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Hybrid Quantum Metaheuristics

Theory and Applications

Edited by Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Mario Köppen, Elizabeth Behrman, Ivan Cruz-Aceves ...

Series series Quantum Machine Intelligence
The reference text introduces the principles of quantum mechanics to evolve hybrid metaheuristics-based optimization techniques useful for real world engineering and scientific problems.The text covers advances and trends in methodological approaches, theoretical studies, mathematical and applied techniques related to hybrid quantum metaheuristics and their applications to engineering problems. ... Read more

$68.99 USD

The reference text introduces the principles of quantum mechanics to evolve hybrid metaheuristics-based optimization techniques useful for real world engineering and scientific problems.The text covers advances and trends in methodological approaches, theoretical studies, mathematical and applied techniques related to hybrid quantum metaheuristics and their applications to engineering problems.
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Robotic Tactile Perception and Understanding

A Sparse Coding Method

by Huaping Liu, Fuchun Sun ...

This book introduces the challenges of robotic tactile perception and task understanding, and describes an advanced approach based on machine learning and sparse coding techniques. Further, a set of structured sparse coding models is developed to address the issues of dynamic tactile sensing. The book then proves that the proposed framework is effective in solving the problems of multi-finger ... Read more

$116.99 USD

This book introduces the challenges of robotic tactile perception and task understanding, and describes an advanced approach based on machine learning and sparse coding techniques. Further, a set of structured sparse coding models is developed to address the issues of dynamic tactile sensing. The book then proves that the proposed framework is effective in solving the problems of multi-finger
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Sparse Image and Signal Processing

Wavelets, Curvelets, Morphological Diversity

by Jalal M. Fadili, Jean-Luc Starck, Fionn Murtagh ...

This book presents the state of the art in sparse and multiscale image and signal processing, covering linear multiscale transforms, such as wavelet, ridgelet, or curvelet transforms, and non-linear multiscale transforms based on the median and mathematical morphology operators. Recent concepts of sparsity and morphological diversity are described and exploited for various problems such as ... Read more

$73.99 USD

This book presents the state of the art in sparse and multiscale image and signal processing, covering linear multiscale transforms, such as wavelet, ridgelet, or curvelet transforms, and non-linear multiscale transforms based on the median and mathematical morphology operators. Recent concepts of sparsity and morphological diversity are described and exploited for various problems such as
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Deep Learning in Object Detection and Recognition

Edited by Xiaoyue Jiang, Abdenour Hadid, Yanwei Pang, Eric Granger, Xiaoyi Feng ...

This book discusses recent advances in object detection and recognition using deep learning methods, which have achieved great success in the field of computer vision and image processing. It provides a systematic and methodical overview of the latest developments in deep learning theory and its applications to computer vision, illustrating them using key topics, including object detection, face ... Read more

$170.99 USD

This book discusses recent advances in object detection and recognition using deep learning methods, which have achieved great success in the field of computer vision and image processing. It provides a systematic and methodical overview of the latest developments in deep learning theory and its applications to computer vision, illustrating them using key topics, including object detection, face
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The Shroud of Turin

First Century after Christ!

by Giulio Fanti, Pierandrea Malfi ...

The Shroud of Turin is the most important and studied relic in the world. The many scientific studies on the relic until today have failed to provide conclusive answers about the identity of the enveloped man and the dynamics regarding the image impressed therein. This book not only addresses these issues in a scientific and objective manner but also leads the reader through new search paths. In ... Read more

$79.99 USD

The Shroud of Turin is the most important and studied relic in the world. The many scientific studies on the relic until today have failed to provide conclusive answers about the identity of the enveloped man and the dynamics regarding the image impressed therein. This book not only addresses these issues in a scientific and objective manner but also leads the reader through new search paths. In
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Developments in Soil Classification, Land Use Planning and Policy Implications

Innovative Thinking of Soil Inventory for Land Use Planning and Management of Land Resources

Edited by Shabbir A. Shahid, Faisal K. Taha, Mahmoud A. Abdelfattah ...

As the world’s population continues to expand, maintaining and indeed increasing agricultural productivity is more important than ever, though it is also more difficult than ever in the face of changing weather patterns that in some cases are leading to aridity and desertification. The absence of scientific soil inventories, especially in arid areas, leads to mistaken decisions about soil use that ... Read more

$188.99 USD

As the world’s population continues to expand, maintaining and indeed increasing agricultural productivity is more important than ever, though it is also more difficult than ever in the face of changing weather patterns that in some cases are leading to aridity and desertification. The absence of scientific soil inventories, especially in arid areas, leads to mistaken decisions about soil use that
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OTDR: Manuale Pratico di Base

by Simone Cavigli ...

Lo scopo che l'autore si è prefissato con questo manuale è stato quello di condividere le conoscenze acquisite nell'utilizzo dell'OTDR. Gran parte del lavoro è dedicato ad immagini di tracce OTDR, correlate a spiegazioni nel dettaglio di ogni evento, in quanto è necessario valutare più diagrammi possibili per ritenersi esperti di questo strumento. Ciascuna delle sezioni del manuale riporta esempi ... Read more

$10.99 USD

Lo scopo che l'autore si è prefissato con questo manuale è stato quello di condividere le conoscenze acquisite nell'utilizzo dell'OTDR. Gran parte del lavoro è dedicato ad immagini di tracce OTDR, correlate a spiegazioni nel dettaglio di ogni evento, in quanto è necessario valutare più diagrammi possibili per ritenersi esperti di questo strumento. Ciascuna delle sezioni del manuale riporta esempi
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Let's do IT

Business-IT-Alignment im Dialog erreichen

by Christa Weidner ...

Series series Xpert.press
Wertvolles Potenzial der IT bleibt zu Lasten des ROI in vielen Unternehmen ungenutzt. Doch sicherlich ist die Tatsache, dass die strategisch wichtige Unterstützung für das Business sich nicht voll entfalten kann, noch viel höher zu bewerten, da Marktanteile verloren oder gar nicht erst gewonnen werden. Der vorgestellte Ansatz geht davon aus, dass alles erforderliche Wissen für die beste Lösung ... Read more

$35.99 USD

Wertvolles Potenzial der IT bleibt zu Lasten des ROI in vielen Unternehmen ungenutzt. Doch sicherlich ist die Tatsache, dass die strategisch wichtige Unterstützung für das Business sich nicht voll entfalten kann, noch viel höher zu bewerten, da Marktanteile verloren oder gar nicht erst gewonnen werden. Der vorgestellte Ansatz geht davon aus, dass alles erforderliche Wissen für die beste Lösung
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Visual Object Tracking from Correlation Filter to Deep Learning

by Weiwei Xing, Weibin Liu, Jun Wang, Shunli Zhang, Lihui Wang, Yuxiang Yang, Bowen Song ...

The book focuses on visual object tracking systems and approaches based on correlation filter and deep learning. Both foundations and implementations have been addressed. The algorithm, system design and performance evaluation have been explored for three kinds of tracking methods including correlation filter based methods, correlation filter with deep feature based methods, and deep learning ... Read more

$134.99 USD

The book focuses on visual object tracking systems and approaches based on correlation filter and deep learning. Both foundations and implementations have been addressed. The algorithm, system design and performance evaluation have been explored for three kinds of tracking methods including correlation filter based methods, correlation filter with deep feature based methods, and deep learning
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Jumpstarting Raspberry Pi Vision

by James West, Sandy Antunes ...

Learn how to teach a Single Board Computer like a Raspberry Pi to recognize individual faces, using the latest Machine Learning techniques. ... Read more

$10.99 USD

Learn how to teach a Single Board Computer like a Raspberry Pi to recognize individual faces, using the latest Machine Learning techniques.
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Computational Intelligence in Biomedical Imaging

Edited by Kenji Suzuki ...

Computational Intelligence in Biomedical Imaging is a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art computational intelligence research and technologies in biomedical images with emphasis on biomedical decision making. Biomedical imaging offers useful information on patients’ medical conditions and clues to causes of their symptoms and diseases. Biomedical images, however, provide a large number ... Read more

$143.99 USD

Computational Intelligence in Biomedical Imaging is a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art computational intelligence research and technologies in biomedical images with emphasis on biomedical decision making. Biomedical imaging offers useful information on patients’ medical conditions and clues to causes of their symptoms and diseases. Biomedical images, however, provide a large number
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Computer Vision

Challenges, Trends, and Opportunities

Edited by Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad, Upal Mahbub, Matthew Turk, Richard Hartley ...

Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer Vision
Computer vision has made enormous progress in recent years, and its applications are multifaceted and growing quickly, while many challenges still remain. This book brings together a range of leading researchers to examine a wide variety of research directions, challenges, and prospects for computer vision and its applications.This book highlights various core challenges as well as solutions by ... Read more

$189.99 USD

Computer vision has made enormous progress in recent years, and its applications are multifaceted and growing quickly, while many challenges still remain. This book brings together a range of leading researchers to examine a wide variety of research directions, challenges, and prospects for computer vision and its applications.This book highlights various core challenges as well as solutions by
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Image Processing and Acquisition using Python

by Ravishankar Chityala, Sridevi Pudipeddi ...

Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC The Python Series
Image Processing and Acquisition using Python provides readers with a sound foundation in both image acquisition and image processing—one of the first books to integrate these topics together. By improving readers’ knowledge of image acquisition techniques and corresponding image processing, the book will help them perform experiments more effectively and cost efficiently as well as analyze and ... Read more

$72.99 USD

Image Processing and Acquisition using Python provides readers with a sound foundation in both image acquisition and image processing—one of the first books to integrate these topics together. By improving readers’ knowledge of image acquisition techniques and corresponding image processing, the book will help them perform experiments more effectively and cost efficiently as well as analyze and
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Machine Intelligence

Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing

Edited by Pethuru Raj, P Beaulah Soundarabai, Peter Augustine ...

Machines are being systematically empowered to be interactive and intelligent in their operations, offerings. and outputs. There are pioneering Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and tools. Machine and Deep Learning (ML/DL) algorithms, along with their enabling frameworks, libraries, and specialized accelerators, find particularly useful applications in computer and machine vision, human ... Read more

$77.99 USD

Machines are being systematically empowered to be interactive and intelligent in their operations, offerings. and outputs. There are pioneering Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and tools. Machine and Deep Learning (ML/DL) algorithms, along with their enabling frameworks, libraries, and specialized accelerators, find particularly useful applications in computer and machine vision, human
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Building Computer Vision Projects with OpenCV 4 and C++

Implement complex computer vision algorithms and explore deep learning and face detection

by David Millán Escrivá, Prateek Joshi, Vinícius G. Mendonça, Roy Shilkrot ...

Delve into practical computer vision and image processing projects and get up to speed with advanced object detection techniques and machine learning algorithmsKey FeaturesDiscover best practices for engineering and maintaining OpenCV projectsExplore important deep learning tools for image classificationUnderstand basic image matrix formats and filtersBook DescriptionOpenCV is one of the best open ... Read more

$31.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Delve into practical computer vision and image processing projects and get up to speed with advanced object detection techniques and machine learning algorithmsKey FeaturesDiscover best practices for engineering and maintaining OpenCV projectsExplore important deep learning tools for image classificationUnderstand basic image matrix formats and filtersBook DescriptionOpenCV is one of the best open
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Brief Notes in Advanced DSP

Fourier Analysis with MATLAB

by Artyom M. Grigoryan, Merughan Grigoryan ...

Based on the authors’ research in Fourier analysis, Brief Notes in Advanced DSP: Fourier Analysis with MATLAB® addresses many concepts and applications of digital signal processing (DSP). The included MATLAB® codes illustrate how to apply the ideas in practice.The book begins with the basic concept of the discrete Fourier transformation and its properties. It then describes lifting schemes, ... Read more

$73.99 USD

Based on the authors’ research in Fourier analysis, Brief Notes in Advanced DSP: Fourier Analysis with MATLAB® addresses many concepts and applications of digital signal processing (DSP). The included MATLAB® codes illustrate how to apply the ideas in practice.The book begins with the basic concept of the discrete Fourier transformation and its properties. It then describes lifting schemes,
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Circuits, Signals, and Speech and Image Processing

by Richard C. Dorf ...

Series series The Electrical Engineering Handbook
In two editions spanning more than a decade, The Electrical Engineering Handbook stands as the definitive reference to the multidisciplinary field of electrical engineering. Our knowledge continues to grow, and so does the Handbook. For the third edition, it has expanded into a set of six books carefully focused on a specialized area or field of study. Each book represents a concise yet definitive ... Read more

$234.99 USD

In two editions spanning more than a decade, The Electrical Engineering Handbook stands as the definitive reference to the multidisciplinary field of electrical engineering. Our knowledge continues to grow, and so does the Handbook. For the third edition, it has expanded into a set of six books carefully focused on a specialized area or field of study. Each book represents a concise yet definitive
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New Directions in Behavioral Biometrics

Edited by Khalid Saeed ...

Automatic biometrics recognition techniques are increasingly important in corporate and public security systems and have increased in methods due to rapid field development. This book discusses classic behavioral biometrics as well as collects the latest advances in techniques, theoretical approaches, and dynamic applications. This future-looking book is an important reference tool for researchers ... Read more

$66.99 USD

Automatic biometrics recognition techniques are increasingly important in corporate and public security systems and have increased in methods due to rapid field development. This book discusses classic behavioral biometrics as well as collects the latest advances in techniques, theoretical approaches, and dynamic applications. This future-looking book is an important reference tool for researchers
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Practical Handbook on Image Processing for Scientific and Technical Applications

by Bernd Jahne ...

The second edition of a bestseller, this book is a practical guide to image processing for the natural and technical sciences community. Students, practitioners, and researchers can gain immediate access to a sound basic knowledge of image processing by referencing general principles in the natural sciences. The book describes carefully selected algorithms in detail and demonstrates real-world ... Read more

$325.00 USD

The second edition of a bestseller, this book is a practical guide to image processing for the natural and technical sciences community. Students, practitioners, and researchers can gain immediate access to a sound basic knowledge of image processing by referencing general principles in the natural sciences. The book describes carefully selected algorithms in detail and demonstrates real-world
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The Handbook of Surface Imaging and Visualization

by Arthur T. Hubbard ...

This exciting new handbook investigates the characterization of surfaces. It emphasizes experimental techniques for imaging of solid surfaces and theoretical strategies for visualization of surfaces, areas in which rapid progress is currently being made. This comprehensive, unique volume is the ideal reference for researchers needing quick access to the latest developments in the field and an ... Read more

$400.00 USD

This exciting new handbook investigates the characterization of surfaces. It emphasizes experimental techniques for imaging of solid surfaces and theoretical strategies for visualization of surfaces, areas in which rapid progress is currently being made. This comprehensive, unique volume is the ideal reference for researchers needing quick access to the latest developments in the field and an
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Image and Video Processing in the Compressed Domain

by Jayanta Mukhopadhyay ...

Developing concepts from first principles, this book presents the fundamentals, properties, and applications of a variety of image transforms used in image and video compression. It introduces popular image and video compression algorithms, including JPEG2000 and MPEG-2, and elucidates the definitions and properties of various transforms, such as the DCT and DWT. The author discusses core image ... Read more

$115.99 USD

Developing concepts from first principles, this book presents the fundamentals, properties, and applications of a variety of image transforms used in image and video compression. It introduces popular image and video compression algorithms, including JPEG2000 and MPEG-2, and elucidates the definitions and properties of various transforms, such as the DCT and DWT. The author discusses core image
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Introduction to Image Processing and Analysis

by John C. Russ, J. Christian Russ ...

Image processing comprises a broad variety of methods that operate on images to produce another image. A unique textbook, Introduction to Image Processing and Analysis establishes the programming involved in image processing and analysis by utilizing skills in C compiler and both Windows and MacOS programming environments. The provided mathematical background illustrates the workings of algorithms ... Read more

$189.99 USD

Image processing comprises a broad variety of methods that operate on images to produce another image. A unique textbook, Introduction to Image Processing and Analysis establishes the programming involved in image processing and analysis by utilizing skills in C compiler and both Windows and MacOS programming environments. The provided mathematical background illustrates the workings of algorithms
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High Spatio-Temporal-Spectral Thermal Remote Sensing

Research and Applications

Edited by Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, Jeffrey C. Luvall, Simon Hook, Christine Lee ...

There have been numerous advances in thermal infrared (TIRS) sensors, analytical techniques and applications in recent years. A number of new satellite platforms have launched with TIR capabilities, and others will be ready for launch in the near future. This book builds upon the book Thermal Remote Sensing in Land Surface Processing and provides new and updated information on thermal remote ... Read more

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There have been numerous advances in thermal infrared (TIRS) sensors, analytical techniques and applications in recent years. A number of new satellite platforms have launched with TIR capabilities, and others will be ready for launch in the near future. This book builds upon the book Thermal Remote Sensing in Land Surface Processing and provides new and updated information on thermal remote
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Advanced Secure Optical Image Processing for Communications

by Muhammad Rafiq Abuturab, He Wenqi, Ali Mansour, Joseph Rosen, Naveen K. Nishchal, Zhengjun Liu, Professor Debesh Choudhury, Elizabet Pérez Cabré, Juan Manuel Vilardy, María Sagrario Millán, Peter Tsang Wai Ming, Wen Chen, Jun Li, Nihel Neji, Yassin Kortli ...

Series series IOP Series in Imaging Engineering
New image-processing tools and data-processing network systems have considerably increased the volume of transmitted information such as 2D and 3D images with high resolution. Thus, more complex networks and long processing times become necessary, and high image quality and transmission speeds are requested for an increasing number of applications. To satisfy these two requests, several, either ... Read more

$107.99 USD

New image-processing tools and data-processing network systems have considerably increased the volume of transmitted information such as 2D and 3D images with high resolution. Thus, more complex networks and long processing times become necessary, and high image quality and transmission speeds are requested for an increasing number of applications. To satisfy these two requests, several, either
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