This book is a must-have for anyone serious about rendering in real time. With the announcement of new ray tracing APIs and hardware to support them, developers can easily create real-time applications with ray tracing as a core component. As ray tracing on the GPU becomes faster, it will play a more central role in real-time rendering. Ray Tracing Gems provides key building blocks for develope…
This book guides its audience—which can range from novice users to experts— though a 55-chapter tour of Google Earth Engine. A sequenced and diverse set of lab materials, this is the product of more than a year of effort from more than a hundred individuals, collecting new exercises from professors, undergraduates, master’s students, PhD students, postdocs, and independent consultants. …
Marken sind allgegenwärtig und doch so vielfältig. Es gibt sie in allen Ausprägungen und Formen: laut und schrill, leise und bedacht, inspirierend und motivierend, vertrauenswürdig und verlässlich. Sie transportieren Produkteigenschaften, zeichnen Qualität aus und vermindern das Kaufrisiko. Marken öffnen aber auch die Tür in weitläufige Gedankenwelten: Man schaut ARD und ist dabei,…
This open access book delves into the fundamental principles and cutting-edge techniques of plenoptic imaging and processing. Derived from the Latin words "plenus" (meaning "full") and "optic," plenoptic imaging offers a transformative approach to optical imaging. Unlike conventional systems that rely solely on the pinhole camera model to capture spatial information, plenoptic imaging aims to d…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Spatio-temporal Image Analysis for Longitudinal and Time-Series Image Data, STIA 2014, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2014 in Boston, MA, USA, in September 2014. The 7 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. They are organized in …
This book describes the basic principles underlying the generation, coding, transmission and enhancement of speech and audio signals, including advanced statistical and machine learning techniques for speech and speaker recognition with an overview of the key innovations in these areas. Key research undertaken in speech coding, speech enhancement, speech recognition, emotion recognition and spe…
This book presents various contributions of splines to signal and image processing from a unified perspective that is based on the Zak transform (ZT). It expands the methodology from periodic splines, which were presented in the first volume, to non-periodic splines. Together, these books provide a universal toolbox accompanied by MATLAB software for manipulating polynomial and discrete splines…
An investigation of the computational turn in visual culture, centered on the entangled politics and pleasures of data and images.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Subtitle on dust jacket cover: Creating stakeholder value and competitive advantage.Core strategies for creating a corporate reputation that will provide a competitive advantage in the marketplace: a back-to-basics approach.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This book formalizes and analyzes the relations between multiple views of a scene from the perspective of various types of geometries. A key feature is that it considers Euclidean and affine geometries as special cases of projective geometry.Over the last forty years, researchers have made great strides in elucidating the laws of image formation, processing, and understanding by animals, humans…