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Encyclopedia of Biometrics
This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive reference to topics in biometrics including concepts, modalities, algorithms, devices, systems, security, performance testing, applications and standardization. With an A–Z format and over 1400 entries, it provides easy access to relevant information on all aspects of biometrics for those seeking entry into this broad field. Entries are written by…
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- 978-1-4899-7488-4
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- 337 b/w illustrations, 486 illustrations in colour
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Multimodal Location Estimation of Videos and Images
This book presents an overview of the field of multimodal location estimation. The authors' aim is to describe the research results in this field in a unified way. The book describes fundamental methods of acoustic, visual, textual, social graph, and metadata processing as well as multimodal integration methods used for location estimation. In addition, the book covers benchmark metrics and exp…
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- 978-3-319-09860-9
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- XII, 191
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Multivariate Wavelet Frames
This book presents a systematic study of multivariate wavelet frames with matrix dilation, in particular, orthogonal and bi-orthogonal bases, which are a special case of frames. Further, it provides algorithmic methods for the construction of dual and tight wavelet frames with a desirable approximation order, namely compactly supported wavelet frames, which are commonly required by engineers. I…
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- 978-981-10-3204-2
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- XIII, 248
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- Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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Natural Disturbances and Historic Range of Variation
This book discusses the historic range of variation (HRV) in the types, frequencies, severities and scales of natural disturbances, and explores how they create heterogeneous structure within upland hardwood forests of the Central Hardwood Region (CHR). The book was written in response to a 2012 forest planning rule which requires that national forests to be managed to sustain ‘ecological int…
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- 978-3-319-21526-6
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- XI, 400
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- Managing Forest Ecosystems
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Modelling Public Transport Passenger Flows in the Era of Intelligent Transpor…
This book shows how transit assignment models can be used to describe and predict the patterns of network patronage in public transport systems. It provides a fundamental technical tool that can be employed in the process of designing, implementing and evaluating measures and/or policies to improve the current state of transport systems within given financial, technical and social constraints. …
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- 978-3-319-25080-9
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- XXXVII, 641
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- Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic
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Multiple Criteria Decision Making in Finance, Insurance and Investment
This book is devoted to recent developments and applications of multiple criteria decision aid tools in the field of finance, insurance and investment. It illustrates recent methods and procedures designed to solve problems related to finance, insurance and portfolio selection formulated through a mathematical programming framework and for which a large number of conflicting and incommensurable…
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- 978-3-319-21157-2
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- XIV, 272
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- Multiple Criteria Decision Making
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Multiple Classifier Systems:12th International Workshop, MCS 2015, Günzburg,…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, MCS 2015, held in Günzburg, Germany, in June/July 2015. The 19 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers address issues in multiple classifier systems and ensemble methods, including pattern recognition, machine learning, neural n…
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- 978-3-319-20247-1
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- X, 231
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Encounters with Popular Pasts Cultural Heritage and Popular Culture
This volume is based on the recognition that heritage is popular and popular culture is now readily transformed into heritage whose meanings and myths reshape social life and political and economic realities as well as re-make “tradition.” The papers in this volume consider: What does popular heritage look like? To whom does it speak? Is it active in dissolving class and cultural boundaries…
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- 978-3-319-13183-2
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- 1 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour
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Employee Engagement in Media Management Creativeness and Organizational Deve…
This book explores a major media management topic on the basis of case study research conducted in European, US and Brazilian media companies. More specifically, it examines the dynamics of employee engagement, aiming at organizational development through change. The book contemplates the discipline of Media Management through a management lens and focuses on the concept of employee involvement…
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- 978-3-319-16217-1
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- IX, 120
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Multidisciplinary Systems Engineering:Architecting the Design Process
This book presents Systems Engineering from a modern, multidisciplinary engineering approach, providing the understanding that all aspects of systems design, systems, software, test, security, maintenance and the full life-cycle must be factored in to any large-scale system design; up front, not factored in later. It lays out a step-by-step approach to systems-of-systems architectural design, d…
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- 978-3-319-22397-1
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- XXIII, 297
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