This book contains 71 original, scientific articles that address state-of-the-art research related to scale space and variational methods for image processing and computer vision. Topics covered in the book range from mathematical analysis of both established and new models, fast numerical methods, image analysis, segmentation,...

Configure and manage SQL Server 2000 for peak performance and high availability using the undocumented administrative and troubleshooting techniques offered inside this focused reference. SQL Server expert Brian Knight gives you details on system and platform architecture, settings, security, file management, replication, automation,...

Real Analysis is the third volume in the Princeton Lectures in Analysis, a series of four textbooks that aim to present, in an integrated manner, the core areas of analysis. Here the focus is on the development of measure and integration theory, differentiation and integration, Hilbert spaces, and Hausdorff measure and fractals. This...

To help solve physical and engineering problems, mimetic or compatible algebraic discretization methods employ discrete constructs to mimic the continuous identities and theorems found in vector calculus. Mimetic Discretization Methods focuses on the recent mimetic discretization method co-developed by the first author. Based...