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Biometric Technology

Authentication, Biocryptography, and Cloud-Based Architecture

by Ravi Das ...

Most biometric books are either extraordinarily technical for technophiles or extremely elementary for the lay person. Striking a balance, this book is geared toward the business, IT, or security manager required to make purchasing, migration, or adoption decisions. Presenting technical background on the various biometric technologies and how they work, it looks at optimal application in various ... Read more

$45.99 USD

Most biometric books are either extraordinarily technical for technophiles or extremely elementary for the lay person. Striking a balance, this book is geared toward the business, IT, or security manager required to make purchasing, migration, or adoption decisions. Presenting technical background on the various biometric technologies and how they work, it looks at optimal application in various
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Two-Dimensional Materials in Nanophotonics

Developments, Devices, and Applications

Edited by Yuerui Lu ...

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted tremendous interest since the study of graphene in the early 21st century. With their thickness in the angstrom-to-nanometer range, 2D materials, including graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, phosphorene, silicene, and other inorganic and organic materials, can be an ideal platform to study fundamental many-body interactions because of reduced ... Read more

$149.99 USD

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted tremendous interest since the study of graphene in the early 21st century. With their thickness in the angstrom-to-nanometer range, 2D materials, including graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, phosphorene, silicene, and other inorganic and organic materials, can be an ideal platform to study fundamental many-body interactions because of reduced
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Ultrasonics

Fundamentals, Technologies, and Applications

by Dale Ensminger, Leonard J. Bond ...

Updated, revised, and restructured to reflect the latest advances in science and applications, the fourth edition of this best-selling industry and research reference covers the fundamental physical acoustics of ultrasonics and transducers, with a focus on piezoelectric and magnetostrictive modalities. It then discusses the full breadth of ultrasonics applications involving low power (sensing) and ... Read more

$70.99 USD

Updated, revised, and restructured to reflect the latest advances in science and applications, the fourth edition of this best-selling industry and research reference covers the fundamental physical acoustics of ultrasonics and transducers, with a focus on piezoelectric and magnetostrictive modalities. It then discusses the full breadth of ultrasonics applications involving low power (sensing) and
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Kubernetes from basic to advanced levels

by Alex Carvalho ...

In the world of modern software development, Kubernetes has emerged as a powerful tool for managing containerized applications. "Kubernetes: From Basic to Advanced Levels" is an essential guide that takes readers on a comprehensive journey through this popular open-source platform. Whether you are a beginner looking to understand the basics or an experienced user aiming to master advanced concepts ... Read more

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In the world of modern software development, Kubernetes has emerged as a powerful tool for managing containerized applications. "Kubernetes: From Basic to Advanced Levels" is an essential guide that takes readers on a comprehensive journey through this popular open-source platform. Whether you are a beginner looking to understand the basics or an experienced user aiming to master advanced concepts
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Description Approaches and Automated Generalization Algorithms for Groups of Map Objects

by Haowen Yan ...

This book focuses on the generalization of map features, providing descriptions and classifying groups of map objects into six categories: point clusters, groups of contours, road networks, river networks, continuous areal features and discrete areal features. Discussing the methods and algorithms in map generalization in equal measure, it also describes the approaches for describing map features ... Read more

$143.99 USD

This book focuses on the generalization of map features, providing descriptions and classifying groups of map objects into six categories: point clusters, groups of contours, road networks, river networks, continuous areal features and discrete areal features. Discussing the methods and algorithms in map generalization in equal measure, it also describes the approaches for describing map features
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Handwritten Historical Document Analysis, Recognition, And Retrieval - State Of The Art And Future Trends

by Andreas Fischer, Marcus Liwicki, Rolf (Jurg) Ingold ...

Series Book 89 - Series In Machine Perception And Artificial Intelligence
In recent years, libraries and archives all around the world have increased their efforts to digitize historical manuscripts. To integrate the manuscripts into digital libraries, pattern recognition and machine learning methods are needed to extract and index the contents of the scanned images.The unique compendium describes the outcome of the HisDoc research project, a pioneering attempt to study ... Read more

$70.99 USD

In recent years, libraries and archives all around the world have increased their efforts to digitize historical manuscripts. To integrate the manuscripts into digital libraries, pattern recognition and machine learning methods are needed to extract and index the contents of the scanned images.The unique compendium describes the outcome of the HisDoc research project, a pioneering attempt to study
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Image Processing and Machine Learning, Volume 2

Advanced Topics in Image Analysis and Machine Learning

by Erik Cuevas, Alma Nayeli Rodríguez ...

Image processing and machine learning are used in conjunction to analyze and understand images. Where image processing is used to pre-process images using techniques such as filtering, segmentation, and feature extraction, machine learning algorithms are used to interpret the processed data through classification, clustering, and object detection. This book serves as a textbook for students and ... Read more

$64.99 USD

Image processing and machine learning are used in conjunction to analyze and understand images. Where image processing is used to pre-process images using techniques such as filtering, segmentation, and feature extraction, machine learning algorithms are used to interpret the processed data through classification, clustering, and object detection. This book serves as a textbook for students and
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Ubiquitous Point Cloud

Theory, Model, and Applications

by Bisheng Yang, Zhen Dong, Fuxun Liang, Xiaoxin Mi ...

Series series Imaging Science
Point clouds from LiDAR and photogrammetry are vital and vast sources of geospatial information besides remote sensing imagery. This book provides the latest theory and methodology for point cloud processing with AI to better serve earth observation, 3D vision, autonomous driving, smart city, and geospatial information applications. It covers various aspects of 3D geospatial information, including ... Read more

$179.99 USD

Point clouds from LiDAR and photogrammetry are vital and vast sources of geospatial information besides remote sensing imagery. This book provides the latest theory and methodology for point cloud processing with AI to better serve earth observation, 3D vision, autonomous driving, smart city, and geospatial information applications. It covers various aspects of 3D geospatial information, including
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Swarm Optimization for Biomedical Applications

Edited by Saurav Mallik, Zhongming Zhao, Nanda Dulal Jana, Prabhu Jayagopal, Tapas Si, Sandeep Kumar Mathivanan ...

Biomedical engineering is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary area that is providing solutions to biological and medical problems and improving the healthcare system. It is connected to various applications like protein structure prediction, computer-aided drug design, and computerized medical diagnosis based on image and signal data, which accomplish low-cost, accurate, and reliable solutions for ... Read more

$77.99 USD

Biomedical engineering is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary area that is providing solutions to biological and medical problems and improving the healthcare system. It is connected to various applications like protein structure prediction, computer-aided drug design, and computerized medical diagnosis based on image and signal data, which accomplish low-cost, accurate, and reliable solutions for
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Handbook of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging for Physicists

Radiopharmaceuticals and Clinical Applications, Volume III

by Michael Ljungberg ...

Series series Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
This state-of-the-art handbook, the third and final in a series that provides medical physicists with a comprehensive overview into the field of nuclear medicine, focuses on highlighting the production and application of radiopharmaceuticals. With this, the book also describes the chemical composition of these compounds, as well as some of the main clinical applications where radiopharmaceuticals ... Read more

$68.99 USD

This state-of-the-art handbook, the third and final in a series that provides medical physicists with a comprehensive overview into the field of nuclear medicine, focuses on highlighting the production and application of radiopharmaceuticals. With this, the book also describes the chemical composition of these compounds, as well as some of the main clinical applications where radiopharmaceuticals
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Applied Machine Learning on Sensing Technologies

Edited by Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad, Anton Nijholt, Md Abdus Samad Kamal, Björn Schuller, Matthew A. Turk ...

Series series Ubiquitous Computing, Healthcare and Well-being
This book explores applied machine learning and deep learning in the field of sensing, vision and sensor-based applications. It includes a series of methodologies, exploration of new applications, presentations on relevant datasets, challenging applications, guidelines, ideas and future scopes. Edited by leading experts in these arenas, the book will be of great interest to academic researchers, ... Read more

$207.99 USD

This book explores applied machine learning and deep learning in the field of sensing, vision and sensor-based applications. It includes a series of methodologies, exploration of new applications, presentations on relevant datasets, challenging applications, guidelines, ideas and future scopes. Edited by leading experts in these arenas, the book will be of great interest to academic researchers,
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Smart Distributed Embedded Systems for Healthcare Applications

Edited by Preeti Nagrath, Jafar A. Alzubi, Bhawna Singla, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, A. K. Verma ...

Series series Explainable AI (XAI) for Engineering Applications
This book discusses the applications and optimization of emerging smart technologies in the field of healthcare. It further explains different modeling scenarios of the latest technologies in the healthcare system and compares the results to better understand the nature and progress of diseases in the human body, which would ultimately lead to early diagnosis and better treatment and cure of ... Read more

$72.99 USD

This book discusses the applications and optimization of emerging smart technologies in the field of healthcare. It further explains different modeling scenarios of the latest technologies in the healthcare system and compares the results to better understand the nature and progress of diseases in the human body, which would ultimately lead to early diagnosis and better treatment and cure of
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Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

Principles and Applications

by Marcus Borengasser, William S. Hungate, Russell Watkins ...

Series series Remote Sensing Applications Series
Land management issues, such as mapping tree species, recognizing invasive plants, and identifying key geologic features, require an understanding of complex technical issues before the best decisions can be made. Hyperspectral remote sensing is one the technologies that can help with reliable detection and identification. Presenting the fundamenta ... Read more

$110.99 USD

Land management issues, such as mapping tree species, recognizing invasive plants, and identifying key geologic features, require an understanding of complex technical issues before the best decisions can be made. Hyperspectral remote sensing is one the technologies that can help with reliable detection and identification. Presenting the fundamenta
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Digital Image Processing

An Algorithmic Approach with MATLAB

by Uvais Qidwai, C.H. Chen ...

Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Textbooks in Computing
Avoiding heavy mathematics and lengthy programming details, Digital Image Processing: An Algorithmic Approach with MATLAB® presents an easy methodology for learning the fundamentals of image processing. The book applies the algorithms using MATLAB®, without bogging down students with syntactical and debugging issues.One chapter can typically be completed per week, with each chapter divided into ... Read more

$108.99 USD

Avoiding heavy mathematics and lengthy programming details, Digital Image Processing: An Algorithmic Approach with MATLAB® presents an easy methodology for learning the fundamentals of image processing. The book applies the algorithms using MATLAB®, without bogging down students with syntactical and debugging issues.One chapter can typically be completed per week, with each chapter divided into
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Computational Topology for Biomedical Image and Data Analysis

Theory and Applications

by Rodrigo Rojas Moraleda, Wei Xiong, Niels Halama, Nektarios Valous ...

Series series Focus Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
This book provides an accessible yet rigorous introduction to topology and homology focused on the simplicial space. It presents a compact pipeline from the foundations of topology to biomedical applications. It will be of interest to medical physicists, computer scientists, and engineers, as well as undergraduate and graduate students interested in this topic.Features:Presents a practical guide ... Read more

$34.99 USD

This book provides an accessible yet rigorous introduction to topology and homology focused on the simplicial space. It presents a compact pipeline from the foundations of topology to biomedical applications. It will be of interest to medical physicists, computer scientists, and engineers, as well as undergraduate and graduate students interested in this topic.Features:Presents a practical guide
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Supervised and Unsupervised Pattern Recognition

Feature Extraction and Computational Intelligence

Edited by Evangelia Miche Tzanakou ...

Series series Industrial Electronics
There are many books on neural networks, some of which cover computational intelligence, but none that incorporate both feature extraction and computational intelligence, as Supervised and Unsupervised Pattern Recognition does. This volume describes the application of a novel, unsupervised pattern recognition scheme to the classification of various types of waveforms and images. This substantial ... Read more

$233.99 USD

There are many books on neural networks, some of which cover computational intelligence, but none that incorporate both feature extraction and computational intelligence, as Supervised and Unsupervised Pattern Recognition does. This volume describes the application of a novel, unsupervised pattern recognition scheme to the classification of various types of waveforms and images. This substantial
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Handbook of Image-based Security Techniques

by Shivendra Shivani, Suneeta Agarwal, Jasjit S. Suri ...

This book focuses on image based security techniques, namely visual cryptography, watermarking, and steganography. This book is divided into four sections. The first section explores basic to advanced concepts of visual cryptography.The second section of the book covers digital image watermarking including watermarking algorithms, frameworks for modeling watermarking systems, and the evaluation of ... Read more

$72.99 USD

This book focuses on image based security techniques, namely visual cryptography, watermarking, and steganography. This book is divided into four sections. The first section explores basic to advanced concepts of visual cryptography.The second section of the book covers digital image watermarking including watermarking algorithms, frameworks for modeling watermarking systems, and the evaluation of
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Global Land-Ocean Geospatial Applications

Mapping and Surveying with Remote Sensing and GIS

Edited by Charla M. Burnett, Biswajeet Pradhan ...

This book facilitates a deeper understanding of the diverse applications of geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) in land and ocean mapping and surveying across different fields and regions, bringing forward the best practices and innovations happening worldwide. It includes a variety of analytical methodologies used for managing different landscapes and ocean sites and ... Read more

$179.99 USD

This book facilitates a deeper understanding of the diverse applications of geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) in land and ocean mapping and surveying across different fields and regions, bringing forward the best practices and innovations happening worldwide. It includes a variety of analytical methodologies used for managing different landscapes and ocean sites and
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From Visual Surveillance to Internet of Things

Technology and Applications

Edited by Lavanya Sharma, Pradeep K. Garg ...

From Visual Surveillance to Internet of Things: Technology and Applications is an invaluable resource for students, academicians and researchers to explore the utilization of Internet of Things with visual surveillance and its underlying technologies in different application areas. Using a series of present and future applications – business insights, indoor-outdoor securities, smart grids, human ... Read more

$77.99 USD

From Visual Surveillance to Internet of Things: Technology and Applications is an invaluable resource for students, academicians and researchers to explore the utilization of Internet of Things with visual surveillance and its underlying technologies in different application areas. Using a series of present and future applications – business insights, indoor-outdoor securities, smart grids, human
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Quantencomputing für Dummies

by Hans-Jurgen Steffens, Christian Zöllner, Kathrin Schäfer ...

Series series Für Dummies
Quantencomputing könnte die Informatik wie wir sie heute kennen revolutionieren. Die Möglichkeiten dieser Technologie sind enorm. Aber was steckt eigentlich dahinter? Mit diesem Buch führen Sie die Autoren so verständlich wie möglich in dieses komplexe Thema ein. Sie erklären Ihnen was es mit dem Quantencomputing überhaupt auf sich hat und erläutern die mathematischen und physikalischen Modelle, ... Read more

$24.95 USD

Quantencomputing könnte die Informatik wie wir sie heute kennen revolutionieren. Die Möglichkeiten dieser Technologie sind enorm. Aber was steckt eigentlich dahinter? Mit diesem Buch führen Sie die Autoren so verständlich wie möglich in dieses komplexe Thema ein. Sie erklären Ihnen was es mit dem Quantencomputing überhaupt auf sich hat und erläutern die mathematischen und physikalischen Modelle,
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Digital Waveform Generation

by Pete Symons ...

This concise overview of digital signal generation will introduce you to powerful, flexible and practical digital waveform generation techniques. These techniques, based on phase-accumulation and phase-amplitude mapping, will enable you to generate sinusoidal and arbitrary real-time digital waveforms to fit your desired waveshape, frequency, phase offset and amplitude, and to design bespoke ... Read more

$81.99 USD

This concise overview of digital signal generation will introduce you to powerful, flexible and practical digital waveform generation techniques. These techniques, based on phase-accumulation and phase-amplitude mapping, will enable you to generate sinusoidal and arbitrary real-time digital waveforms to fit your desired waveshape, frequency, phase offset and amplitude, and to design bespoke
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Human Walking in Virtual Environments

Perception, Technology, and Applications

Edited by Frank Steinicke, Yon Visell, Jennifer Campos, Anatole Lécuyer ...

This book presents a survey of past and recent developments on human walking in virtual environments with an emphasis on human self-motion perception, the multisensory nature of experiences of walking, conceptual design approaches, current technologies, and applications. The use of Virtual Reality and movement simulation systems is becoming increasingly popular and more accessible to a wide ... Read more

$143.99 USD

This book presents a survey of past and recent developments on human walking in virtual environments with an emphasis on human self-motion perception, the multisensory nature of experiences of walking, conceptual design approaches, current technologies, and applications. The use of Virtual Reality and movement simulation systems is becoming increasingly popular and more accessible to a wide
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Applied Mathematics

Data Compression, Spectral Methods, Fourier Analysis, Wavelets, and Applications

by Charles K. Chui, Qingtang Jiang ...

Series Book 2 - Mathematics Textbooks for Science and Engineering
This textbook, apart from introducing the basic aspects of applied mathematics, focuses on recent topics such as information data manipulation, information coding, data approximation, data dimensionality reduction, data compression, time-frequency and time scale bases, image manipulation, and image noise removal. The methods treated in more detail include spectral representation and “frequency” of ... Read more

$80.99 USD

This textbook, apart from introducing the basic aspects of applied mathematics, focuses on recent topics such as information data manipulation, information coding, data approximation, data dimensionality reduction, data compression, time-frequency and time scale bases, image manipulation, and image noise removal. The methods treated in more detail include spectral representation and “frequency” of
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Fundamentals of Computer Vision

by Wesley E. Snyder, Hairong Qi ...

Computer vision has widespread and growing application including robotics, autonomous vehicles, medical imaging and diagnosis, surveillance, video analysis, and even tracking for sports analysis. This book equips the reader with crucial mathematical and algorithmic tools to develop a thorough understanding of the underlying components of any complete computer vision system and to design such ... Read more

$136.99 USD

Computer vision has widespread and growing application including robotics, autonomous vehicles, medical imaging and diagnosis, surveillance, video analysis, and even tracking for sports analysis. This book equips the reader with crucial mathematical and algorithmic tools to develop a thorough understanding of the underlying components of any complete computer vision system and to design such
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