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Face Geometry and Appearance Modeling: Concepts and Applications

Cambridge University Press, 2011

Human faces are familiar to our visual systems. We easily recognize a person's face in arbitrary lighting conditions and in a variety of poses; detect small appearance changes; and notice subtle expression details. Can computer vision systems process face images as well as human vision systems can? Face image processing has potential...

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Excel 2003

Que, 2003

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Excel 2003 is your key to designing and producing dazzling worksheets. Here, you learn how to build worksheets from scratch and customize Excel's worksheet templates. You'll find how to enhance worksheets with fancy fonts, colorful shading and borders,...

CCNP BSCI Portable Command Guide (Self-Study Guide)

Cisco Press, 2007

Preparing for the CCNP® certification? Working as a network professional? Here are all the CCNP-level commands for the Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI) exam you need in one condensed, portable resource. The CCNP BSCI Portable Command Guide is filled with valuable, easy-to-access information and is portable...

Toward Artificial Sapience: Principles and Methods for Wise Systems

Springer, 2007

The current attempt to emulate human sapience (wisdom) by artificial means should be a step in the right direction beyond the Artificial/Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing disciplines, but is it warranted? Have humans achieved a level of modeling smart systems that justifies talking about sapience-wisdom?

This book presents...

Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology

MIT Press, 2001

A new breed of contemporary artist engages science and technology--not just to adopt the vocabulary and gizmos, but to explore and comment on the content, agendas, and possibilities. Indeed, proposes Stephen Wilson, the role of the artist is not only to interpret and to spread scientific knowledge, but to be an active partner in determining the...

Modern Image Quality Assessment (Synthesis Lectures on Image, Video, & Multimedia Processing)

Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2006

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 have witnessed a tremendous growth in the use of digital images as a means for representing and communicating information. A considerable percentage...

The Art of Designing Embedded Systems, Second Edition

Newnes, 2008

For tens of thousands of years the human race used their muscles and the labor of animals to build a world that differed little from that known by all their ancestors. But in 1776 James Watt installed the fi rst of his improved steam engines in a commercial enterprise, kicking off the industrial revolution.

The 1800s were...

How to Do Everything with Photoshop CS2

McGraw-Hill, 2005

In this full-color, easy-to-use book, award-winning designer and best-selling author Colin Smith teaches the fundamentals of Photoshop then covers the more advanced features the software has to offer. Learn to use traditional drawing and painting tools ranging from pencils to airbrushes, then discover how to add and manipulate text, retouch photos,...

Coders at Work

Apress, 2009

Peter Seibel interviews 15 of the most interesting computer programmers alive today in Coders at Work, offering a brand-new companion volume to Apress’s highly acclaimed best-seller Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston. As the words “at work” suggest, Peter Seibel focuses on how his...

Low-Power Design of Nanometer FPGAs: Architecture and EDA (Systems on Silicon)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2009

Low-Power Design of Nanometer FPGAs Architecture and EDA is an invaluable reference for researchers and practicing engineers concerned with power-efficient, FPGA design. State-of-the-art power reduction techniques for FPGAs will be described and compared. These techniques can be applied at the circuit, architecture, and...

Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 12th International Conference, CICLing 2011

Springer, 2011

CICLing 2011 was the 12th Annual Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics. The CICLing conferences provide a wide-scope forum for the discussion of the art and craft of natural language processing research as well as the best practices in its applications.

This set of two books contains four invited...

Adobe Flash 11 Stage3D (Molehill) Game Programming Beginner's Guide

Packt Publishing, 2011

Adobe's Stage3D (previously codenamed Molehill) is a set of 3D APIs that has brought 3D to the Flash platform. Being a completely new technology, there were almost no resources to get you acquainted with this revolutionary platform, until now.

This book will show you how to make your very own next-gen 3D games in Flash. If...

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