A single hype is not enough to change the world. But multiple hypes together can
change it as long as they are part of a bigger trend.
This book discusses more than one hyped technology: cloud computing, NoSQL, and
HTML5. The technologies in this book combine well with other hyped technologies:
functional...
Signal processing has been playing an increasingly important role in remote sensing,
though most remote sensing literatures are concerned with remote sensing images. Many
data received by remote sensors such as microwave and geophysical sensors, are signals or
waveforms, which can be processed by analog and digital signal...
Computer vision as a field is an intellectual frontier. Like any frontier, it is
exciting and disorganized, and there is often no reliable authority to appeal to.
Many useful ideas have no theoretical grounding, and some theories are useless
in practice; developed areas are widely scattered, and...
Today, images and video are everywhere. Online photo-sharing sites and social networks
have them in the billions. Search engines will produce images of just about any
conceivable query. Practically all phones and computers come with built-in cameras.
It is not uncommon for people to have many gigabytes of photos and...
Over the past decade, regular expressions have experienced a remarkable rise in popularity.
Today, all the popular programming languages include a powerful regular expression
library, or even have regular expression support built right into the language.
Many developers have taken advantage of these regular...
This lecture summarizes the material in a tutorial we gave at AAAI2008 [Grauman and Leibe,
2008]1. Our goal is to overview the types of methods that figure most prominently in object
recognition research today, in order to give a survey of the concepts, algorithms, and representations
that one might use to build a...
Microsoft SQL Server implements extensive support for location-based data. Pro Spatial with SQL Server 2012 introduces SQL Server’s spatial feature set, and covers everything you'll need to know to store, manipulate, and analyze information about the physical location of objects in space. You’ll learn about the...
Intelligent decision support relies on techniques from a variety of disciplines, including artificial intelligence and database management systems. Most of the existing literature neglects the relationship between these disciplines. By integrating AI and DBMS, Computational Intelligence for Decision Support produces what other texts...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA 2012, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in September 2012 in the context of the combined conference ALGO 2012. The 69 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 285 initial submissions: 56 out of 231 in track design...
The field of multidimensional data structures is large and growing very quickly. Here, for the first time, is a thorough treatment of multidimensional point data, object and image-based representations, intervals and small rectangles, and high-dimensional datasets. The book includes a thorough introduction; a comprehensive survey to spatial...
The Web emerges as both a technical and a social phenomenon. It affects business,
everybody's life and leads to considerable social implications. In this scenario, Web
personalization arises as a powerful tool to meet the needs of daily users and make the
Web a friendlier environment. Web personalization includes any action that...
