1. Target Recognition in Infrared: Local Feature Based Person Detection and Tracking Beyond the Visible Spectrum -- Fuzzy mixture of Gaussians for the detection of moving objects in and beyond visible spectrum -- Dynamic Appearance Learning by Adaptive Kalman Filters for Robust Infrared Tracking -- Pedestrian Association and Localization in Monocular FIR Video Sequence -- Vehicle Matching and Recognition under Large Variations of Pose and Illumination -- 2. Multi-Sensor Fusion and Smart Sensors: Fusion of a Camera and a Laser Range Sensor for Vehicle Recognition -- Geometric Sequence (GS) Imaging with Bayesian Smoothing for Optical and Capacitive Imaging Sensors -- A System Approach to Adaptive Multimodal Sensor Designs.-3. Hyperspectral Image Analysis: Statistical Affine Invariant Hyperspectral Texture Descriptors Based Upon Harmonic Analysis -- Face Tracking and Classification Using Hyperspectral Video Sequences -- On near real-time moving Object Detection and Tracking in Multi-spectral Aerial imagery.