The purpose of this book is to teach fundamentals of programming concepts and skills needed for basic problem solving, all using MATLABW as the vehicle. MATLAB is a powerful software package that has built-in functions to accomplish a diverse range of tasks, from mathematical operations to three-dimensional imaging. Additionally,...

This is a textbook for a first- or second-year graduate course for electrical and computer engineering (ECE) students in the area of digital image and video processing and coding. The course might be called Digital Image and Video Processing (DIVP) or some such, and has its heritage in the signal processing and communications areas of...

Computer vision seeks a process that starts with a noisy, ambiguous signal from a TV camera and ends with a high-level description of discrete objects located in 3-dimensional space and identified in a human classification. In this book we address this process at several levels. We first treat the low-level image-processing issues of...

Cognitive spatial concepts are qualitative in nature, i.e., they are based not so much on exact quantities but on comparisons between perceived magnitudes. We develop a qualitative model for the representation of spatial knowledge (in particular, of positional information about 2-dimensional projections) that is based only on locative...

Inkscape is frequently mentioned, and lauded, as one of the best examples of open-source software available today. It is a mature, feature-full and flexible product, thanks to a very dedicated developer community. The latest version, 0.48, adds new tools, such as the Airbrush (which many have longed for), and advanced path editing,...

IBM Cognos TM1 is one of the most popular multidimensional analysis tools used to build collaborative planning, budgeting, and forecasting solutions, as well as analytical and reporting applications. This cube-based technology does fast number crunching at the server end and helps end customers move away from manual and tedious planning,...

In 1985 I brought home a new shiny Commodore Amiga 1000, about one week after they were released. Coming with a whopping 512K of memory, programmable colormaps, a Motorola 68K CPU, and a modern multitasking operating system, it had “awesome” writ all over it. Metaphorically speaking, of course. I thought it might make a...

Oracle Essbase 11 Development Cookbook will help you learn the tools necessary for the development of Essbase databases in Oracle Essbase version 11.1.2.1. Here you will find over 90 recipes that explain everything from how to use a relational data model to building and loading an Essbase database in Essbase Studio. The book also goes over...