Computer Vision and Applications, Concise Edition, offers a fresh approach to computer vision by regarding the whole process from image formation to measuring, recognition, or reacting as an integral process. Computer vision is understood as the host of techniques used to acquire, process, analyze, and understand complex,...
Joe Celko has been writing columns for the computer trade press and championing database programming techniques and ANSI/ISO standards via his newsgroup activity for 20 years.
In this complete revision and expansion of his first SQL Puzzles book, he challenges you with his trickiest puzzlesand then helps solve them with a variety of...
"In recent years, comprehensive texts have been written for several of the other major areas of Artificial Intelligence, including machine learning, natural-language processing, and constraint-satisfaction processing, but until now, the field of planning has been devoid of such a resource, despite the considerable number of advances in and the...
Our growing dependence on increasingly complex computer and software systems necessitates the development of formalisms, techniques, and tools for assessing functional properties of these systems. One such technique that has emerged in the last twenty years is model checking, which systematically (and automatically) checks whether a model of a...
This book is a comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art studies of seafloor slope instability and their societal implications. The volume captures the most recent and exciting scientific progress made in this research field.
As the world’s climate and energy needs change, the conditions under which slope instability...
A general scenario that has attracted a lot of attention for multimedia information retrieval is based on the query-by-example paradigm: retrieve all documents from a database containing parts or aspects similar to a given data fragment. However, multimedia objects, even though they are similar from a structural or semantic viewpoint, often reveal...
Compressed Video Communications addresses the compression and transmission of coded video streams over mobile IP networks. By analysing a broad spectrum of compression techniques and error resilience algorithms this book provides realistic solutions to the problems of quality degradation and transmission error.
This self-contained monograph covers the foundations of what is currently known about automata networks, giving the reader sufficient theoretical background to be at the forefront of research in many related areas. Alexandra Kireeva, Mathematical Reviews
Algebraic Theory of Automata Networks investigates automata networks as...
Semantic Models for Multimedia Database Searching and Browsing begins with the introduction of multimedia information applications, the need for the development of the multimedia database management systems (MDBMSs), and the important issues and challenges of multimedia systems. The temporal relations, the spatial relations, the spatio-temporal...
