The 16th edition of the International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer
Imagery was held in Nancy, France, April 6–8, 2011, and was organized
by the ADAGIo team of the LORIA laboratory (Lorraine research center in
computer science and its applications). DGCI 2011 attracted many researchers
from all around the...
The annual Text, Speech and Dialogue Conference (TSD), which originated in 1998, is
now starting its second decade. So far more than 1,000 authors from 45 countries have
contributed to the proceedings. TSD constitutes a recognized platform for the presentation
and discussion of state-of-the-art technology and recent achievements in...
This volume brings together, through a peer-revision process, the advanced research
results obtained by the European COST Action 2102: Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal
and Nonverbal Communication, primarily discussed for the first time at the Second
COST 2102 International Training School on “Development of Multimodal...
These proceedings contain the papers presented at ECIR 2009, the 31st European
Conference on Information Retrieval. The conference was organized by
the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), in cooperation
with the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the British Computer Society
(BCS-IRSG) and was...
The papers in this volume represent the proceedings of the 7th Industrial Conference on Data Mining. They are organized into topical sections on aspects of classification and prediction, clustering, web mining, data mining in medicine, applications of data mining, time series and frequent pattern mining, and association rule mining. Readers...
Super resolution is one of the most fascinating and applicable fields in optical data
processing. The urge to obtain highly resolved images using low-quality imaging
optics and detectors is very appealing.
The field of super resolution may be categorized into two groups: diffractive and
geometrical super...
This is a practical book for computer engineers who want to understand or
implement hardware/software systems. It focuses on problems that require one
to combine hardware design with software design – such problems can be solved
with hardware/software codesign. When used properly, hardware/software codesign
works better...
Engineering Optics is a book for students who want to apply their knowledge of optics to engineering problems, as well as for engineering students who want to acquire the basic principles of optics. It covers such important topics as optical signal processing, holography, tomography, holographic radars, fiber optical communication, electro-...
The Second International Workshop on Automated Deduction in Geometry
(ADG ’98) was held in Beijing, China, August 1–3, 1998. An increase of interest
in ADG ’98 over the previous workshop ADG ’96 is represented by the notable
number of more than 40 participants from ten countries and the strong technical...
Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a recent paradigm emerging from Artificial Intelligence (AI), where computers are used as proactive tools assisting people with their day-to-day activities, making everyone’s life more comfortable. Another main concern of AmI originates from the human computer interaction domain and focuses on offering ways...
Abstract Bringing maps to users has been made much easier with the World Wide
Web. Millions of maps now make their way through a world-wide network of
computers. A major change occurred in 2005 in how those maps were delivered
when Google Maps implemented a tile-based mapping system based on AJAX that
facilitated interactive...
The emergence and deployment of new digital communication technologies (3G
mobile networks, digital television, xDSL, home automation networks, etc.) has
led to a gradual increase in speed while a steady decline in prices at Internet connections.
Moreover, since much longer ago, the continuing advances in electronic
technology...
