This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of Camera Monitor Systems (CMS), ranging from the ISO 16505-based development aspects to practical realization concepts. It offers readers a wide-ranging discussion of the science and technology of CMS as well as the human-interface factors of such systems. In addition, it serves as a single reference source with contributions from leading international CMS professionals and academic researchers.

In combination with the latest version of UN Regulation No. 46, the normative framework of ISO 16505 permits CMS to replace mandatory rearview mirrors in series production vehicles. The handbook includes scientific and technical background information to further readers' understanding of both of these regulatory and normative texts.

It is a key reference in the field of automotive CMS for system designers, members of standardization and regulation committees, engineers, students and researchers.

Professor Dr. Anestis Terzis is the head of the Automotive Electronics study course at Ulm University of Applied Sciences in Germany and the coordinator of the university's International Electrical Engineering Program (IEEP). Prior to this, he was with Daimler AG for ten years and worked in the Group Research & Mercedes-Benz Cars Development, with a main focus on future advanced driver assistance systems.

Born 1978 in Heidenheim, Germany, Professor Terzis received his diploma in Communications Engineering from Ulm University of Applied Sciences. He also holds a doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He is one of the authors of the ISO 16505 content and an expert member of the standardization and regulation committees in the field of camera monitor systems.

He left the Daimler AG Research Center in 2012 to become a professor for Digital Systems Design at Ulm University of Applied Sciences. His lectures include digital technology with VHDL and FPGAs, fundamentals of electrical engineering, and automotive systems. His primary research field is advanced camera-based driver assistance systems.

Professor Terzis combines academic and industrial experience. He is the founder and the director of the Steinbeis Transfer Center DSI - Digital Systems and Innovations, a company in the Steinbeis Network and based in Ulm, Germany that offers consulting, as well as courses, prototype development and measurement technologies (www.stw.de/su/1637). His contact information can be found at www.hs-ulm.de/terzis.