High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC): Algorithms and by Vivienne Sze

By Vivienne Sze

This publication presents builders, engineers, researchers and scholars with unique wisdom concerning the excessive potency Video Coding (HEVC) common. HEVC is the successor to the generally winning H.264/AVC video compression regular, and it presents round two times as a lot compression as H.264/AVC for a similar point of caliber. The purposes for HEVC won't simply hide the distance of the well known present makes use of and functions of electronic video – they are going to additionally contain the deployment of recent companies and the supply of superior video caliber, reminiscent of ultra-high-definition tv (UHDTV) and video with greater dynamic variety, wider diversity of representable colour, and larger illustration precision than what's commonly came across this day. HEVC is the following significant iteration of video coding layout – a versatile, trustworthy and powerful resolution that might help the subsequent decade of video functions and simplicity the weight of video on world-wide community site visitors. This booklet presents an in depth rationalization of many of the elements of the normal, perception into the way it used to be built, and in-depth dialogue of algorithms and architectures for its implementation.

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Ubiquitous multimedia computing by Qing Li, Timothy K. Shih

By Qing Li, Timothy K. Shih

Computing is ubiquitous and in case you imagine differently, that during itself may be the simplest facts that it's so. pcs are omnipresent in sleek existence and the multimedia computing setting of this day is turning into an increasing number of seamless.

Bringing jointly contributions from dozens of prime specialists, Ubiquitous Multimedia Computing educates readers on Ubi-Media Computing on 3 degrees: infrastructures, the place primary applied sciences are being built; middleware, the place the mixing of applied sciences and software program structures remains to be outlined; and purposes, the place its strategies are evolving into real-world items and techniques. In proposing a wealth of latest instructions and new expertise that's altering the way in which we converse, research, play, and stay day-to-day, this e-book –

  • Examines a variety of architectures for offering multimedia content material together with streaming units , instant networks, and numerous hybrids
  • Looks at quickly constructing sensor know-how together with wearable desktops
  • Demonstrates using complicated HCI units that permit the easiest physique gestures to control more and more complicated projects
  • Introduces newsputers that take using embedded picture details in a bunch of functional directions
  • Looks at how ubiquitous computing can dispose of traffic jam and enhance the potency and caliber of scientific care
  • Looks at how computing is personalizing studying environments and revolutionizing our method of the 3 R’s.

While those pages function a well timed reference for researchers operating in all components of product improvement and human laptop interplay, in addition they supply engineers, medical professionals, and plenty of different execs, in addition to educators and graduate scholars with a view that finds the another way invisible seams of this age of ubi-media computing.

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Designing Scientific Applications on GPUs by Raphael Couturier

By Raphael Couturier

Many of today’s advanced clinical purposes now require an enormous volume of computational energy. normal function portraits processing devices (GPGPUs) permit researchers in various fields to learn from the computational strength of all of the cores on hand inside of images cards.

Understand some great benefits of utilizing GPUs for plenty of medical Applications

Designing clinical purposes on GPUs exhibits you the way to take advantage of GPUs for functions in various medical fields, from physics and arithmetic to machine technology. The ebook explains the tools beneficial for designing or porting your medical software on GPUs. it is going to enhance your wisdom approximately photograph processing, numerical functions, method to layout effective functions, optimization tools, and masses more.

Everything you must Design/Port Your clinical program on GPUs

The first a part of the e-book introduces the GPUs and Nvidia’s CUDA programming version, presently the main common setting for designing GPU functions. the second one half specializes in major photograph processing purposes on GPUs. The 3rd half provides normal methodologies for software program improvement on GPUs and the fourth half describes using GPUs for addressing numerous optimization difficulties. The 5th half covers many numerical functions, together with hindrance difficulties, fluid simulation, and atomic physics versions. The final half illustrates agent-based simulations, pseudorandom quantity iteration, and the answer of enormous sparse linear platforms for integer factorization. a few of the codes offered within the booklet can be found online.

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Digital Signal Processing with Matlab Examples, Volume 2: by Jose Maria Giron-Sierra

By Jose Maria Giron-Sierra

This is the second one quantity in a trilogy on smooth sign Processing. the 3 books offer a concise exposition of sign processing issues, and a consultant to aid person sensible exploration in accordance with MATLAB programs.

This moment e-book makes a speciality of contemporary advancements in accordance with the calls for of latest electronic applied sciences. it really is divided into components: the 1st half comprises 4 chapters at the decomposition and restoration of indications, with specific emphasis on photographs. In flip, the second one half comprises 3 chapters and addresses very important data-based activities, corresponding to adaptive filtering, experimental modeling, and classification.

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Practical Poser 8 The Official Guide by Richard H. Schrand

By Richard H. Schrand

Do you need to take your Poser talents past the fundamentals and placed the hot positive factors of puzzle eight into perform without delay? if that is so, youve come to the correct position. «Practical Poser eight: The reliable consultant» is an up-to-date version of this best-selling reference for intermediate to complicated Poser clients. It teaches the projects you will have and wish to understand to get the main out of mystery eight for attaining specialist, commercial-quality paintings. This variation covers the entire new Poser beneficial properties brought within the re-creation of the software program. research texturing and fabric suggestions from a grasp texture artist, and discover the paintings of puzzle professionals within the attractive colour insert part!

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ShaderX3 - Advanced Rendering With DirectX and OpenGL by Wolfgang Engel

By Wolfgang Engel

Welcome to the most recent quantity of ShaderX! This all-new assortment is choked with insightful new options, leading edge techniques to universal difficulties, and useful instruments and methods that can assist you in all components of shader programming. all the articles developed from the paintings and reports of professionals, and the entire sections have been edited by means of shader programming specialists. With the swift advances in DirectX, OpenGL, and snap shots playing cards, vertex and pixel shaders have gotten extra conventional in high-end pics and online game improvement. The demanding situations of learning those recommendations will be daunting for brand new programmers, yet with this entire choice of ready-to-use concepts, they will wake up to hurry quick. And for the more matured programmers, they're going to locate insights and tips that might increase their potency and forestall redundancy. while you're interested by shader programming, it is a must-have reference in your assortment.

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Medical Computer Vision. Large Data in Medical Imaging: by Bjoern Menze, Georg Langs, Albert Montillo, Michael Kelm,

By Bjoern Menze, Georg Langs, Albert Montillo, Michael Kelm, Henning Müller, Zhuowen Tu

This booklet constitutes the completely refereed post-workshop court cases of the 3rd foreign Workshop on clinical laptop imaginative and prescient, MCV 2013, held in Nagoya, Japan, in September 2013 at the side of the sixteenth overseas convention on clinical picture Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2013. The 7 revised complete papers and 12 poster papers awarded have been chosen from 25 submissions. they've been equipped in topical sections on registration and visualization, segmentation, detection and localization, and lines and retrieval. additionally, the amount comprises invited papers describing segmentation activity and knowledge set of the VISCERAL benchmark challenge.

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An Introduction to Verification of Visualization Techniques by Tiago Etiene, Robert M. Kirby, Cláudio T. Silva

By Tiago Etiene, Robert M. Kirby, Cláudio T. Silva

As we raise our reliance on computer-generated info, usually utilizing it as a part of our decision-making technique, we needs to devise instruments to evaluate the correctness of that info. think of, for instance, software program embedded on cars, used for simulating plane functionality, or utilized in clinical imaging. In these circumstances, software program correctness is of paramount value as there is little room for mistakes. software program verification is among the instruments to be had to realize such objectives. Verification is a well-known and extensively studied subfield of laptop technology and computational technological know-how and the objective is to assist us raise self assurance within the software program implementation through verifying that the software program does what it's purported to do. The aim of this publication is to introduce the reader to software program verification within the context of visualization. within the related manner we turned extra depending on advertisement software program, we now have additionally elevated our reliance on visualization software program. the reason being basic: visualization is the lens wherein clients can comprehend advanced facts, and as such it has to be validated. The explosion in our skill to accumulate information calls for instruments not just to shop and study facts, but additionally to imagine it. This ebook is created from six chapters. After an advent to the objectives of the publication, we current a quick description of either worlds of visualization (Chapter 2) and verification (Chapter 3). We then continue to demonstrate the most steps of the verification pipeline for visualisation algorithms. We concentrate on vintage quantity visualization concepts, specifically, Isosurface Extraction (Chapter four) and Direct quantity Rendering (Chapter 5). We clarify easy methods to be certain implementations of these recommendations and document the newest ends up in the sphere of verification of visualization recommendations. The final bankruptcy concludes the ebook and highlights new examine themes for the long run.

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