Book excerpt: MACHINE INTELLIGENCE, BIG DATA ANALYTICS, AND IoT IN IMAGE PROCESSING Discusses both theoretical and practical aspects of how to harness advanced technologies to develop practical applications such as drone-based surveillance, smart transportation, healthcare, farming solutions, and robotics used in automation. The concepts of machine intelligence, big data analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT) continue to improve our lives through various cutting-edge applications such as disease detection in real-time, crop yield prediction, smart parking, and so forth. The transformative effects of these technologies are life-changing because they play an important role in demystifying smart healthcare, plant pathology, and smart city/village planning, design and development. This book presents a cross-disciplinary perspective on the practical applications of machine intelligence, big data analytics, and IoT by compiling cutting-edge research and insights from researchers, academicians, and practitioners worldwide. It identifies and discusses various advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, image processing, network security, cloud computing, and sensors, to provide effective solutions to the lifestyle challenges faced by humankind. Machine Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, and IoT in Image Processing is a significant addition to the body of knowledge on practical applications emerging from machine intelligence, big data analytics, and IoT. The chapters deal with specific areas of applications of these technologies. This deliberate choice of covering a diversity of fields was to emphasize the applications of these technologies in almost every contemporary aspect of real life to assist working in different sectors by understanding and exploiting the strategic opportunities offered by these technologies. Audience The book will be of interest to a range of researchers and scientists in artificial intelligence who work on practical applications using machine learning, big data analytics, natural language processing, pattern recognition, and IoT by analyzing images. Software developers, industry specialists, and policymakers in medicine, agriculture, smart cities development, transportation, etc. will find this book exceedingly useful.