Video search engines enable users to take advantage of constantly growing video resources like, for example, video on demand, Internet television and YouTube, for a wide variety of applications including entertainment, education and communications.
David Gibbon and Zhu Liu describe the current state of video search engine technology and inform...
Before the invention of the Internet and the creation of the Web, the vast majority of human
conversations were in spoken form, with the only notable, but extremely limited, exception being
epistolary exchanges. Some important spoken conversations, such as criminal trials and political
debates (e.g., Hansard, the transcripts of...
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are finding increasing use in everyday life. Many of the commonplace environments where the systems are used are noisy, for example users calling up a voice search system from a busy cafeteria or a street. This can result in degraded speech recordings and adversely affect the performance of speech...
A comprehensive design guide to all aspects of architectural acoustics--from enhanced performance spaces to sound-proofing multifamily housing to environmental considerations.
Architectural Acoustics presents a comprehensive technical overview of the field at a level suitable for working practitioners as well as advanced...
Hello App Inventor! introduces creative young readers to the world of mobile programming—no experience required! Featuring more than 30 fun invent-it-yourself projects, this full-color, fun-to-read book starts with the building blocks you need to create a few practice apps. Then you'll...
Once little more than a glorified porn filter, China’s ‘Great Firewall’ has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world. Even as the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and any attempts to organize outside the official...
In the eye-blink that has elapsed since the turn of the millennium, the lives of those of us who work with information have been utterly transformed. Pretty well all we need to know is on the web; if not today, then tomorrow. Its where we learn and play, shop and do business, keep up with old friends and meet new ones. What makes it possible for us...
Those creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 choose Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team at Adobe Press.
The 22 project-based lessons in this book show readers step-by-step the key techniques for working in Premiere Pro...
This book is based in part on my earlier work. Pattern Recognition: Applications to Large Data-Set Problems, published by Marcel Dekker: Inc. in 1984. It was originally intended that this volume be a second editon of that work. However, due to the tremendous
amount of material added it seemed that a new title. Pattern Recognition...
This book illustrates the commonly used and novel approaches of audio watermarking for copyrights protection. The author examines the theoretical and practical step by step guide to the topic of data hiding in audio signal such as music, speech, broadcast. The book covers new techniques developed by the authors are fully explained and MATLAB...