

- Category: Miscellaneous
- Release Date: 2009-11-01 00:00:00
- Tags: Collaborative, Search, Designing, Systems, Spectrum, Collaborative, Styles, Synthesis, Lectures, Information, Concepts, Retrieval, Services,

This lecture describes the author's approach to the representation of color spaces and their use for color image processing. The lecture starts with a precise formulation of the space of physical...
- Category: Image Processing
- Release Date: 2007-08-07 00:00:00
- Tags: Color, Theory, Synthesis, Lectures, Image, Video, Multimedia, Processing,

Variation-Aware Analog Structural Synthesis describes computational intelligence-based tools for robust design of analog circuits. It starts with global variation-aware sizing and knowledge...
- Category: Miscellaneous
- Release Date: 2009-07-21 00:00:00
- Tags: Variation, Aware, Analog, Structural, Synthesis, Computational, Intelligence, Approach, Analog, Circuits, Signal, Processing,

Documents usually have a content and a structure. The content refers to the text of the document, whereas the structure refers to how a document is logically organized. An increasingly common way...

The sequel to the popular lecture book entitled Biomedical Image Analysis: Tracking, this book on Biomedical Image Analysis: Segmentation tackles the challenging task of segmenting biological and...
- Category: Image Processing
- Release Date: 2007-07-01 00:00:00
- Tags: Biomedical, Image, Analysis, Segmentation, Synthesis, Lectures, Image, Video, amp;, Multimedia, Processing,

Text-to-Speech Synthesis provides a complete, end-to-end account of the process of generating speech by computer. Giving an in-depth explanation of all aspects of current speech synthesis...
- Category: Miscellaneous
- Release Date: 2009-02-28 00:00:00
- Tags: Text, Speech, Synthesis,

Sound Synthesis and Sampling' provides a comprehensive introduction to the underlying principles and practical techniques applied to both commercial and research sound synthesizers. This new...
- Category: Multimedia
- Release Date: 2008-10-06 00:00:00
- Tags: Sound, Synthesis, Sampling, Third, Edition, Music, Technology,

In the last few years, power dissipation has become an important design constraint, on par with performance, in the design of new computer systems. Whereas in the past, the primary job of the...
- Category: Computer Organization
- Release Date: 2008-06-16 00:00:00
- Tags: Computer, Architecture, Techniques, Power, Efficiency, Synthesis, Lectures, Computer, Architecture,

Computational Studies of Human Motion: Part 1, Tracking and Motion Synthesis reviews methods for kinematic tracking of the human body in video. The review confines itself to the earlier stages of...
- Category: Computer Graphics
- Release Date: 2006-04-30 00:00:00
- Tags: Computational, Studies, Human, Motion, Part, Tracking, Motion, Synthesis, Foundations, Trends, Computer, Graphics, Vision,

This comprehensive introduction to software synthesis techniques and programming is intended for students, researchers, musicians, sound artists and enthusiasts in the field of music technology....
- Category: Multimedia
- Release Date: 2008-07-20 00:00:00
- Tags: Computer, Sound, Design, Synthesis, Techniques, Programming, Music, Technology,

Managing data in a mobile computing environment invariably involves caching or replication. In many cases, a mobile device has access only to data that is stored locally, and much of that data...
- Category: Miscellaneous
- Release Date: 2008-06-05 00:00:00
- Tags: Replicated, Data, Management, Mobile, Computing, Synthesis, Lectures, Mobile, Pervasive, Computing,

This book presents techniques to render photo-realistic images by programming the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). We discuss effects such as mirror reflections, refractions, caustics, diffuse or...
- Category: Computer Graphics
- Release Date: 2008-05-30 00:00:00
- Tags: GPU, Based, Techniques, Global, Illumination, Effects, Synthesis, Lectures, Computer, Graphics,

In biological and medical imaging applications, tracking objects in motion is a critical task. This book describes the state-of-the-art in biomedical tracking techniques. We begin by detailing...
- Category: Image Processing
- Release Date: 2006-02-01 00:00:00
- Tags: Biomedical, Image, Analysis, Tracking, Synthesis, Lectures, Image, Video, amp;, Multimedia, Processing,

This book is about objective image quality assessment?where the aim is to provide computational models that can automatically predict perceptual image quality. The early years of the 21st century...
- Category: Image Processing
- Release Date: 2006-03-01 00:00:00
- Tags: Modern, Image, Quality, Assessment, Synthesis, Lectures, Image, Video, amp;, Multimedia, Processing,

Light field is one of the most representative image-based rendering techniques that generate novel virtual views from images instead of 3D models. The light field capture and rendering process...
- Category: Multimedia
- Release Date: 2006-09-01 00:00:00
- Tags: Light, Field, Sampling, Synthesis, Lectures, Image, Video, Multimedia, Processing,

This lecture provides an introduction to Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), a technology enabling automatic identification of objects at a distance without requiring line-of-sight. Electronic...

This lecture provides an introduction to the problem of managing the energy demand of mobile devices. Reducing energy consumption, primarily with the goal of extending the lifetime of...

All human speech has expression. It is part of the 'humanness' of speech, and is a quality listeners expect to find. Without expression, speech sounds lifeless and artificial. Remove expression,...
- Category: Natural Language Processing
- Release Date: 2006-11-23 00:00:00
- Tags: Expression, Speech, Analysis, Synthesis,

High dynamic range imaging (HDRI) is an emerging field that has the potential to cause a great scientific and technological impact in the near future. Although new, this field is large and...
- Category: Computer Graphics
- Release Date: 2008-05-30 00:00:00
- Tags: High, Dynamic, Range, Imaging, Reconstruction, Synthesis, Lectures, Computer, Graphics,

Starting with simple examples showing the relevance of cutting and pasting logics, the monograph develops a mathematical theory of combining and decomposing logics, ranging from propositional...

3D Modeling and Animation: Synthesis and Analysis Techniques for the Human Body covers the areas of modeling and animating 3D synthetic human models at a level that is useful to students,...
- Category: Design & Graphics
- Release Date: 2005-03-22 00:00:00
- Tags: Modeling, Animation, Synthesis, Analysis, Techniques, Human, Body,

This book is intended for anyone trying to learn the fundamentals of computer programming. The chapters lead the reader through the various steps required for writing a program, introducing the...
- Category: MATLAB
- Release Date: 2007-08-21 00:00:00
- Tags: Learning, Programming, using, MATLAB, Synthesis, Lectures, Electrical, Engineering,

This book provides practicing scientists and engineers a tutorial on the fundamental concepts and use of microcontrollers. Today, microcontrollers, or single integrated circuit (chip) computers,...
- Category: Computer Engineering
- Release Date: 2006-07-05 00:00:00
- Tags: Microcontrollers, Fundamentals, Engineers, Scientists, Synthesis, Lectures, Digital, Circuits, Systems,

This book covers the basic aspects of Code Division Multiple Access or CDMA. It begins with an introduction to the basic ideas behind fixed and random access systems in order to demonstrate the...

Natural phenomena can be visually described with fractal-geometry methods, where iterative procedures rather than equations are used to model objects. With the development of better modelling...

This lecture is a review of what is known about modeling human speech recognition (HSR). A model is proposed, and data are tested against the model. There seem to be a large number of...
- Category: Natural Language Processing
- Release Date: 2005-06-06 00:00:00
- Tags: Articulation, Intelligibility, Synthesis, Lectures, Speech, Audio, Processing,

An important merit of the MPEG-4 video standard is that it not only provided tools and algorithms for enhancing the compression efficiency of existing MPEG-2 and H.263 standards but also...
- Category: Multimedia
- Release Date: 2006-03-03 00:00:00
- Tags: MPEG, Beyond, Conventional, Video, Coding, Object, Coding, Resilience, Scalability, Synthesis, Lectures, Image, Video, amp;, Multimedia, Processing,

Rapid advances in microelectronic integration and the advent of Systems-on-Chip have fueled the need for high-level synthesis, i.e., an automated approach to the synthesis of hardware from...
- Category: Computer Engineering
- Release Date: 2005-12-12 00:00:00
- Tags: SPARK, Parallelizing, Approach, High, Level, Synthesis, Digital, Circuits,

This monograph is an essential reference for both academic and professional researchers working in the fields of computer vision, surveillance, HCI, image processing, and modeling. The human face...
- Category: Artificial Intelligence
- Release Date: 2004-07-22 00:00:00
- Tags: Face, Processing, Modeling, Analysis, Synthesis, International, Series, Video, Computing,

