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...
I’m delighted that Cengage Learning invited me to write this third edition
of Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter. The earlier books,
for versions X (pronounced “ten”) and 11 (pronounced “eleven”) were
greeted with very positive responses from users and critics, not just my
friends and...
The rapid advance of technology has changed and influenced how we think about gathering digital
evidence. Soon after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11,
2001, many young men and women volunteered to serve their country in different ways. For those
who did not choose the military, options included...
Welcome to Wedding Videography: Start to Finish, a resource to help you step confidently
into the field of wedding videography. This book is designed to step the novice wedding
videographer through the process of starting a wedding-videography business, filming a
wedding, editing the wedding footage, and outputting the final product...
What makes a good slide show great? In reality, most of us have an intuitive idea of how
to create a basic slide show, but without careful study, most people underestimate the
number of tricks that make a great slide show. When you’re ready to go beyond the basics
and do more with your shows, when you’re ready to create a...
Computers are very common today, and just about any computer is connected to a network. People with the knowledge and expertise to configure and maintain networks are needed in any organization.
IT administration starts with network administration in most organizations. If the computers can’t communicate on the network,...
Not that many years ago, wedding photographers
were known as “weekend
warriors; they were wedding photographers on wedding
days and worked at other full-time jobs the rest of
the week. The status of the wedding photographer—
both among other photographers and the public at
large—was very low. They were often...
You say you want a revolution? Well, sometimes the smallest things can create the
biggest changes. OpenGL ES originated that way—in a modest 3Dlabs project in
2001 that sought to define a standardized subset of OpenGL for a range of embedded
systems. It soon became clear that there was a widespread industry desire for a small...
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 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...
Electronic Commerce, Ninth Edition provides complete coverage of the key business and
technology elements of electronic commerce. The book does not assume that readers have
any previous electronic commerce knowledge or experience.
In 1998, having spent several years doing electronic commerce research, consulting,
and...
The goal of this book is to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge of educational
data mining (EDM). The primary goal of EDM is to use large-scale educational data
sets to better understand learning and to provide information about the learning process.
Although researchers have been studying human learning for over a...
