Graphical and digital media applications Books

This book presents practical optimization techniques used in image processing and computer vision problems. Ill-posed problems are introduced and used as examples to show how each type of problem is related to typical image processing and computer vision...

This book is about computational methods based on operator splitting.   It consists of twenty-three chapters written by recognized splitting method contributors and practitioners, and covers a vast spectrum of topics and application areas, including...

This edited monograph collects research contributions and addresses the advancement of efficient numerical procedures in the area of model order reduction (MOR) for simulation, optimization and control. The topical scope includes, but is not limited to,...

This book presents an overview of the emerging field of emotion in videogame soundtracking. The emotional impact of music has been well-documented, particularly when used to enhance the impact of a multimodal experience, such as combining images with...

Introduction to Marc/Mentat.- Rods and Trusses.- Euler-Bernoulli Beams and Frames.- Timoshenko Beams.- Plane Elements.- Classical Plate Elements.- Three-Dimensional Elements.- Elasto-Plastic Simulation.- Advanced Topics.- Answers to Additional Questions.

Data Preprocessing for Data Mining addresses one of the most important issues within the well-known Knowledge Discovery from Data process. Data directly taken from the source will likely have inconsistencies, errors or most importantly, it is not ready...

Through a series of step-by-step tutorials and numerous hands-on exercises, this book aims to equip the reader with both a good understanding of the importance of space in the abstract world of engineers and the ability to create a model of a product in...

An increasing number of artists and programmers in visual effects and broadcast production now use mental ray, a high performance rendering engine for generating photorealistic images. This book details the aesthetics of...

The mental ray series of handbooks is conceived to provide concise and up to date general and technical information about the commercially available rendering software mental ray. The series addresses the needs of professional...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, SSVM 2023, which took place in Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy, in May 2023. The 57 papers presented in this volume...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart, STACOM 2022, held in conjunction with the 25th MICCAI conference.The 34 regular workshop papers included in this volume...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition, CCBR 2022, which took place in Beijing, China, in November 2022.The 70 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 115...

The 39-volume set, comprising the LNCS books 13661 until 13699, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2022, held in Tel Aviv, Israel, during October 23-27, 2022. The 1645 papers presented in...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligence Science, ICIS 2022, held in Xi'an, China, in August 2022. The 41 full and 5 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2022, held in Bologna, Italy in September 2022.The conference has a clear focus on experimental information retrieval with special attention...

The two-volume set LNCS 13373 and 13374 constitutes the papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2022, held in Lecce, Italy, in May 2022.The 96 revised full...

The proceedings set LNCS 13231, 13232, and 13233 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2022, which was held during May 23-27, 2022, in Lecce, Italy,The 168 papers included in the...

This book covers a variety of topics in the field of mechanical engineering, with a special focus on methods and technologies for modeling, simulation, and design of mechanical systems. Based on a set of papers presented at the 1st International...

This book reports on topics at the interface between manufacturing and materials engineering, with a special emphasis on product design and advanced manufacturing processes, intelligent solutions for Industry 4.0, covers topics in ICT for engineering...

This book serves as the first guideline of the integrative approach, optimal for our new and young generations. Recent technology advancements in computer vision, IoT sensors, and analytics open the door to highly impactful innovations and...

This book provides an overview of different deep learning-based methods for face recognition and related problems. Specifically, the authors present methods based on autoencoders, restricted Boltzmann machines, and deep convolutional neural networks for...

This book presents selected, peer-reviewed proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Material, Machines and Methods for Sustainable Development (MMMS2020), held in the city of Nha Trang, Vietnam, from 12 to 15 November, 2020. The purpose of the...

This book presents the proceedings from the International Symposium for Production Research 2020. The cross-disciplinary papers presented draw on research from academics and practitioners from industrial engineering, management engineering,...

This book describes various new computer based approaches which can be exploited for the (digital) reconstruction, recognition, restoration, presentation and classification of digital heritage. They are based on applications of virtual reality, augmented...

This book presents the outcomes of recent endeavors that will contribute to significant advances in the areas of communication design, fashion design, interior design and product design, music and musicology, as well as overlapping areas. Gathering the...

This book emphasizes the emerging building block of image processing domain, which is known as capsule networks for performing deep image recognition and processing for next-generation imaging science. Recent years have witnessed the continuous...

This book reports on the latest advances in using BIM modelling to achieve the semantic enrichment of objects, allowing them to be used both as multidimensional databases - as comprehensive sources of information for finalizing various types of...

Weed management Decision Support Systems (DSS) are increasingly important computer-based tools for modern agriculture. Nowadays, extensive agriculture has become highly dependent on external inputs and both economic costs, as well the negative...

This book presents the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Visions (AICV 2020), which took place in Cairo, Egypt, from April 8 to 10, 2020. This international conference, which highlighted essential...

Whether you're a designer, researcher, product manager, or engineer, you need to be concerned about your product’s security experience and your organization’s overall security. If you care about the people who use your products and...

Do you want to make money on YouTube?When someone makes this decision to finally take control of their income and turn to this great platform, the next feeling is almost always panic. Then it's defeat. Why? Because most people just don't know how to make...

Libro 1Muchas personas han abandonado la idea de entrar en el diseño de software porque los libros o cursos que han encontrado son difíciles. Es difícil de entender y, a menudo, aún más difícil de aplicar. Este libro fue creado para brindarle una...

Gain useful insights from an Adobe Certified Expert, Instructor, and Community Professional for designing cross-media content for print and digital projects with easy-to-follow projects and working filesKey Features:- Explore InDesign by working on...

Jump into the world of 3D art with Blender expert, Samuel Sullins in this beginner-friendly, color guide and learn modeling, shading, and rendering low poly 3D creations to transform into the 3D artist you've aspired to becomeKey Features- Create...

Boost your audience on social media by leveraging DaVinci Resolve 18 and share impressive micro-content with the guidance of a certified Blackmagic Design training partnerPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookKey FeaturesEnhance...

Discover Unreal Engine 5's powerful features and advanced PCG tools with Senior Technical Artist and Unreal Instructor, Paul Martin Eliasz and enable real-time visualization to transform game development and craft immersive, dynamic 3D environments in...

Seja um desenvolvedor web front-end com este curso completo que aborda os três pilares do desenvolvimento web. Com este livro, você aprenderá HTML, CSS e JavaScript de forma prática e eficiente, para entrar em uma das carreiras...

The Solid Edge 2025 Black Book is the 6th edition of our series on Solid Edge. This book is written to help beginners in creating some of the most complex solid models. The book follows a step-by-step methodology. In this book, we have tried to give...

Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven graphing utility for Linux, OS/2, MS Windows, OSX, VMS, and many other platforms. The source code is copyrighted but freely distributed (i.e., you don’t have to pay for it). It was originally created to...

This book is intended to bring together in a single reference all of the research to date in the field of Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR). It provides an overview of the published research on NPR in order to categorize and distill the current research...

Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines have become the de facto standard in CAD/CAM and computer graphics

This work presents recent research results in wavelet designs on 3D shapes and their applications in shape analysis. It explains how to apply the design methods to various types of 3D data, such as polygonal meshes, point clouds, manifolds, and...

Suitable for both beginners and more advanced users, this book explores why Blender is ideal for animation films. It demonstrates Blender's capability to do the job in each production department. Familiarizing readers with the animation industry, the...

This book details the important concepts in the study of audio and video systems. It covers the basics of audio and video engineering, communication and radar systems, optical fibers, and consumer electronics. It also includes assessment questions for...

This book explains how and why this has happened. It details the evolution of information graphics, the kinds of graphics at the core of data visualization-maps, diagrams, charts, scientific and medical images-from prehistory to the present day.