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3D-TV System with Depth-Image-Based Rendering: Architectures, Techniques and Challenges
By Masayuki Tanimoto, Ce Zhu, Lu Yu, Yin Zhao. 2013
Riding on the success of 3D cinema blockbusters and advances in stereoscopic display technology, 3D video applications have gathered momentum…
in recent years. 3D-TV System with Depth-Image-Based Rendering: Architectures, Techniques and Challenges surveys depth-image-based 3D-TV systems, which are expected to be put into applications in the near future. Depth-image-based rendering (DIBR) significantly enhances the 3D visual experience compared to stereoscopic systems currently in use. DIBR techniques make it possible to generate additional viewpoints using 3D warping techniques to adjust the perceived depth of stereoscopic videos and provide for auto-stereoscopic displays that do not require glasses for viewing the 3D image. The material includes a technical review and literature survey of components and complete systems, solutions for technical issues, and implementation of prototypes. The book is organized into four sections: System Overview, Content Generation, Data Compression and Transmission, and 3D Visualization and Quality Assessment. This book will benefit researchers, developers, engineers, and innovators, as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students working in relevant areas.Advances in Commercial Deployment of Spoken Dialog Systems (SpringerBriefs in Speech Technology)
By David Suendermann. 2010
Advances in Commercial Deployment of Spoken Dialog Systems covers the peculiarities of commercial deployments of spoken dialog systems from…
the tools standards and design principles to build them the infrastructure to deploy them techniques to monitor evaluate and analyze them and most importantly effective strategies to adapt tune and optimize them The book shows to what extent academic spoken dialog system research converges with real-world applications This academic and practical synergy can be leveraged to build successful and robust spoken dialog applications that are useful when dealing with the dynamics of the ever-changing future userCapitalism and Cloves: An Archaeology of Plantation Life on Nineteenth-Century Zanzibar
By Sarah K. Croucher. 2015
This study of nineteenth-century clove plantations on Zanzibar provides an important contribution to debates in global historical archaeology. Broadening plantation…
archaeology beyond the Atlantic World, this work addresses plantations run by Omani Arab colonial rulers of Zanzibar. Drawing on archaeological and historical data, this book argues for the need to examine non-Western contexts of colonialism and capitalism as coeval with those in the North Atlantic World. This work explores themes of capitalism, colonialism, plantation landscapes, African Diaspora communities, gender and sexuality, locally produced and imported goods in historic contexts, and Islamic historical archaeology.Operational Research
By João Paulo Almeida, José Fernando Oliveira, Alberto Adrego Pinto, A. Ismael Vaz. 2018
This proceedings book presents selected contributions from the XVIII Congress of APDIO (the Portuguese Association of Operational Research) held in…
Valença on June 28–30, 2017. Prepared by leading Portuguese and international researchers in the field of operations research, it covers a wide range of complex real-world applications of operations research methods using recent theoretical techniques, in order to narrow the gap between academic research and practical applications. Of particular interest are the applications of, nonlinear and mixed-integer programming, data envelopment analysis, clustering techniques, hybrid heuristics, supply chain management, and lot sizing and job scheduling problems. In most chapters, the problems, methods and methodologies described are complemented by supporting figures, tables and algorithms.The XVIII Congress of APDIO marked the 18th installment of the regular biannual meetings of APDIO – the Portuguese Association of Operational Research. The meetings bring together researchers, scholars and practitioners, as well as MSc and PhD students, working in the field of operations research to present and discuss their latest works. The main theme of the latest meeting was Operational Research Pro Bono. Given the breadth of topics covered, the book offers a valuable resource for all researchers, students and practitioners interested in the latest trends in this field.Ethnography And The Corporate Encounter
By Melissa Cefkin. 2010
Businesses and other organizations are increasingly hiring anthropologists and other ethnographically-oriented social scientists as employees consultants and advisors…
The nature of such work as described in this volume raises crucial questions about potential implications to disciplines of critical inquiry such as anthropology In addressing these issues the contributors explore how researchers encounter and engage sites of organizational practice in such roles as suppliers of consumer-insight for product design or marketing or as advisors on work design or business and organizational strategies The volume contributes to the emerging canon of corporate ethnography appealing to practitioners who wish to advance their understanding of the practice of corporate ethnography and providing rich material to those interested in new applications of ethnographic work and the ongoing rethinking of the nature of ethnographic praxisDeterritorialized Youth
By Dawn Chatty. 2012
The Sahrawi and Afghan refugee youth in the Middle East have been stereotyped regionally and internationally some have been…
objectified as passive victims others have become the beneficiaries of numerous humanitarian aid packages which presume the primacy of the Western model of child development This book compares and contrasts both the stereotypes and Western-based models of humanitarian assistance among Sahrawi youth with the lack of programming and near total self-sufficiency of Afghan refugee youth in Iran Both extremes offer an important opportunity to further explore the impact which forced migration and prolonged conflict have had and continue to have on the lives of these refugee youth and their families This study examines refugee communities closely linked with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR and a host of other UN agencies in the case of the Sahrawi and near total lack of humanitarian aid in the case of Afghan refugees in IranUnity iOS Essentials
By Robert Wiebe. 2011
You will start by considering the essential differences between mobile and desktop game development. You will then get straight into…
creating unity projects that will run on the entire spectrum of iOS devices. This book is for people who want to plan, develop, and deploy Unity 3D games on iOS mobile platforms, including iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Anyone who has experience with the free desktop version of Unity 3D can pick up this book and learn how to take the desktop skills and optimize them to work on the mobile iOS platforms. Some of the features in this book discuss the Pro features of Unity 3D for iOS so a Pro license is required to use some of the features (notably Occlusion Culling and Beast Light mapping).Tetzcoco was one of the most important cities of the pre-Hispanic Aztec Empire. When the Spaniards arrived in 1519, the…
indigenous hereditary nobles that governed Tetzcoco faced both opportunities and challenges, and were forced to adapt from the very moment of contact. This book examines how the city's nobility navigated this tumultuous period of conquest and colonialism, and negotiated a place for themselves under Spanish rule. While Tetzcoco's native nobles experienced a remarkable degree of continuity with the pre-contact period, especially in the first few decades after conquest, various forces and issues, such as changing access to economic resources, interethnic marriage, and intra-familial conflict, transformed Tetzcoco's ruling family into colonial subjects by the century's end.Comparative Archaeologies: A Sociological View of the Science of the Past
By Ludomir Lozny. 2006
Archaeology as with all of the social sciences has always been characterized by competing theoretical propositions based on…
diverse bodies of locally acquired data In order to fulfill local regional expectations different goals have been assigned to the practitioners of Archaeology in different regions These goals might be entrenched in local politics or social expectations behind cultural heritage research This comprehensive book explores regional archaeologies from a sociological perspective--to identify and explain regional differences in archaeological practice as well as their existing similarities This work covers not only the currently-dominant Anglo-American archaeological paradigm but also Latin America Western and Eastern Europe Asia and Africa all of which have developed their own unique archaeological traditions The contributions in this work cover these alternative archaeologies in the context of their own geographical political and socio-economic settings as well as the context of the currently accepted mainstream approachesAnalysis of Engineering Drawings and Raster Map Images
By Thomas Henderson. 2014
This book covers up-to-date methods and algorithms for the automated analysis of engineering drawings and digital cartographic maps. The Non-Deterministic…
Agent System (NDAS) offers a parallel computational approach to such image analysis. The book describes techniques suitable for persistent and explicit knowledge representation for engineering drawings and digital maps. It also highlights more specific techniques, e.g., applying robot navigation and mapping methods to this problem. Also included are more detailed accounts of the use of unsupervised segmentation algorithms to map images. Finally, all these threads are woven together in two related systems: NDAS and AMAM (Automatic Map Analysis Module).Greatness in the Shadows: Larry Doby and the Integration of the American League
By Douglas M. Branson. 2016
Just weeks after Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, Larry Doby joined Robinson in breaking the color barrier in the…
major leagues when he became the first black player to integrate the American League, signing with the Cleveland Indians in July 1947. Doby went on to be a seven-time All-Star center fielder who led the Indians to two pennants. In many respects Robinson and Doby were equals in their baseball talent and experiences and had remarkably similar playing careers: both were well-educated, well-spoken World War II veterans and both had played spectacularly, albeit briefly, in the Negro Leagues. Like Robinson, Doby suffered brickbats, knock-down pitches, spit in his face, and other forms of abuse and discrimination. Doby was also a pioneering manager, becoming the second black manager after Frank Robinson. Well into the 1950s Doby was the only African American All-Star in the American League during a period in which fifteen black players became National League All-Stars. Why is Doby largely forgotten as a central figure in baseball’s integration? Why has he not been accorded his rightful place in baseball history? Greatness in the Shadows attempts to answer these questions, bringing Doby’s story to life and sharing his achievements and firsts with a new generation.Governance, Risk, and Compliance Handbook for Oracle Applications
By Adil Khan, Nigel King. 2012
The book is not organized by product, rather by the governance and risk assurance processes. A given product may be…
represented in multiple places within the book and a given process may contain multiple product references. To ensure that we keep ourselves grounded in real problems, the book is written as a journal of a fictional company establishing its governance processes. It will introduce managers and directors responsible for various aspects of the governance, risk and compliance problem and where that problem is exposed and how it is addressed in the technology and business applications. The audience for this book is the people that advise the board, the internal audit department and CIO office on controls, security and risk assurance. Consultants that are implementing Financials or GRC Applications who wish to gain an understanding of the Governance Risk and Compliance processes, and how they are represented in Oracle, should find it a useful primer. Risk Assurance professionals will find it a reliable companion.Crime in the Art and Antiquities World: Illegal Trafficking in Cultural Property
By Stefano Manacorda, Duncan Chappell. 2011
The theft trafficking and falsification of cultural property and cultural heritage objects are crimes of a particularly complex…
nature which often have international ramifications and significant economic consequences Organized criminal groups of various types and origins are involved in these illegal acts The book Crime in the Art and Antiquities World has contributions both from researchers specializing in the illegal trafficking of art and representatives of international institutions involved with prevention and detection of cultural property-related crimes such as Interpol and UNESCO This work is a unique and useful reference for scholars and private and public bodies alike This innovative volume also includes an Appendix of the existing legal texts i e international treaties conventions and resolutions which have not previously been available in a single volume As anyone who has undertaken research or study relating to the protection of cultural heritage discovers one of the frustrations encountered is the absence of ready access to the multi- various international instruments which exist in the field Since the end of the Second World War these instruments have proliferated first in response to increasing recognition of the need for concerted multinational action to give better protection to cultural property during armed conflict as well as ensuring the repatriation of cultural property looted during such conflict Thus the international community agreed in 1954 upon a Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict That Convention typically referred to as the Hague Convention of 1954 is now to be found reproduced in the Appendix to this book Appendix I together with 25 other important and diverse documents that we believe represent a core of the essential international sources of reference in this subject area In presenting these documents in one place we hope that readers will now experience less frustration while having the benefit of supplementing their understanding and interpretation of the various instruments by referring to individual chapters in the book dealing with a particular issue or topic For example Chapter 9 by Mathew Bogdanos provides some specific and at times rather depressing descriptions of the application in the field of the Hague Convention 1954 and its Protocols Appendices II and III to the armed conflict in Iraq Reference may also be had to the resolution of the UN Security Council in May 2003 Appendix VI urging Member States to take appropriate steps to facilitate the safe return of looted Iraqi cultural property taken from the Iraq National Museum the National Library and other locations in Iraq Despite such pleas the international antiquities market seems to have continued to trade such looted property in a largely unfettered manner as demonstrated by Neil Brodie in Chapter 7 Fittingly as referred to in the Preface to this book the last document contained in the Appendix Appendix 26 is the Charter of Courmayeur formulated at a ground breaking international workshop on the protection of cultural property conducted by the International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council ISPAC to the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Program in Courmayeur Italy in June 1992 The Charter makes mention of many of the instruments contained in the Appendix while also foreshadowing many of the developments which have taken place in the ensuing two decades designed to combat illicit trafficking in cultural property through international collaboration and action in the arena of crime prevention and criminal justiceMastering Manga Studio 5
By Liz Staley. 2013
Mastering Manga Studio 5 will follow an explanatory, work through manual approach. The main features of Manga will be presented…
in each section along with exciting tips, vital techniques and impressive workflows.This book is for those who already have some Manga Studio and graphics program experience. It is not a beginner's guide, but if you are a novice Manga Studio 5 user it will help you to master the time-saving features of the software.Analyzing Interactions in CSCL: Methods, Approaches and Issues (Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Series #12)
By Gijsbert Erkens, Sadhana Puntambekar, Cindy Hmelo-Silver. 2011
Analyzing Interactions in CSCL: Methodology, Approaches, and Issues deepens the understanding of ways to document and analyze interactions in CSCL…
and informs the design of the next generation of CSCL tools. It provides researchers with several alternative methodologies, theoretical underpinnings of the methods used, data indicating how the method worked, guidance for using the methods, implications for understanding collaborative processes and their effect on learning outcomes and implications for design. CSCL research tends to span across several disciplines such as education, psychology, computer science and artificial intelligence. As a result, the methods for data collection and analysis are interdisciplinary, from fields such as sociology, anthropology, psychology, computer science, and artificial intelligence. This book brings perspectives together, and provides researchers with an array of methodologies to document and analyze collaborative interactions.Composite Sampling: A Novel Method to Accomplish Observational Economy in Environmental Studies (Environmental and Ecological Statistics #4)
By Sharad D. Gore, Ganapati P. Patil, Charles Taillie. 2011
Sampling consists of selection, acquisition, and quantification of a part of the population. While selection and acquisition apply to physical…
sampling units of the population, quantification pertains only to the variable of interest, which is a particular characteristic of the sampling units. A sampling procedure is expected to provide a sample that is representative with respect to some specified criteria. Composite sampling, under idealized conditions, incurs no loss of information for estimating the population means. But an important limitation to the method has been the loss of information on individual sample values, such as, the extremely large value. In many of the situations where individual sample values are of interest or concern, composite sampling methods can be suitably modified to retrieve the information on individual sample values that may be lost due to compositing. This book presents statistical solutions to issues that arise in the context of applications of composite sampling.Scratch 2.0 Game Development HOTSHOT
By Sergio Van Pul, Jessica Chiang. 2014
An easy-to-use book, containing 10 engaging projects that will help you learn how to build video games with the easy…
to use Scratch 2.0 environment. If you are a new, or current Scratch user and would like to improve your understanding of the new Scratch 2.0 interface, and learn how to make video games, this book is ideal for you. Each project is explained in-depth from start to finish, so everyone can follow along, even if you don't have much previous experience with the software. If you want to become a video game designer, this book is an easy- to- use and friendly guide about the world of interactive media. It will teach, challenge, and inspire you to create great interactive projects.Cloud Connectivity and Embedded Sensory Systems
By Lambert Spaanenburg. 2011
Sensor networks are meant to create awareness in space and time They may be measuring the presence of an…
object or a condition characterizing an object stream or a situational pattern or even detect abnormalities that are to occur This book provides new theory on the design of wireless sensor networks based on concepts developed for large-scale distributed computing environments known as cloud computing It provides a single-source entry into the world of intelligent sensory networks with a step-by-step discussion of building case studies that capture the requirements taking into account practical limitations of creating ambient intelligence The reader will not only achieve a better understanding of sensory clouds swarms and flocks but is also guided by examples of how to design such networks taking the typical characteristics of diverse application areas into accountInstant HTML5 Responsive Table Design How-to
By Fernando Monteiro. 2013
Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks.A practical guide to building responsive…
tables optimized for any device. Filled with quick recipes that cover responsive design techniques and make use of open source tools that will make your data easy to understand regardless of device.If you, like so many other developers, are struggling to show data across all devices, this book is for you. Dive into responsive design and master one of the trickiest aspects. You don't need to be an expert; you just need to know the basics of web development.Instant Passbook App Development for iOS How-to
By Keith D. Moon. 2013
Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. A step-by-step guide, focusing on…
simple projects to help you create a Passbook app for iOS 6.Instant Passbook App Development for iOS 6 How-to is for registered Apple iOS developers, experienced in building an app using Objective-C and Xcode, looking to add Passbook functionality to their app. You will need to have an understanding of the JSON format, REST APIs, and a server-side language like Ruby. Familiarity with executing commands via the Terminal app is expected for the exercises within this book.