With the vast development of Internet capacity and speed, as well as wide adoptation
of media technologies in people’s daily life, a large amount of videos have
been surging, and need to be efficiently processed or organized based on interest.
The human visual perception system could, without difficulty, interpret and recognize...
Non-photorealistic computer graphics is a multidisciplinary field in the research
community, involving computer arts, computer graphics, computer
vision, digital image/video processing and visual cognitive psychology. It
aims at the computer generation of images and animations that are made
in part “by hand” in appearance,...
This is a book on the organization and architecture of theJava Virtual Machine(JVM), the
software at the heart of the Java language and is found inside most computers,Web browsers,
PDAs, and networked accessories. It also covers general principles of machine organization and
architecture, with llustrations from other popular (and...
This volume contains revised versions of selected papers presented at the biennial
meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG) of the Italian
Statistical Society, which was held in Macerata, September 12–14, 2007. Carlo
Lauro chaired the Scientific Programme Committee and Francesco Palumbo chaired
the Local...
A constraint is a restriction on a space of possibilities; it is a piece of knowledge that
narrows the scope of this space. Because constraints arise naturally in most areas of
human endeavor, they are the most general means for formulating regularities that
govern our computational, physical, biological, and social worlds. Some...
Data management has evolved over the years from being strictly associated with
database systems, through active databases, to being a topic that has grown
beyond the scope of a single field encompassing multiple aspects: distributed
systems, event-driven systems, and peer-to-peer and streaming systems. The
present collection of works,...
Environmental remote sensing is the measurement, from
a distance, of the spectral features of the Earth’s surface
and atmosphere. These measurements are normally
made by instruments carried by satellites or aircraft, and
are used to infer the nature and characteristics of the
land or sea surface, or of the atmosphere, at the...
What do people learn when they do not know that they are learning? Until recently all of the work in the area of implicit learning focused on empirical questions and methods. In this book, Axel Cleeremans explores unintentional learning from an information-processing perspective. He introduces a theoretical framework that unifies existing...
Systems analysis and design (SAND) is an evolving field that still represents the point where business and
technology intersects. As discussed in (Bajaj, Batra, Hevner, Parsons, & Siau, 2005), SAND represents
the core of management information systems (MIS) curricula but is underrepresented in the area of MIS
research. The...
One of the first times I ever encountered video and image processing was in a
semester project at my fourth year of studying. The aim of the project was to design
a system that automatically located the center and size of mushrooms in an image.
Given this information a robot should pick the mushrooms. I was intrigued by the...
The term “video compression” is now a common household name. The field of still
image and video compression has matured to the point that it is possible to watch
movies on a laptop computer. Such is the rapidity at which technology in various
fields has advanced and is advancing. However, this creates a need for some to...
When Gateway Design Automation, Inc. created Verilog in the mid-
1980's, the process of integrated circuit design was very different than it is
today. The role of Verilog, as well as its capability, has evolved since its
inception into today's SystemVerilog.
SystemVerilog language consists of three categories of...
