The field of machine perception concerns the building of machines
that sense and interpret their environments. This book is about visual
perception. Potential applications for such systems include tasks such as
automation of industrial processes of inspection and assembly,
automated medical x-ray diagnosis, vehicle guidance and...
Welcome to Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012 Essentials, based on the Revit Architecture 2012 release.
What you are holding in your hands is the first Revit book in a new series. When we authors first sat down to learn Revit (eons ago), each of us was put into a room with a trainer, and over the course of four days, we clicked...
In From Computer to Brain: Foundations of Computational Neuroscience,
William Lytton provides a gentle but rigorous introduction to the art
of modeling neurons and neural systems. It is an accessible entry to the
methods and approaches used to model the brain at many di erent levels,
ranging from synapses and dendrites to neurons and...
Welcome to Drawing For Dummies, 2nd Edition, a book that focuses on
the basics of drawing for beginning artists but also includes plenly of
challenges for more experienced artists.
Most people begin to draw as soon as Ihcy can hold a crayon and then ÑÑлÑ
tinue drawing enthusiastically throughout childhood. Some...
It has been my experience as a .Net trainer and lead programmer that most people do not have trouble
picking up the syntax of the language. What perplexes and frustrates many people are the higher-level
concepts of object-oriented programming methodology and design. To compound the problem, most
introductory programming books and...
BECAUSE YOU ARE READING THIS, I assume that you share my interest for Microsoft SharePoint. In
my case it is more than an interest, it is a passion! For more than 30 years, I have been working with
computers, from assembler programming to complex software solutions. For more than 10 years my
whole world was e - mail (my personal car...
Welcome to Starting Out with C++: Early Objects, 7th
Edition. This book is intended for use in a two-term or
three-term C++ programming sequence, or an
accelerated one-term course. Students new to
programming, as well those with prior course work in
other languages, will find this text beneficial. The
fundamentals...
Welcome to the Microsoft Official Academic Course (MOAC) program for Windows Server
Administration Fundamentals. MOAC represents the collaboration between Microsoft
Learning and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. publishing company. Microsoft and Wiley teamed up
to produce a series of textbooks that deliver compelling and innovative teaching...
Late last year, in 2008, I was fi nishing work on another book called Electricity
for the Entertainment Electrician & Technician when Danielle Monroe, one of
the many wonderful people at Focal Press, sent me an email. Almost as an
afterthought—one of those oh-by-the-ways—she mentioned that we should
start work on...
Welcome to the new Wiley Digital Field Guide for the Canon Speedlite System.
Whether you are holding this book or your new Canon Speedlite in your hands,
you are holding a fantastic tool that will assist you in creating awesome photographs
that you will be proud to display and share with your family and friends. Much has
changed in...
In today's digital world, images and videos are everywhere, and with the advent of powerful
and affordable computing devices, it has never been easier to create sophisticated imaging
applications. Plentiful software tools and libraries manipulating images and videos are
offered, but for anyone who wishes to develop his/her own...
An open source content management system (CMS) like WordPress can be a
great resource for anyone who would like to create a blog. It used to be that, to put
content online, you had to manually assemble all the files and develop a fair
amount of technical expertise; but a CMS can automate and significantly simplify
many parts of the...
