Deformable surface 3D reconstruction from monocular images is an active area of research in the
Computer Vision community. This encompasses recovering both the shape of thin objects that can
be treated as surfaces without perceptible thickness and the visible envelope of fully 3D objects.
Whereas this may seem easy for a human...
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As a member of the Microsoft Office suite, Access 2000 is frequently deployed by users in need of immediate database solutions. Teach Yourself Access 2000 in 24 Hours helps the complete Access 2000 neophyte gain proficiency with this powerful--yet difficult-to-learn--data management tool.
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of scanning optical microscopy for scientists and engineers. These microscopes have been designed to overcome the problems associated with submicrometer imaging of complex three-dimensional structures. The book concentrates mainly on two of these instruments: the confocal scanning optical...
Over the last two years, Google’s Android operating system (OS) has gone from a virtually
unknown open source solution to the current mobile OS market leader among all mobile
handsets, with over one-third of the market share, and it’s still climbing rapidly. Android has even
started to dominate the tablet OS marketplace, and...
The fundamental concept of the book is to explain how to make thin film solar cells from the abundant solar energy materials by low cost. The proper and optimized growth conditions are very essential while sandwiching thin films to make solar cell otherwise secondary phases play a role to undermine the working function of solar cells. The...
This book results from a meeting that took place in Cercedilla, Madrid, Spain in
March 2002. The meeting was about new ideas that could lead us to better use
of the solar spectrum with the ultimate goal of achieving superior photovoltaic
devices and, consequently, a reduction in their price. The meeting, despite being
short,...
An intimate true account of Americans at war, Days of Steel Rain is an epic drama about an unlikely group of men forced to work together in the face of an increasingly desperate enemy during the final year of World War II.
Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of...
Have you noticed that the majority of .NET books seem intent on hiding you from real-world code? You can buy a 1,500-page draft excluder, study it intensively for a month, and still be none the wiser as to how to write basic programs. This book isn’t like that.
Within these pages, you’ll learn how to create exciting new...
This book will guide Photovoltaics researchers in a new way of thinking about harvesting light energy from all wavelengths of the solar spectrum. It closes the gap between general solar cells books and photovoltaics journal articles, by focusing on the latest developments in our understanding of solid-state device physics. The material...
As we progress into the second decade of the 21st century, it’s becoming increasingly
obvious how the computers of the previous 30 years have begun to look not just old but archaic.
The massive CRT monitors of the 1980s and 1990s have given way to pencil-thin displays of the
2000s. The...
Electromagnetic wave scattering is an active, interdisciplinary area of research with myriad practical applications in fields ranging from atomic physics to medical imaging to geoscience and remote sensing. In particular, the subject of wave scattering by random discrete scatterers and rough surfaces presents great theoretical challenges due to the...
