Graphical and digital media applications

History of the Book The last three decades have witnessed an explosive development in - tegrated circuit fabrication technologies.

Probably the most interesting and influential class to the authors about video compression was EE E6830 (Digital Image Processing and Understanding) at Columbia University in 1995, offered by adjunct Professors Dr.

Biometrics is a rapidly evolving field with applications ranging from accessing one's computer to gaining entry into a country.

In recent years, a new class of applications has come to the forefront { p- marily due to the advancement in our ability to collect data from multitudes of devices, and process them e ciently.

Traditionally,signalprocessingtechniqueslayatthefoundationofmultimedia data processing and analysis.

New to this edition is an introduction to embedded operating systems for SOPC designs.

Design for Manufacturability and Statistical Design: A Constructive Approach provides a thorough treatment of the causes of variability, methods for statistical data characterization, and techniques for modeling, analysis, and optimization of integrated circuits to improve yield.

This book carefully details design tools and techniques for realizing low power and energy efficiency in a highly productive design methodology.

"e;Gratzer's book is a solution.

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Assertion-based IP is much more than a comprehensive set of related assertions.

Dynamics of Microelectromechanical Systems is a systematic overview of the dynamics of MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), microstructures, and their responses.

With dramatic increases in on-chip packing densities, routing congestion has become a major problem in integrated circuit design, impacting convergence, performance, and yield, and complicating the synthesis of critical interc- nects.

Semantic Web: Real-World Applications from Industry offers a glimpse into the opening door of semantic technologies by means of concentrated examples of semantic applications in real business environments.

Company network administrators are compelled today to aggressively pursue a robust network security regime.

Current-mode circuits, where information is represented by the branch currents of the circuits rather than the nodal voltages as of voltage-mode circuits, possess many unique and attractive characteristics over their voltage-mode counterparts including a small nodal time constant, high current swing in the presence of a low supply voltage, reduced distor- tion, a low input impedance, a high output impedance, less sensitive to switching noise, and better ESD immunity.

Data Streams: Models and Algorithms primarily discusses issues related to the mining aspects of data streams.

The design and development of electrical devices involves choosing from many possible variants that which is the best or optimum according to one or several criteria.

In the last decade, ontologies have received much attention within computer science and related disciplines, most often as the semantic web.

SystemVerilog is a rich set of extensions to the IEEE 1364-2001 Verilog Hardware Description Language (Verilog HDL).

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Computer Aided Design (CAD) technology plays a key role in today's advanced manufacturing environment.

Intelligence in Networks is a concept, the meaning of which is highly related to the time-period when it is used.

This volume contains papers presented at the fourth working conference on Communications and Multimedia Security (CMS'99), held in Leuven, Belgium from September 20-21, 1999.

Testing of Communicating Systems presents the latest worldwide results in both the theory and practice of the testing of communicating systems.

The International PROLAMAT Conference is an internationally well known event for demonstrating and evaluating activities and progress in the field of discrete manufacturing.

Embedded systems are becoming one of the major driving forces in computer science.

Designing is one of the most significant of human acts.

A virtual prototype is a major interim step towards the creation of a virtual environment.

Semantics, Web services, and Web processes promise better re-use, universal interoperability and integration.

Multimedia Database Retrieval: A Human-Centered Approach presents thelatest development in user-centered methods and the state-of-the-art invisual media retrieval.

In the early to mid-1990's while working at what was then Motorola Se- conductor, business changes forced my multi-hundred dollar microprocessor to become a tens-of-dollars embedded core.

Abstraction Refinement for Large Scale Model Checking summarizes recent research on abstraction techniques for model checking large digital system.

Deryn Watson and Jane Andersen Editors INTRODUCTION The role of a Preface is to introduce the nature of the publication.

Mastering interoperability in a computing environment consisting of different operating systems and hardware architectures is a key requirement which faces system engineers building distributed information systems.

Database Semantics: Semantic Issues in Multimedia Systems reflects the state of the art of emerging research on the meaning of multimedia information, as presented during IFIP's Eighth Data Semantics Working Conference (DS-8), organized by its Working Group 2.

Welcome to the third International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS'2000) in Fortaleza (Brazil)!

There are numerous factors contributing to the dynamic growth of wireless communication systems we've been observing in the past 10 years, the most important being the increasing network user mobility and the technological advances in high-speed data transmission over radio channels.

Telecommunication Network Intelligence is a state-of-the-art book that deals with issues related to the development, distribution, and management of intelligent capabilities and services in telecommunication networks.

Design and Analysis of Distributed Embedded Systems is organized similar to the conference.

Testing of Communicating Systems presents the latest international results in both the theory and industrial practice of the testing of communicating systems.

This volume is composed of the best papers submitted to the HOIT2000 conference held in Wolverhampton, U.

The Internet and the World Wide Web are deeply affecting the way things are traditionally done.

For over three decades now, silicon capacity has steadily been doubling every year and a half with equally staggering improvements continuously being observed in operating speeds.

Testing of Communicating Systems XIV presents the latest international results in both the theory and industrial practice of the testing of communicating systems, ranging from tools and techniques for testing to test standards, frameworks, notations, algorithms, fundamentals of testing, and industrial experiences and issues.

IFIP Working Group 5.

Digital Enterprise Challenges comprises the proceedings of the Eleventh International PROLAMAT conference, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Budapest, Hungary in November 2001.