Electrical engineering

This book is Volume I of the series DSP for MATLAB(TM) and LabVIEW(TM).

Linear prediction theory has had a profound impact in the field of digital signal processing.

The purpose of this lecture book is to present the state of the art in nonlinear blind source separation, in a form appropriate for students, researchers and developers.

Spectral estimation is important in many fields including astronomy, meteorology, seismology, communications, economics, speech analysis, medical imaging, radar, sonar, and underwater acoustics.

This book presents a step-by-step discussion of the design and development of radio frequency identification (RFID) and RFID-enabled sensors on flexible low cost substrates for UHF frequency bands.

This volume considers various methods of energy storage that make use of electrochemical reactions, electric and magnetic fields, and chemical reactions.

This book presents physics-based electro-thermal models of bipolar power semiconductor devices including their packages, and describes their implementation in MATLAB and Simulink.

The efficiency of solar energy farms requires detailed analytics and information on each panel regarding voltage, current, temperature, and irradiance.

Computers play an important role in the analyzing and designing of modern DC-DC power converters.

DC-DC converters require negative feedback to provide a suitable output voltage or current for the load.

DC-DC converters have many applications in the modern world.

Wind power penetration is rapidly increasing in today's energy generation industry.

The world energy demand has been increasing in a rapid manner with the increase of population and rising standard of living.

This book presents the reader, whether an electrical engineering student in power electronics or a design engineer, a selection of power converter control problems and their basic digital solutions, based on the most widespread digital control techniques.

This book presents physics-based models of bipolar power semiconductor devices and their implementation in MATLAB and Simulink.

Although the solar energy industry has experienced rapid growth recently, high-level management of photovoltaic (PV) arrays has remained an open problem.

This book links the challenges to which the electricity network is exposed with the range of new technology, methodologies and market mechanisms known under the name "e;smart grid.

Wind energy is now the world's fastest growing energy source.

An analysis of the current (February 2009) status and future potential of India's nuclear fuel cycle is presented in this book.

Image fusion in remote sensing or pansharpening involves fusing spatial (panchromatic) and spectral (multispectral) images that are captured by different sensors on satellites.

Micro-videos, a new form of user-generated contents, have been spreading widely across various social platforms, such as Vine, Kuaishou, and Tik Tok.

The book is based on the material originally developed for the course on Virtual Reality, which the author was teaching at Tampere University of Technology, as well as course on Virtual Environments that the author had prepared for the University for Advancing Studies at Tempe, Arizona.

The last few years have witnessed fast development on dictionary learning approaches for a set of visual computing tasks, largely due to their utilization in developing new techniques based on sparse representation.

Every year lives and properties are lost in road accidents.

Current vision systems are designed to perform in normal weather condition.

Image understanding has been playing an increasingly crucial role in several inverse problems and computer vision.

Video context analysis is an active and vibrant research area, which provides means for extracting, analyzing and understanding behavior of a single target and multiple targets.

This book explains the stages necessary to create a wavelet compression system for images and describes state-of-the-art systems used in image compression standards and current research.

Earth observation is the field of science concerned with the problem of monitoring and modeling the processes on the Earth surface and their interaction with the atmosphere.

This lecture describes the author's approach to the representation of color spaces and their use for color image processing.

The sequel to the popular lecture book entitled Biomedical Image Analysis: Tracking, this book on Biomedical Image Analysis: Segmentation tackles the challenging task of segmenting biological and medical images.

This book deals with the problem of joint source-channel video transmission, i.

This book focuses on the super resolution of images and video.

This lecture presents research on a general framework for perceptual organization that was conducted mainly at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems of the University of Southern California.

This book presents an overview of the guidelines and strategies for transitioning an image or video processing algorithm from a research environment into a real-time constrained environment.

An important merit of the MPEG-4 video standard is that it not only provided tools and algorithms for enhancing the compression efficiency of existing MPEG-2 and H.

This Lecture book is about objective image quality assessment-where the aim is to provide computational models that can automatically predict perceptual image quality.

In biological and medical imaging applications, tracking objects in motion is a critical task.

Light field is one of the most representative image-based rendering techniques that generate novel virtual views from images instead of 3D models.

The recognition of humans and their activities from video sequences is currently a very active area of research because of its applications in video surveillance, design of realistic entertainment systems, multimedia communications, and medical diagnosis.

Plasma-based techniques are widely and successfully used across the field of materials processing, advanced nanosynthesis, and nanofabrication.

Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) technology is widely used in high-performance and low-power semiconductor devices.

Exa-scale computing needs to re-examine the existing hardware platform that can support intensive data-oriented computing.

This book aims at describing in detail the different layout techniques for remarkably boosting the electrical performance and the ionizing radiation tolerance of planar Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) Field Effect Transistors (MOSFETs) without adding any costs to the current planar Complementary MOS (CMOS) integrated circuits (ICs) manufacturing processes.

RRAM technology has made significant progress in the past decade as a competitive candidate for the next generation non-volatile memory (NVM).

As technologists, we are constantly exploring and pushing the limits of our own disciplines, and we accept the notion that the efficiencies of new technologies are advancing at a very rapid rate.

Ever since its invention in the 1980s, the compound semiconductor heterojunction-based high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) has been widely used in radio frequency (RF) applications.

Low substrate/lattice temperature (< 300 K) operation of n-MOSFET has been effectively studied by device research and integration professionals in CMOS logic and analog products from the early 1970s.

In order to sustain Moore's Law-based device scaling, principal attention has focused on toward device architectural innovations for improved device performance as per ITRS projections for technology nodes up to 10 nm.

In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, in "e;"e;Cramming more components onto Integrated Circuits"e;"e; in Electronics Magazine (April 19, 1965), made the observation that, in the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years.