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Image and Video Compression Fundamentals Techniques and Applications

Image and Video Compression Fundamentals Techniques and Applications

Image and video signals require large transmission bandwidth and storage leading to high costs. The data must be compressed without a loss or with a small loss of quality. Thus efficient image and video compression algorithms play a significant role in the storage and transmission of data. Image and Video Compression: Fundamentals Techniques and Applications explains the major techniques for image and video compression and demonstrates their practical implementation using MATLAB® programs. Designed for students researchers and practicing engineers the book presents both basic principles and real practical applications. In an accessible way the book covers basic schemes for image and video compression including lossless techniques and wavelet- and vector quantization-based image compression and digital video compression. The MATLAB programs enable readers to gain hands-on experience with the techniques. The authors provide quality metrics used to evaluate the performance of the compression algorithms. They also introduce the modern technique of compressed sensing which retains the most important part of the signal while it is being sensed. | Image and Video Compression Fundamentals Techniques and Applications

GBP 59.99
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Introduction to Information Theory and Data Compression

Introduction to Information Theory and Data Compression

An effective blend of carefully explained theory and practical applications this text imparts the fundamentals of both information theory and data compression. Although the two topics are related this unique text allows either topic to be presented independently and it was specifically designed so that the data compression section requires no prior knowledge of information theory. The treatment of information theory while theoretical and abstract is quite elementary making this text less daunting than many others. After presenting the fundamental definitions and results of the theory the authors then apply the theory to memoryless discrete channels with zeroth-order one-state sources. The chapters on data compression acquaint students with a myriad of lossless compression methods and then introduce two lossy compression methods. Students emerge from this study competent in a wide range of techniques. The authors' presentation is highly practical but includes some important proofs either in the text or in the exercises so instructors can if they choose place more emphasis on the mathematics. Introduction to Information Theory and Data Compression Second Edition is ideally suited for an upper-level or graduate course for students in mathematics engineering and computer science. Features:Expanded discussion of the historical and theoretical basis of information theory that builds a firm intuitive grasp of the subjectReorganization of theoretical results along with new exercises ranging from the routine to the more difficult that reinforce students' ability to apply the definitions and results in specific situations. Simplified treatment of the algorithm(s) of Gallager and KnuthDiscussion of the information rate of a code and the trade-off between error correction and information rateTreatment of probabilistic finite state source automata including basic resul

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Vapor Compression Heat Pumps with Refrigerant Mixtures

Vapor Compression Heat Pumps with Refrigerant Mixtures

Amidst tightening requirements for eliminating CFC’s HCFC’s halons and HFC’s from use in air conditioning and heat pumps the search began for replacements that are environmentally benign non-flammable and similar to the banned refrigerants in system-level behavior. Refrigerant mixtures are increasingly used as working fluids because they demonstrate desirable thermodynamic feasibility and safety characteristics. Vapor Compression Heat Pumps with Refrigerant Mixtures provides the first comprehensive single-source treatment of working fluid mixtures and their applications in vapor compression systems. The authors explain in detail the thermodynamics of refrigerant mixtures which is vastly more complex than that of individual refrigerants as well as the fundamentals of various refrigeration cycles and methods for improving their efficiency. They also include important discussions on heat transfer and pressure drop correlations experimental performance measurements and examples of using refrigerants and their mixtures and critical operational issues such as control issues refrigerant mixing and mass fraction shifts. Assembling reviews of the scattered literature on the subject and reflecting two decades of research by the authors Vapor Compression Heat Pumps with Refrigerant Mixtures prepares you to design and implement systems that take the best advantage of fluid mixtures confronting the challenges and grasping the opportunities that they present.

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Image and Video Compression for Multimedia Engineering Fundamentals Algorithms and Standards Third Edition

Image and Video Compression for Multimedia Engineering Fundamentals Algorithms and Standards Third Edition

The latest edition provides a comprehensive foundation for image and video compression. It covers HEVC/H. 265 and future video coding activities in addition to Internet Video Coding. The book features updated chapters and content along with several new chapters and sections. It adheres to the current international standards including the JPEG standard. | Image and Video Compression for Multimedia Engineering Fundamentals Algorithms and Standards Third Edition

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Algorithmic Techniques for the Polymer Sciences

Algorithmic Techniques for the Polymer Sciences

This new book—the first of its kind—examines the use of algorithmic techniques to compress random and non-random sequential strings found in chains of polymers. The book is an introduction to algorithmic complexity. Examples taken from current research in the polymer sciences are used for compression of like-natured properties as found on a chain of polymers. Both theory and applied aspects of algorithmic compression are reviewed. A description of the types of polymers and their uses is followed by a chapter on various types of compression systems that can be used to compress polymer chains into manageable units. The work is intended for graduate and postgraduate university students in the physical sciences and engineering. | Algorithmic Techniques for the Polymer Sciences

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Randomized Phase II Cancer Clinical Trials

Randomized Phase II Cancer Clinical Trials

In cancer research a traditional phase II trial is designed as a single-arm trial that compares the experimental therapy to a historical control. This simple trial design has led to several adverse issues including increased false positivity of phase II trial results and negative phase III trials. To rectify these problems oncologists and biostatisticians have begun to use a randomized phase II trial that compares an experimental therapy with a prospective control therapy. Randomized Phase II Cancer Clinical Trials explains how to properly select and accurately use diverse statistical methods for designing and analyzing phase II trials. The author first reviews the statistical methods for single-arm phase II trials since some methodologies for randomized phase II trials stem from single-arm phase II trials and many phase II cancer clinical trials still use single-arm designs. The book then presents methods for randomized phase II trials and describes statistical methods for both single-arm and randomized phase II trials. Although the text focuses on phase II cancer clinical trials the statistical methods covered can also be used (with minor modifications) in phase II trials for other diseases and in phase III cancer clinical trials. Suitable for cancer clinicians and biostatisticians this book shows how randomized phase II trials with a prospective control resolve the shortcomings of traditional single-arm phase II trials. It provides readers with numerous statistical design and analysis methods for randomized phase II trials in oncology.

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Microcontroller Engineering with MSP432 Fundamentals and Applications

Microcontroller Engineering with MSP432 Fundamentals and Applications

This book aims to develop professional and practical microcontroller applications in the ARM-MDK environment with Texas Instruments MSP432P401R LaunchPad kits. It introduces ARM Cortex-M4 MCU by highlighting the most important elements including: registers pipelines memory and I/O ports. With the updated MSP432P401R Evaluation Board (EVB) MSP-EXP432P401R this MCU provides various control functions with multiple peripherals to enable users to develop and build various modern control projects with rich control strategies. Micro-controller programming is approached with basic and straightforward programming codes to reduce learning curves and furthermore to enable students to build embedded applications in more efficient and interesting ways. For authentic examples 37 Class programming projects are built into the book that use MSP432P401R MCU. Additionally approximately 40 Lab programming projects with MSP432P401R MCU are included to be assigned as homework. | Microcontroller Engineering with MSP432 Fundamentals and Applications

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A Systematic Approach to Learning Robot Programming with ROS

A Systematic Approach to Learning Robot Programming with ROS

A Systematic Approach to Learning Robot Programming with ROS provides a comprehensive introduction to the essential components of ROS through detailed explanations of simple code examples along with the corresponding theory of operation. The book explores the organization of ROS how to understand ROS packages how to use ROS tools how to incorporate existing ROS packages into new applications and how to develop new packages for robotics and automation. It also facilitates continuing education by preparing the reader to better understand the existing on-line documentation. The book is organized into six parts. It begins with an introduction to ROS foundations including writing ROS nodes and ROS tools. Messages Classes and Servers are also covered. The second part of the book features simulation and visualization with ROS including coordinate transforms. The next part of the book discusses perceptual processing in ROS. It includes coverage of using cameras in ROS depth imaging and point clouds and point cloud processing. Mobile robot control and navigation in ROS is featured in the fourth part of the book The fifth section of the book contains coverage of robot arms in ROS. This section explores robot arm kinematics arm motion planning arm control with the Baxter Simulator and an object-grabber package. The last part of the book focuses on system integration and higher-level control including perception-based and mobile manipulation. This accessible text includes examples throughout and C++ code examples are also provided at https://github. com/wsnewman/learning_ros

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FRP-Strengthened Metallic Structures

FRP-Strengthened Metallic Structures

Repairing or strengthening failing metallic structures traditionally involves using bulky and heavy external steel plates that often pose their own problems. The plates are generally prone to corrosion and overall fatigue. Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) a composite material made of a polymer matrix reinforced with fibers offers a great alternative for strengthening metallic structures especially steel structures such as bridges buildings offshore platforms pipelines and crane structures. FRP-Strengthened Metallic Structures explores the behaviour and design of these structures from basic concepts to design recommendations. It covers bond behaviour between FRP and steel and describes improvement of fatigue performance bending compression and bearing forces strengthening of compression and steel tubular members strengthening for enhanced fatigue and seismic performance and strengthening against web crippling of steel sections. It also provides examples of performance improvement by FRP strengthening. • Summarizes worldwide research on the FRP strengthening of metallic structures • Contains several topics not generally covered in existing texts • Presents comprehensive topical references throughout the book The book outlines the applications existing design guidance and special characteristics of FRP composites within the context of their use in structural strengthening. While the major focus is on steel structures it also describes others such as aluminium structures. This book is suitable for structural engineers researchers and university students interested in the FRP strengthening technique. Xiao-Ling Zhao is chair of structural engineering at Monash University Australia and is author of Concrete-Filled Tubular Members and Connections also published by Taylor & Francis.

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Concrete-Filled Stainless Steel Tubular Columns

Concrete-Filled Stainless Steel Tubular Columns

Concrete-filled stainless steel tubular (CFSST) columns are increasingly used in modern composite construction due to their high strength high ductility high corrosion resistance high durability and aesthetics and ease of maintenance. Thin-walled CFSST columns are characterized by the different strain-hardening behavior of stainless steel in tension and in compression local buckling of stainless steel tubes and concrete confinement. Design codes and numerical models often overestimate or underestimate the ultimate strengths of CFSST columns. This book presents accurate and efficient computational models for the nonlinear inelastic analysis and design of CFSST short and slender columns under axial load and biaxial bending. The effects of different strain-hardening characteristics of stainless steel in tension and in compression progressive local and post-local buckling of stainless steel tubes and concrete confinement are taken into account in the computational models. The numerical models simulate the axial load-strain behavior moment-curvature curves axial load-deflection responses and axial load-moment strength interaction diagrams of CFSST columns. The book describes the mathematical formulations computational procedures and model verifications for circular and rectangular CFSST short and slender columns. The behavior of CFSST columns under various loading conditions is demonstrated by numerous numerical examples. This book is written for practising structural and civil engineers academic researchers and graduate students in civil engineering who are interested in the latest computational techniques and design methods for CFSST columns. | Concrete-Filled Stainless Steel Tubular Columns

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Handbook of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Formulations Volume Three Liquid Products

Handbook of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Formulations Volume Three Liquid Products

While liquid drugs do not share the compression problems of solid dosage forms the filling problems of powder dosage forms or the consistency problems of semisolid dosage forms they do have their own set of considerations in the formulation and manufacturing stages. Highlights from Liquid Products Volume Three include: practical details involved in complying with the current good manufacturing practice requirements in liquid manufacturing access to what an FDA auditor would be looking for during a liquid manufacturing audit issues that may arise during a US FDA inspection the protocols used for stability testing for new drugs and new dosage forms drawn from the most current ICH guidelines | Handbook of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Formulations Volume Three Liquid Products

GBP 69.99
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Plastics Fabrication and Recycling

Plastics Fabrication and Recycling

Derived from the fourth edition of the well-known Plastics Technology Handbook Plastics Fabrication and Recycling presents the molding and fabrication processes of plastics as well as several important features of plastics recycling. The book begins with a discussion of different types of molds and dies including compression molding injection molding blow molding thermoforming reaction injection molding extrusion and pultrusion. It then covers spinning casting reinforcing foaming compounding and coating processes as well as powder molding adhesive bonding and plastics welding techniques. The authors also explore the decoration of plastics including painting operations printing processes hot stamping in-mold decorating embossing electroplating and vacuum metallizing. They conclude with an overview on key aspects of plastics recycling developments in the field and waste recycling problems.

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Chemical Thermodynamics and Information Theory with Applications

Chemical Thermodynamics and Information Theory with Applications

Thermodynamics and information touch theory every facet of chemistry. However the physical chemistry curriculum digested by students worldwide is still heavily skewed toward heat/work principles established more than a century ago. Rectifying this situation Chemical Thermodynamics and Information Theory with Applications explores applications drawn from the intersection of thermodynamics and information theory—two mature and far-reaching fields. In an approach that intertwines information science and chemistry this book covers: The informational aspects of thermodynamic state equations The algorithmic aspects of transformations—compression expansion cyclic and more The principles of best-practice programming How molecules transmit and modify information via collisions and chemical reactions Using examples from physical and organic chemistry this book demonstrates how the disciplines of thermodynamics and information theory are intertwined. Accessible to curiosity-driven chemists with knowledge of basic calculus probability and statistics the book provides a fresh perspective on time-honored subjects such as state transformations heat and work exchanges and chemical reactions.

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Hospitality Revenue Management Concepts and Practices

Hospitality Revenue Management Concepts and Practices

This new textbook Hospitality Revenue Management: Concepts and Practices provides a comprehensive in-depth introduction to the basic concepts and best practices of hospitality revenue management. With a real-world hands-on approach the book places students in the role of a revenue manager striving to succeed in an ever-changing hospitality business environment. The book takes a unique multi-author collaborative approach with chapters from outstanding industry leaders who share their experience and provide the information necessary to arm students with the most up-to-date tools and methods they to be effective in the hospitality revenue management field. The chapters cover the important topics in hospitality revenue management including hotel pricing hotel segmentation distribution channels competitive analysis hotel forecasting performance analysis market data supply and demand management and more. | Hospitality Revenue Management Concepts and Practices

GBP 82.99
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Signal Processing A Mathematical Approach Second Edition

Signal Processing A Mathematical Approach Second Edition

Signal Processing: A Mathematical Approach is designed to show how many of the mathematical tools the reader knows can be used to understand and employ signal processing techniques in an applied environment. Assuming an advanced undergraduate- or graduate-level understanding of mathematics—including familiarity with Fourier series matrices probability and statistics—this Second Edition: Contains new chapters on convolution and the vector DFT plane-wave propagation and the BLUE and Kalman filtersExpands the material on Fourier analysis to three new chapters to provide additional background informationPresents real-world examples of applications that demonstrate how mathematics is used in remote sensingFeaturing problems for use in the classroom or practice Signal Processing: A Mathematical Approach Second Edition covers topics such as Fourier series and transforms in one and several variables; applications to acoustic and electro-magnetic propagation models transmission and emission tomography and image reconstruction; sampling and the limited data problem; matrix methods singular value decomposition and data compression; optimization techniques in signal and image reconstruction from projections; autocorrelations and power spectra; high-resolution methods; detection and optimal filtering; and eigenvector-based methods for array processing and statistical filtering time-frequency analysis and wavelets. | Signal Processing A Mathematical Approach Second Edition

GBP 44.99
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Handbook of Differential Entropy

Handbook of Differential Entropy

One of the main issues in communications theory is measuring the ultimate data compression possible using the concept of entropy. While differential entropy may seem to be a simple extension of the discrete case it is a more complex measure that often requires a more careful treatment. Handbook of Differential Entropy provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject for researchers and students in information theory. Unlike related books this one brings together background material derivations and applications of differential entropy. The handbook first reviews probability theory as it enables an understanding of the core building block of entropy. The authors then carefully explain the concept of entropy introducing both discrete and differential entropy. They present detailed derivations of differential entropy for numerous probability models and discuss challenges with interpreting and deriving differential entropy. They also show how differential entropy varies as a function of the model variance. Focusing on the application of differential entropy in several areas the book describes common estimators of parametric and nonparametric differential entropy as well as properties of the estimators. It then uses the estimated differential entropy to estimate radar pulse delays when the corrupting noise source is non-Gaussian and to develop measures of coupling between dynamical system components.

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Urolithiasis Medical and Surgical Management of Stone Disease

Urolithiasis Medical and Surgical Management of Stone Disease

Urolithiasis or stone disease occurs in 7% of women and 12% of men at some point and these statistics are rising. Furthermore for those who form a stone the likelihood of a recurrence is nearly 50% within 5 years of initial diagnosis. Therefore the need for effective minimally invasive alternatives for stone eradication and prevention is critical. Because stone disease comprises a large part of any urologist’s practice a thorough knowledge of the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of stone disease is critical in order to understand and implement treatment strategies to prevent stone formation. Likewise a working knowledge of the surgical treatments instrumentation and outcomes is necessary to arm patients with sufficient information to make an informed decision and to provide the appropriate treatment modality for a given stone situation. In Urolithiasis: Medical and Surgical Management the authors provide a complete guide to the management of stone disease from both a medical and surgical prospective. This book should be an invaluable resource for those who treat stone disease in any capacity whether surgically or medically acutely or long-term. | Urolithiasis Medical and Surgical Management of Stone Disease

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Design Engineer's Handbook

Design Engineer's Handbook

Student design engineers often require a cookbook approach to solving certain problems in mechanical engineering. With this focus on providing simplified information that is easy to retrieve retired mechanical design engineer Keith L. Richards has written Design Engineer’s Handbook. This book conveys the author’s insights from his decades of experience in fields ranging from machine tools to aerospace. Sharing the vast knowledge and experience that has served him well in his own career this book is specifically aimed at the student design engineer who has left full- or part-time academic studies and requires a handy reference handbook to use in practice. Full of material often left out of many academic references this book includes important in-depth coverage of key topics such as: Effects of fatigue and fracture in catastrophic failures Lugs and shear pins Helical compression springs Thick-walled or compound cylinders Cam and follower design Beams and torsion Limits and fits and gear systems Use of Mohr’s circle in both analytical and experimental stress analysis This guide has been written not to replace established primary reference books but to provide a secondary handbook that gives student designers additional guidance. Helping readers determine the most efficiently designed and cost-effective solutions to a variety of engineering problems this book offers a wealth of tables graphs and detailed design examples that will benefit new mechanical engineers from all walks. | Design Engineer's Handbook

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Linux with Operating System Concepts

Linux with Operating System Concepts

A True Textbook for an Introductory Course System Administration Course or a Combination Course Linux with Operating System Concepts Second Edition merges conceptual operating system (OS) and Unix/Linux topics into one cohesive textbook for undergraduate students. The book can be used for a one- or two-semester course on Linux or Unix. It is complete with review sections problems definitions concepts and relevant introductory material such as binary and Boolean logic OS kernels and the role of the CPU and memory hierarchy. Details for Introductory and Advanced Users The book covers Linux from both the user and system administrator positions. From a user perspective it emphasizes command-line interaction. From a system administrator perspective the text reinforces shell scripting with examples of administration scripts that support the automation of administrator tasks. Thorough Coverage of Concepts and Linux Commands The author incorporates OS concepts not found in most Linux/Unix textbooks including kernels file systems storage devices virtual memory and process management. He also introduces computer science topics such as computer networks and TCP/IP interpreters versus compilers file compression file system integrity through backups RAID and encryption technologies booting and the GNUs C compiler. New in this Edition The book has been updated to systemd Linux and the newer services like Cockpit NetworkManager firewalld and journald. This edition explores Linux beyond CentOS/Red Hat by adding detail on Debian distributions. Content across most topics has been updated and improved.

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Soil Engineering Testing Design and Remediation

Soil Engineering Testing Design and Remediation

In the last forty years at least fifty books have been written on the subject of soil mechanics most of them textbooks. Only a few touch on practical applications. Soil Engineering: Testing Design and Remediation supplies the information needed to fill the gap between textbook learning and practical know-how. When engineers deal with major projects such as the Teton Dam or the Leaning Tower of Pisa they need high-tech solutions. More often than not however they deal with the foundations for warehouses schools medium-rise buildings and residential structures projects that need low-tech solutions. Ninety percent of the time consulting engineers don't require mathematical treatment or computer analysis they require experience. Soil engineering problems cannot be resolved with textbook information alone. This book provides the practical meaning of the different aspects of soil mechanics the use of unconfined compression test data the meaning of consolidated tests the practical value of lateral pressure and more. In addition to the technical aspects of foundation investigation in the real world the shadow of litigation looms over every consultant's head. The author covers legal issues in detail. After several years in foundation investigation most consultants realize that soil engineering is a combination of art and science. Soil Engineering: Testing Design and Remediation demystifies this connection and supplies real-world examples of practical applications. This hands-on ready reference will be essential tool for any consultant working in the field. | Soil Engineering Testing Design and Remediation

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Tunable Laser Optics

Tunable Laser Optics

Broadly tunable lasers have had and continue to have an enormous impact in many and diverse fields of science and technology. From a renaissance in spectroscopy to laser guide stars and laser cooling the nexus is the tunable laser. Tunable Laser Optics offers a transparent and comprehensive treatment of the physics of tunable laser optics based on a detailed description of first principles. Authored by a leading expert in the field the book covers the optics and optical principles needed to build lasers the optics instrumentation necessary to characterize laser emission and laser-based optical instrumentation addressing key topics such as Dirac’s notation the interferometric equation the uncertainty principle pulse compression and tunable narrow-linewidth lasers. This revised expanded and improved Second Edition: Contains new and additional material on tunable lasers and quantum optics Explains the first principles of tunable laser optics in a clear and concise manner Presents an explicit exposition of the relevant theory without the use of short cuts Employs numerous examples case studies and figures to illustrate important concepts Includes carefully designed problems of direct practical significance to stimulate application Emphasizing the utilitarian aspects of the optics and theory Tunable Laser Optics Second Edition provides valuable insight into the optics and the trade-offs involved in the design and construction of tunable lasers and optical devices. It makes an ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate-level and graduate-level optics courses for physics and engineering students as well as a handy reference for researchers and experimentalists.

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Advanced Digital Image Processing and Its Applications in Big Data

Advanced Digital Image Processing and Its Applications in Big Data

This book covers the technology of digital image processing in various fields with big data and their applications. Readers will understand various technologies and strategies used in digital image processing as well as handling big data using machine-learning techniques. This book will help to improve the skills of students and researchers in such fields as engineering agriculture and medical imaging. There is a need to be able to understand and analyse the latest developments of digital image technology. As such this book will cover: · Applications such as biomedical science and biometric image processing content-based image retrieval remote sensing pattern recognition shape and texture analysis · New concepts in color interpolation to produce the full color from the sub-pattern bare pattern color prevalent in today's digital cameras and other imaging devices · Image compression standards that are needed to serve diverse applications · Applications of remote sensing medical science traffic management education innovation and analysis in agricultural design and image processing · Both soft and hard computing approaches at great length in relation to major image processing tasks · The direction and development of current and future research in many areas of image processing · A comprehensive bibliography for additional research (integrated within the framework of the book) This book focuses not only on theoretical and practical knowledge in the field but also on the traditional and latest tools and techniques adopted in image processing and data science. It also provides an indispensable guide to a wide range of basic and advanced techniques in the fields of image processing and data science. | Advanced Digital Image Processing and Its Applications in Big Data

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Introduction to NFL Analytics with R

Introduction to NFL Analytics with R

It has become difficult to ignore the analytics movement within the NFL. An increasing number of coaches openly integrate advanced numbers into their game plans and commentators throughout broadcasts regularly use terms such as air yards CPOE and EPA on a casual basis. This rapid growth combined with an increasing accessibility to NFL data has helped create a burgeoning amateur analytics movement highlighted by the NFL’s annual Big Data Bowl. Because learning a coding language can be a difficult enough endeavor Introduction to NFL Analytics with R is purposefully written in a more informal format than readers of similar books may be accustomed to opting to provide step-by-step instructions in a structured jargon-free manner. Key Coverage: • Installing R RStudio and necessary packages • Working and becoming fluent in the tidyverse • Finding meaning in NFL data with examples from all the functions in the nflverse family of packages • Using NFL data to create eye-catching data visualizations • Building statistical models starting with simple regressions and progressing to advanced machine learning models using tidymodels and eXtreme Gradient Boosting The book is written for novices of R programming all the way to more experienced coders as well as audiences with differing expected outcomes. Professors can use Introduction to NFL Analytics with R to provide data science lessons through the lens of the NFL while students can use it as an educational tool to create robust visualizations and machine learning models for assignments. Journalists bloggers and arm-chair quarterbacks alike will find the book helpful to underpin their arguments by providing hard data and visualizations to back up their claims.

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Audio and Speech Processing with MATLAB

Audio and Speech Processing with MATLAB

Speech and audio processing has undergone a revolution in preceding decades that has accelerated in the last few years generating game-changing technologies such as truly successful speech recognition systems; a goal that had remained out of reach until very recently. This book gives the reader a comprehensive overview of such contemporary speech and audio processing techniques with an emphasis on practical implementations and illustrations using MATLAB code. Core concepts are firstly covered giving an introduction to the physics of audio and vibration together with their representations using complex numbers Z transforms and frequency analysis transforms such as the FFT. Later chapters give a description of the human auditory system and the fundamentals of psychoacoustics. Insights results and analyses given in these chapters are subsequently used as the basis of understanding of the middle section of the book covering: wideband audio compression (MP3 audio etc. ) speech recognition and speech coding. The final chapter covers musical synthesis and applications describing methods such as (and giving MATLAB examples of) AM FM and ring modulation techniques. This chapter gives a final example of the use of time-frequency modification to implement a so-called phase vocoder for time stretching (in MATLAB). FeaturesA comprehensive overview of contemporary speech and audio processing techniques from perceptual and physical acoustic models to a thorough background in relevant digital signal processing techniques together with an exploration of speech and audio applications. A carefully paced progression of complexity of the described methods; building in many cases from first principles. Speech and wideband audio coding together with a description of associated standardised codecs (e. g. MP3 AAC and GSM). Speech recognition: Feature extraction (e. g. MFCC features) Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and deep learning techniques such as Long Short-Time Memory (LSTM) methods. Book and computer-based problems at the end of each chapter. Contains numerous real-world examples backed up by many MATLAB functions and code. | Audio and Speech Processing with MATLAB

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Handbook of Statistics in Clinical Oncology

Handbook of Statistics in Clinical Oncology

Many new challenges have arisen in the area of oncology clinical trials. New cancer therapies are often based on cytostatic or targeted agents which pose new challenges in the design and analysis of all phases of trials. The literature on adaptive trial designs and early stopping has been exploding. Inclusion of high-dimensional data and imaging techniques have become common practice and statistical methods on how to analyse such data have been refined in this area. A compilation of statistical topics relevant to these new advances in cancer research this third edition of Handbook of Statistics in Clinical Oncology focuses on the design and analysis of oncology clinical trials and translational research. Addressing the many challenges that have arisen since the publication of its predecessor this third edition covers the newest developments involved in the design and analysis of cancer clinical trials incorporating updates to all four parts: Phase I trials: Updated recommendations regarding the standard 3 + 3 and continual reassessment approaches along with new chapters on phase 0 trials and phase I trial design for targeted agents. Phase II trials: Updates to current experience in single-arm and randomized phase II trial designs. New chapters include phase II designs with multiple strata and phase II/III designs. Phase III trials: Many new chapters include interim analyses and early stopping considerations phase III trial designs for targeted agents and for testing the ability of markers adaptive trial designs cure rate survival models statistical methods of imaging as well as a thorough review of software for the design and analysis of clinical trials. Exploratory and high-dimensional data analyses: All chapters in this part have been thoroughly updated since the last edition. New chapters address methods for analyzing SNP data and for developing a score based on gene expression data. In addition chapters on risk calculators and forensic bioinformatics have been added. Accessible to statisticians and oncologists interested in clinical trial methodology the book is a single-source collection of up-to-date statistical approaches to research in clinical oncology.

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