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Charlie McButton likes computer games so much, he never plays with anything else. When a thunderstorm knocks out the electricity, his tech empire comes tumbling down, and his whole world loses power.

Mrs. Yonkers, the computer teacher, is the nerdiest teacher in the history of the world. She can type with her feet! She buys foam cheeseheads off eBay! She even puts a Webcam on a turtle! Is she tryi

This volume gives language teachers, software designers, and researchers who wish to use technology in second or foreign language education the information they need to absorb what has been achieved so far and to make sense of it. It is designed to enable the kind of critical reading of a substantial literature that leads to a balanced and detailed knowledge of the field. Chapter by chapter, the book builds, through description, analysis, examples, and discussion, a detailed picture of modern CALL.In this book, the label “CALL” is interpreted broadly to include technology-enhanced language learning, Web-enhanced language learning, and information and communication technologies for language learning. The work is distinguished by its attention to a range of languages rather than just English.The authors first set the scene and introduce major areas of interest and growth in CALL, and then look in depth at seven important dimensions: design, evaluation, computer-mediated communication, th

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. A struggling writer and a computer with a mind of its own fight for control of the writer's story and destiny. When Frank Wormold buys a compute

New York City, 1972—A dabbler in mathematics and chess, Catherine Velis is also a computer expert for a Big Eight accounting firm. Before heading off to a new assignment in Algeria, Cat has her palm r

Computer vision has widespread and growing application including robotics, autonomous vehicles, medical imaging and diagnosis, surveillance, video analysis, and even tracking for sports analysis. This book equips the reader with crucial mathematical and algorithmic tools to develop a thorough understanding of the underlying components of any complete computer vision system and to design such systems. These components include identifying local features such as corners or edges in the presence of noise, edge preserving smoothing, connected component labeling, stereopsis, thresholding, clustering, segmentation, and describing and matching both shapes and scenes. The extensive examples include photographs of faces, cartoons, animal footprints, and angiograms, and each chapter concludes with homework exercises and suggested projects. Intended for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, the text will also be of use to practitioners and researchers in a range of applications.

Group and Crowd Behavior for Computer Vision provides a multidisciplinary perspective on how to solve the problem of group and crowd analysis and modeling, combining insights from the social sciences

This book summarises the state of the art in computer vision-based driver and road monitoring, focussing on monocular vision technology in particular, with the aim to address challenges of driver assi

Computer Vision and Imaging in Intelligent Transportation Systems Robert P. Loce, PARC, A Xerox Company, USA Raja Bala, Samsung Research America, USA Mohan Trivedi, University of California, USA

IP, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition is a compendium of articles and papers that were presented at IPCV '16, an international conference that serves researchers, scholars, professionals, stude

The First International Conference on Advancement of Computer, Communication and Electrical Technology focuses on the key technologies and recent progress on computer vision, information technology ap

Computer Vision in Vehicle Technology: Land, Sea & Air Antonio M. López, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Atsushi Imiya, Chiba University, Japan Tomas Pajdla, Czech Technical University, P

Evolutionary computing offers some excellent paradigms for solving computer vision problems. The author is among the leading researchers in this field, and in this book he explains the explains the pr

Computer Vision Technology for Food Quality Evaluation, Second Edition, continues to be a valuable resource to engineers, researchers, and technologists in research and development, as well as a compl

Pattern recognition, image processing and computer vision are closely linked areas which have seen enormous progress in the last fifty years. Their applications in our daily life, commerce and industr

IP, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition is a compendium of articles and papers that were presented at IPCV '15, an international conference that serves researchers, scholars, professionals, stude

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference, VISIGRAPP 2014, consisting of the Joint Conferences on Computer Vision (VISAPP), the International Conference on Compute

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) together play an important role in the processes involved in environmental informatics due to their pervasive, non-destructive, effective, and efficient

This book is focused on the recent advances in computer vision methodologies and technical solutions using conventional and intelligent paradigms. The Contributions include:· Morphological Image Anal

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference, VISIGRAPP 2013 consisting of the Joint Conferences on Computer Vision (VISAPP), the International Conference on Comp

The research book is focused on the recent advances in computer vision methodologies and innovations in practice. The Contributions include:· Human Action Recognition: Contour-Based and Silhouette-ba

In its revised and updated new edition, this book introduces the foundations of three-dimensional computer vision and surveys recent innovations. Describes applications in industrial quality inspectio

This book presents an interdisciplinary selection of cutting-edge research on RGB-D based computer vision. Features: discusses the calibration of color and depth cameras, the reduction of noise on dep

This book is a collection representing some of the most powerful and useful computer techniques in the service of art. Combining contributions from peer-reviewed journals of computer vision, image ana

This book presents a thorough overview of fusion in computer vision, from an interdisciplinary and multi-application viewpoint, describing successful approaches, evaluated in the context of internatio

Addressing the need for a concise and accessible introduction to the complex field of computer vision, this text reinforces its presentation of the essential topics with class-tested exercises. The co

The subjects of computer vision and image processing have advanced very much over the past 5 years, and keeping up to date in this fast-moving subject area can be very challenging.The Second Edition o

Computer graphics (or CG) has changed the way we experience the art of moving images.Computer graphics is the difference between Steamboat Willie and Buzz Lightyear, between ping pongand PONG. It bega

The four-volume set LNCS 7724--7727 constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2012, held in Daejeon, Korea, in November 2012

The four-volume set LNCS 7724--7727 constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2012, held in Daejeon, Korea, in November 2012

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference, VISIGRAPP 2011, the Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Theory and Applications (VISAPP), on Imaging Theory and Applica

Over 90 highly-effective recipes to unleash your creativity with interactive art, graphics, computer vision, 3D, and more Explore the Processing language with a broad range of practical recipes for

An introduction to the use of abstraction in interactive computer graphics, emphasizing zooming and rendering techniques and discussing benefits for medical and technical applications.

If you want a basic understanding of computer vision’s underlying theory and algorithms, this hands-on introduction is the ideal place to start. You’ll learn techniques for object recognition, 3D reco

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference, VISIGRAPP 2010, the Joint Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), on Imaging Theory and Applicat

In this book, we look at how cluster technology can be leveraged to build better robots. Algorithms and approaches in key areas of robotics and computer vision, such as map building, path planning, ta

The recent emergence of Local Binary Patterns (LBP) has led to significant progress in applying texture methods to various computer vision problems and applications. The focus of this research has bro

With a background in computer science and mathematics, Lengyel has been writing game engines for over 16 years. Here he describes the mathematical techniques that a software engineer needs to develop

How computer technologies and digital fabrication techniques give architects unprecedented tools for crafting performance and aesthetics through cross-disciplinary collaboration.

The CCIS series is devoted to the publication of proceedings of computer science conferences. Its aim is to efficiently disseminate original research results in informatics in printed and electronic f