Graphical and digital media applications

Human Identification Based on Gait is the first book to address gait as a biometric.

Face recognition has been actively studied over the past decade and continues to be a big research challenge.

Interconnect has become the dominating factor in determining system performance in nanometer technologies.

The Semantic Web, that adds a conceptual layer of machine-understand- able metadata to the existing content, will make the content available for processing by intelligent software allowing automatic resource integration and providing interoperability between heterogeneous systems.

If you survey hardware design groups, you will learn that between 60% and 80% of their effort is dedicated to verification.

Until the late eighties, information processing was associated with large mainframe computers and huge tape drives.

"e;New Trends and Technologies in Computer-Aided Learning for Computer-Aided Design"e; contains the proceedings from the EduTech Workshop, an IFIP TC-10 Working Conference held in Perth, Australia.

Reliable human authentication schemes are of paramount importance in our highly networked society.

Scalable Hardware Verification with Symbolic Simulation presents recent advancements in symbolic simulation-based solutions which radically improve scalability.

SystemC provides a robust set of extensions to C++ that enables rapid development of complex hardware/software systems.

Constraint-Based Verification covers an emerging field in functional verification of electronic designs, referred to as the "e;constraint-based verification.

Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems: Quartus II Edition provides an exciting and challenging laboratory component for undergraduate digital logic and computer design courses using FPGAs and CAD tools for simulation and hardware implementation.

Parallel and distributed computing is one of the foremost technologies for shapingfuture research and development activities in academia and industry.

John Eargle's 4th edition of The Handbook of Recording Engineering is the latest version of his long-time classic hands-on book for aspiring recording engineers.

Computer graphics is important in many areas including engineering design, architecture, education, and computer art and animation.

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This text is a light technical introduction to the three technical foundations for multimedia applications across the Internet: communications (principles, technologies and networking), compressive encoding of digital media, and Internet protocol and services.

Hard real-time systems are very predictable, but not sufficiently flexible to adapt to dynamic situations.

Scaling transistors into the nanometer regime has resulted in a dramatic increase in MOS leakage (i.

Biometric user authentication techniques evoke an enormous interest by science, industry and society.

The concept of content delivery (also known as content distribution) is be- coming increasingly important due to rapidly growing demands for efficient distribution and fast access of information in the Internet.

SystemVerilog for Verification provides practical information for hardware and software engineers using the SystemVerilog language to verify electronic designs.

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Electromagnetic Compatibility of Integrated Circuits: Techniques for Low Emission and Susceptibility focuses on the electromagnetic compatibility of integrated circuits.

Modern applications are both data and computationally intensive and require the storage and manipulation of voluminous traditional (alphanumeric) and nontraditional data sets (images, text, geometric objects, time-series).

It is widely acknowledged that the cost of validation and testing comprises a s- nificant percentage of the overall development costs for electronic systems today, and is expected to escalate sharply in the future.

Motion-Free Super-Resolution is a compilation of very recent work on various methods of generating super-resolution (SR) images from a set of low-resolution images.

Multimedia Encryption and Watermarking presents a comprehensive survey of contemporary multimedia encryption and watermarking techniques, which enable a secure exchange of multimedia intellectual property.

Researchers in data management have recently recognized the importance of a new class of data-intensive applications that requires managing data streams, i.

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook organizes all major concepts, theories, methodologies, trends, challenges and applications of data mining (DM) and knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) into a coherent and unified repository.

Computer graphics games and animations have been popular for over a decade, and personal computers have now evolved to support real-time, realistic-looking interactive games.

Functional verification remains one of the single biggest challenges in the development of complex system-on-chip (SoC) devices.

Even in the age of ubiquitous computing, the importance of the Internet will not change and we still need to solve conventional security issues.

Semiconductor Modeling: For Simulating Signal, Power, and Electromagnetic Integrity assists engineers - both recent graduates and working product designers - in designing high-speed circuits.

Communication between engineers, their managers, suppliers and customers relies on the existence of a common understanding for the meaning of terms.

Broadband Satellite Communication Systems and the Challenges of Mobility is an essential reference for both academic and professional researchers in the field of telecommunications, computer networking and wireless networks.

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Fuzzy Database Modeling with XML aims to provide a single record of current research and practical applications in the fuzzy databases.

Image and Video Encryption provides a unified overview of techniques for encryption of images and video data.

Multimodal Video Characterization and Summarization is a valuable research tool for both professionals and academicians working in the video field.

The unprecedented growth in the range of multimedia services offered these days by modern telecommunication systems has been made possible only because of the advancements in signal processing technologies and algorithms.

This volume reflects the theme of the INFORMS 2004 Meeting in Denver: Back to OR Roots.

Advanced Wired and Wireless Networks brings the reader a sample of recent research efforts representative of advances in the areas of recognized importance for the future Internet, such as ad hoc networking, mobility support and performance improvements in advanced networks and protocols.

This book explores a great number of concepts, methods, technologies, and tools-in one word resources-that apply to various domains of typesetting.

Existence of huge amounts of data on the Web has developed an undeferring need to locate right information at right time, as well as to integrating information effectively to provide a comprehensive source of relevant information.

This book describes an award-winning evolutionary algorithm that outperformed experts and conventional heuristics in solving several industrial problems.

Decision diagrams (DDs) are data structures for efficient (time/space) representations of large discrete functions.

Computer-Aided Innovation (CAI) is emerging as a strategic domain of research and application to support enterprises throughout the overall innovation process.