Graphical and digital media applications Books

Examining how victimisation can occur across the online-offline continuum while emphasising the need for a holistic approach to understanding and addressing contemporary harms, this book covers various themes of victimisation in the digital age linked to...

This book focuses on interactive segmentation techniques, which have been extensively studied in recent decades. Interactive segmentation emphasizes clear extraction of objects of interest, whose locations are roughly indicated by human interactions...

This book constitutes selected and revised papers from the First International Conference on VR/AR and 3D Displays, ICVRD 2020, held in Hangzhou, China, in December 2020.The 12 full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 29...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Conference on Image and Graphics Technologies and Applications, IGTA 2020, held in Beijing, China in September, 2020.*The 24 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 115...

This book constitutes revised papers from the Second International Conference on Urban Intelligence and Applications, ICUIA 2020, held in August 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 26 papers were...

This book introduces the basic structure, modeling methods, numerical calculation processes, post-processing, and system functions of MatDEM, which applies the basic principles and algorithm of the discrete element method. The discrete element method can...

This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from 2020 DigitalFUTURES-The 2nd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2020). The book focuses on novel techniques for computational design and robotic...

This book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Manufacturing (RAM 2020). The volume focuses on latest research trends in manufacturing systems such as CAE, CAD/CAM, robotics and automation, reverse...

This volume presents a selection of papers from the 2nd International Conference on Computational Methods in Manufacturing (ICCMM 2019). The papers cover the recent advances in computational methods for simulating various manufacturing processes like...

This book first introduces classic as well as recent computational models for just-noticeable-difference (JND) applications. Since the discrete cosine transform (DCT) is applied in many image and video standards (JPEG, MPEG-1/2/4, H.261/3), the book also...

The book encompasses the state-of-the-art visual quality assessment (VQA) and learning based visual quality assessment (LB-VQA) by providing a comprehensive overview of the existing relevant methods. It delivers the readers the basic knowledge,...

This book will provide a comprehensive overview on human action analysis with randomized trees. It will cover both the supervised random trees and the unsupervised random trees. When there are sufficient amount of labeled data available, supervised...

This book provides a systematic overview of watermarking and steganography methods for triangle meshes related to computer graphics and security. The significance of this research has been well recognized by the growing body of work on watermarking,...

This book is open access. Media forensics has never been more relevant to societal life. Not only media content represents an ever-increasing share of the data traveling on the net and the preferred communications means for most users, it has also become...

This book focuses on end-to-end robotic applications using vision and control algorithms, exposing its readers to design innovative solutions towards sensors-guided robotic bin-picking and assembly in an unstructured environment. The use of sensor fusion...

This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from 2021 DigitalFUTURES-The 3rd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2021). The work focuses on novel techniques for computational design and robotic...

This book is intended for textile designers, fashion designers, and for those interested in the integration of graphic design with textile surface printing. The book discusses how abstract graphic designs with intense color palette range work on...

The book focuses on visual object tracking systems and approaches based on correlation filter and deep learning. Both foundations and implementations have been addressed. The algorithm, system design and performance evaluation have been explored for...

This book presents the recent computational developments inspired by swarms in art known as swarm art and discusses applying swarm intelligence concepts in architecture. Non-human art is a great leap in the evolution of contemporary art,...

This book focuses on the application of virtual reality (VR) technology in mining machinery. It gives a detailed introduction to the application of VR technology in virtual assembly, virtual planning, and virtual monitoring. Based on the theory of...

This book provides insight on processing mechanics during ship and offshore structure, and researchers, scientists, and engineers in the field of manufacturing process mechanics can benefit from the book. This book is written by subject experts based on...

This book proposes a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art research work on multimedia analysis in IoT applications. This is a second volume by editors which provides theoretical and practical approach in the area of multimedia and IOT...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Human Brain and Artificial Intelligence, HBAI 2020, held in conjunction with IJCAI-PRICAI 2020, Kyoto, Japan, in January 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic HBAI 2020...

This book presents revised selected papers from the 17th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2020, held in Shanghai, China, in December 2020.The 21 full papers and 16 short papers presented in this volume were...

This book discusses different types of distance functions defined in an n-D integral space for their usefulness in approximating the Euclidean metric. It discusses the properties of these distance functions and presents various kinds of error analysis in...

1.    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Document Analysis and Recognition, DAR 2018, held in Conjunction with ICVGIP 2018, in Hyderabad, India, in December 2018. The 12 revised full papers and...

This book presents a comprehensive review of heterogeneous face analysis and synthesis, ranging from the theoretical and technical foundations to various hot and emerging applications, such as cosmetic transfer, cross-spectral hallucination and face...

This book constitutes selected papers of the 18th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures, CAAD Futures 2019, held in Daejeon, Republic of Korea, in June 2019.The 34 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed...

This book presents revised selected papers from the 15th International Forum on Digital TV and Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2018, held in Shanghai, China, in September 2018.The 39 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and...

The "2019 DigitalFUTURES - The 1st International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2019)" provides an international platform for advanced scientific research papers on the digital technology of architectural design and...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Geo-informatics in Sustainable Ecosystem and Society, GSES 2018, held in Handan, China, in September 2018.The 46 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed...

This book presents fascinating, state-of-the-art research findings in the field of signal and image processing. It includes conference papers covering a wide range of signal processing applications involving filtering, encoding, classification,...

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Future Learning Aspects of Mechanical Engineering (FLAME 2018). The book covers mechanical design areas such as computational mechanics, finite element modeling, computer aided...

This book aims at finding some answers to the questions: What is the influence of humans in controlling CAD and how much is human in control of its surroundings? How far does our reach as humans really go? Do the complex algorithms that we use for city...

This book presents essential algorithms for the image processing pipeline of photo-printers and accompanying software tools, offering an exposition of multiple image enhancement algorithms, smart aspect-ratio changing techniques for borderless printing...

This book provides detailed practical guidelines on how to develop an efficient pathological brain detection system, reflecting the latest advances in the computer-aided diagnosis of structural magnetic resonance brain images. Matlab codes are provided...

This book presents the topic of underwater real-time 3-D acoustical imaging covering the theory, algorithms and system design. It summarizes recent advances in wideband and ultra-wideband underwater real-time 3-D acoustical imaging, which will be very...

This book introduces the challenges of robotic tactile perception and task understanding, and describes an advanced approach based on machine learning and sparse coding techniques. Further, a set of structured sparse coding models is developed to address...

This book provides a unique, in-depth discussion of multiview learning, one of the fastest developing branches in machine learning. Multiview Learning has been proved to have good theoretical underpinnings and great practical success. This book describes...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Soft Computing in Data Science, SCDS 2018, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in August 2018.The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 75...

This book offers comprehensive coverage of information retrieval by considering both Text Based Information Retrieval (TBIR) and Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), together with new research topics. The approach to TBIR is based on creating a...

This book introduces the applications of deep learning in various human centric visual analysis tasks, including classical ones like face detection and alignment and some newly rising tasks like fashion clothing parsing. Starting from an overview of...

This book systematically analyses the latest insights into night vision imaging processing and perceptual understanding as well as related theories and methods. The algorithm model and hardware system provided can be used as the reference basis for the...

This book systematically introduces Point-of-interest (POI) recommendations in Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs). Starting with a review of the advances in this area, the book then analyzes user mobility in LBSNs from geographical and temporal...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on User Science and Engineering, i-USEr 2018, held in Puchong, Malaysia, in August 2018.The 32 papers accepted for i-USEr 2018 were selected from 72 submissions with a...

This book presents high-quality papers from an international forum for research on computational approaches to learning. It includes current research and findings from various research labs, universities and institutions that may lead to development of...

This book presents the main concepts in handling digital images of mixed content, traditionally referenced as mixed raster content (MRC), in two main parts. The first includes introductory chapters covering the scientific and technical background...