got an M.Sc. (1993), and a Ph.D. (1996), in Electrical Engineering, by working on volumetric data visualization and medical image segmentation. During his Ph.D., he worked with the Medical Image Processing Group at the University of Pennsylvania from 19941996. In 1997, he developed video quality assessment methods for Globo TV. In 20112012, he spent a one-year sabbatical at the Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health (USDA, Cornell University), working on image analysis applied to plant biology.

He served as Associate Director of IC-Unicamp (20062007), Coordinator of its Post-Graduation Program (20092011), and Senior Area Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters (20162020). He is currently a research fellow at the top level for the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), President of the Special Commission of Computer Graphics and Image Processing (CEGRAPI) for the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), and Area Coordinator of Computer Science for the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).