When we began creating Unity, we were just three programmers working on a beautiful little game. There weren't any good game engines that one could license without putting down wads of cash, so we created our own. We eventually decided that we enjoyed the challenge of making great tools even more than making games, and after some soul...

The papers in this volume were presented at the 20th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, held December 16–18, 2009, in Hawaii, USA. In response to the Call-for-Papers, 279 papers were submitted. Each paper received at least three reviews by either Program Committee members or experts selected by Program...

The production and the use of newer computing devices and platforms has led to a better understanding of the emerging computing paradigms. For many decades, computing systems have...

The need for compressed and coded representation and transmission of multimedia data has not rescinded as computer processing power, storage, and network bandwidth have increased. They have merely served to increase the demand for greater quality and increased functionality from all elements in the multimedia delivery and consumption...

Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK gets you up and running developing Kinect applications for your PC using Microsoft tools and the official SDK. You will have a working Kinect program by the end of the first chapter! The following chapters will open up the secrets of three-dimensional vision, skeleton...