Graphical and digital media applications Books

This foundational resource on tabletop game accessibility provides actionable guidelines on how to make games accessible for people with disabilities. The book contextualizes this practical guidance within a philosophical framework of how the relatively...

Visitor engagement and learning, outreach, and inclusion are concepts that have long dominated professional museum discourses.  The recent rapid uptake of various forms of social media in many parts of the world, however, calls for a reformulation...

Virtual Reality is not real life. Instead it is life-like creations using computer-generated scenarios. Human behavior is replicated in virtual scenarios, where every detail is controlled by computers, and in situations that can be repeated under the...

This book brings together a number of researchers and developers from industry and academia who report on their work. It is of interest to language designers and the creators of toolkits, UIMSs, and other user interface tools.

What does the Coen Brothers' Barton Fink have in common with Norman McLaren's Synchromy? Or with audiovisual sculpture? Or contemporary music video? Composing Audiovisually interrogates how the relationship between the audiovisual media in these works,...

This book is devoted to the issue of image super-resolution-obtaining high-resolution images from single or multiple low-resolution images. Although there are numerous algorithms available for image interpolation and super-resolution, there's been a need...

Introduction.- NoC Basics.- Systems-on-Chip Testing.- NoC Reuse for SoC Modular Testing.- Advanced Approaches for NoC Reuse.- Test and Diagnosis of Routers.- Test and Diagnosis of Communication Channels.- Error Control Coding and Retransmission.- Error...

Written by specialists in teaching computer animation, this text addresses key international topics of computer animation, such as: mathematics, modelling, rendering, and compositing. Each chapter discusses a particular topic...

A definitive guide for incorporating accessibility into commercial construction projects, including ADA compliance and universal design principles.

Introduction.- Multi-core and Many-core Processor Architectures.- State of the Art Multi-core Operating Systems.- The Fundamental Laws of Parallelism.- Fundamentals of Parallel Programming.- Debugging and Performance Analysis of Many-core Programs.-...

Part I: Trustworthy Embedded Systems.- Introduction: OpenComRTOS Role in a Unified Systems Engineering Methodology.- Requirements and Specifications for the OpenComRTOS Project.- Part II: Formal Modeling Fundamentals.- The Choice of TLA+/TLC: Comparing...

Introduction.- Solutions to Improve the Reliability of On-Chip Interconnects.- Networks-on-Chip (NoC).- Error Control Coding for On-Chip Interconnects.- Energy Efficient Error Control Implementation.- Combining Error Control Codes with Crosstalk...

Since register transfer level (RTL) design is less about being a bright engineer, and more about knowing the downstream implications of your work, this book explains the impact of design decisions taken that may give rise later in the product lifecycle...

Part I: Methodologies and Tools.- 1. The MULTICUBE Design Flow.- 2. M3-SCoPE: Performance Modeling of Multi-Processor Embedded Systems for Fast Design Space Exploration.- 3. Optimization Algorithms for Design Space Exploration of Embedded Systems.- 4...

This book describes the state-of-the-art in RF, analog, and mixed-signal circuit design for Software Defined Radio (SDR).  It synthesizes for analog/RF circuit designers the most important general design approaches to take...

This textbook is written for junior/senior undergraduate and first-year graduate students in the electrical and computer engineering departments.Using PSoC mixed-signal array design, the authors define the characteristics of embedd design, embedded...

Part I: HS/SW/ Building Blocks: Architecture, Methods, and Techniques.- 1. Memory Architecture and Management in an NoC Platform.- 2. Application-Specific Multi-Threaded Dynamic Memory Management.- 3. Power Management Architecture in McNoC.- 4. ASIP...

An Introduction to MPEG Digital Media.- MPEG Video Compression Basics.- MPEG Video Coding Advances.- MPEG Video Compression Future.- MPEG Image and Video Signature.- Audio Coding-The Beginning.- MPEG Audio Compression Advances.- MPEG Audio Compression...

System-Level Design Techniques for Energy-Efficient Embedded Systems addresses the development and validation of co-synthesis techniques that allow an effective design of embedded systems with low energy dissipation. The book...

This volume introduces innovative power estimation and optimization methodologies to support the design of low power embedded systems based on high-performance VLIW microprocessors. A VLIW processor is a (generally) pipelined...

Video Structure and Terminology.- Multimodal Video Characterization.- Video Summarization.- Visualization Techniques.- Evaluation.- Conclusions.

Automated Video Surveillance.- Identifying Regions of Interest in Image Sequences.- Object Detection and Categorization.- Object Tracking in a Single Camera.- Tracking in Multiple Cameras with Disjoint Views.- Knight Surveillance System Deployment.-...

Recent Trends in Computational and Robot Vision.- Extracting Planar Kinematic Models Using Interactive Perception.- People Detection Using Multiple Sensors on a Mobile Robot.- Perceiving Objects and Movements to Generate Actions on a Humanoid Robot.-...

This book provides insight into the behavior and design of power distribution systems for high speed, high complexity integrated circuits. Also presented are criteria for estimating minimum required on-chip decoupling...

Context Extraction Through Audio Signal Analysis.- Extracting Semantics from Multimedia Content: Challenges and Solutions.- Broadcast Video Content Segmentation by Supervised Learning.- Audio Content Discovery: An Unsupervised Approach.- Capturing Text...

Voltage-Mode Versus Current-Mode: A Critical Comparison.- Design Techniques for Current-Mode Circuits.- Wire Channels.- Electrical Signaling for High-Speed Data Links.- Current-Mode Transmitters.- Current-Mode Receivers.- Switching Noise and Grounding of...

What is Verification?.- Verification Technologies.- The Verification Plan.- High-Level Modeling.- Stimulus and Response.- Architecting Testbenches.- Simulation Management.

Distributed Technologies for Multimedia Retrieval Over Networks.- Multiple Servers Retrieval Strategy : Data Partitioning Approach.- Supporting Multiple Clients: Channel Partitioning Approach.- An Alternative Retrieval Strategy: A Play-While-Retrieve...

Abstract Biological vision is a rather fascinating domain of research. Scientists of various origins like biology, medicine, neurophysiology, engineering, math­ ematics, etc. aim to understand the processes leading to visual...

Power, Junction Temperature, and Reliability.- Burn-in as a Reliability Screening Test.- Thermal and Electrothermal Modeling.- Thermal Runaway and Thermal Management.- Low Temperature CMOS Operation.

Fundamentals, Preliminaries and Reviews.- Fundamentals.- Preliminaries and Reviews.- Face Recognition Under Variations.- Symmetric Shape from Shading.- Generalized Photometric Stereo.- Illuminating Light Field.- Facial Aging.- Face Recognition Via Kernel...

Human Identification Based on Gait is the first book to address gait as a biometric. Biometrics is now in a unique position where it affects most people's lives. This is especially true of "gait", which is one of the most...

to Stream Data Management.- Query Execution and Optimization.- Filtering, Punctuation, Windows and Synopses.- XML & Data Streams.- CAPE: A Constraint-Aware Adaptive Stream Processing Engine.- Efficient Support for Time Series Queries in Data Stream...

Visual Data Formats.- Cryptography Primer.- Application Scenarios for the Encryption of Visual Data.- Image and Video Encryption.- Conclusions.

Four Alternative Breast Imaging Modalities.- Computational Framework.- Magnetic Resonance Elastography: Theory.- Magnetic Resonance Elastrography: Experimental Validation and Performance Optimazation.- Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy: Theory.-...

Biometrics: When Identity Matters.- Information Fusion in Biometrics.- Levels of Fusion in Biometrics.- Score Level Fusion.- Fusion Incorporating Ancillary Information.

Podium Presentations.- Optimization with Genetic Algorithms and Splines as a way for Computer Aided Innovation.- Methodology development of human task simulation as PLM solution related to OCRA ergonomic analysis.- Measuring patent similarity by...

Extracting content from text continues to be an important research problem for information processing and management. Approaches to capture the semantics of text-based document collections may be based on Bayesian models,...

Here is, for the first time, a book that clearly explains and applies new level set methods to problems and applications in computer vision, graphics, and imaging. It is an essential compilation of survey chapters from the...

Confused by charts? Dont know your area chart from your Venn diagram? How Charts Work will help you understand data visualisation and how to do it well.

Embarking on tech startup journey but unsure how to translate your innovative ideas into functional software? "THE TECH ENTREPRENEUR'S POCKET GUIDE" is your essential companion, offering practical insights into the vital role of communication in the...

Design in SketchUpDocument in LayOutLearn how to use SketchUp and LayOut to design and document any architectural project from concept to completion. This step-by-step workflow shows you how to create a 3D terrain model of your existing site, then...

Master stop motion on the iPad - weaving together story, pictures and sound.The iPad is one of the most exciting recent developments in stop motion. Now everyone can participate, and with this book you'll soon be making animation movies like a...

Digital Development in Korea explores the central role of digital information and communication technology in South Korea. Analyzing the role of ICT in green growth and sustainability, this new edition also demonstrates how concerns over public safety...

The Future of Design Methodology gives a holistic overview of perspectives for design methodology, addresses trends for developing a powerful methodical support for design practice and provides a starting point for future...

Large-scale video networks are of increasing importance in a wide range of applications. However, the development of automated techniques for aggregating and interpreting information from multiple video streams in real-life...

Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors presents leading-edge research that focuses on design methodology, infrastructure support and scalable architectures developed by the 150 million dollar DARPA...

Resource Management for Distributed Multimedia Systems addresses the problems and challenges of handling several continuous- media data streams in networked multimedia environments. The work demonstrates how resource...