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and mining industries. Finally, we hope that this article helps
guide interested readers to the main topics and challenges in
this line of research.

Author
Hasan Al-Marzouqi (hasalmarzouqi@pi.ac.ae) received his
bachelor's degree (with honors) and his M.S. degree, both
in electrical and computer engineering, from Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, Tennessee, in 2004 and 2006, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer
engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2014.
His research interests include digital rock physics, image classification, machine intelligence, and directional transforms. He
is an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department, Khalifa University of Science and
Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

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