Blend the power of Qt with OpenCV to build cross-platform computer vision applications About This Book • Start creating robust applications with the power of OpenCV and Qt combined • Learn from scratch how to develop cross-platform computer vision applications • Accentuate your OpenCV applications by developing them...

This book discusses in detail the basic algorithms of video compression that are widely used in modern video codec. The authors dissect complicated specifications and present material in a way that gets readers quickly up to speed by describing video compression algorithms succinctly, without going to the mathematic...

This book is an accessible guide to adaptive signal processing methods that equips the reader with advanced theoretical and practical tools for the study and development of circuit structures and provides robust algorithms relevant to a wide variety of application scenarios. Examples include multimodal and multimedi...

The creation, accumulation, and use of copious amounts of data are driving rapid change across a wide variety of industries and academic disciplines. This ‘Big Data’ phenomenon is the result of recent developments in computational technology and improved data gathering techniques that have led to substantial innovat...

A hands-on introduction to coding that teaches you how to program bots to do cool things in the game you love--Minecraft! This book takes the robotic "turtle" method, and extends it to the 3D, interactive world of Minecraft. You've mined for diamonds, crafted dozens of tools, and built all sorts of structures--but w...

This brief covers the emerging area of wireless sensor network (WSN)-based structural health monitoring (SHM) systems, and introduces the authors’ WSN-based platform called SenetSHM. It helps the reader differentiate specific requirements of SHM applications from other traditional WSN applications, and demonstrates ...

This book constitutes the conference proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, which was held in October 2017 in London, UK. The 28 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. The traditional focus of the IDA symposium series is on ...

This textbook explores both the theoretical foundation of the Finite Volume Method (FVM) and its applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Readers will discover a thorough explanation of the FVM numerics and algorithms used for the simulation of incompressible and compressible fluid flows, along with a det...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of automatic model refinement, which helps readers close the gap between initial textual specification and its desired implementation. The authors enable readers to follow two “directions” for refinement: Vertical refinement, for adding detail and precision to single descr...

Quickly write innovative programs for your micro:bitーno experience necessary! This easy-to-follow guide shows, step-by-step, how to quickly get started with programming and creating fun applications on your micro:bit.. Written in the straightforward style that Dr. Simon Monk is famous for, Programming the BBC micro...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post conference proceedings of the 4th edition of the Semantic Web Evaluation Challenge, SemWebEval 2017, co-located with the 14th European Semantic Web conference, held in Portoroz, Slovenia, in May/June 2017. This book includes the descriptions of all methods and tools...

Collect and scrape different complexities of data from the modern Web using the latest tools, best practices, and techniques Key FeaturesLearn different scraping techniques using a range of Python libraries such as Scrapy and Beautiful SoupBuild scrapers and crawlers to extract relevant information from the webAutom...

This book provides information on how one should code when using Python and what attributes of Python can be used to make the program simple. You can never trust someone who says they know everything about programming. New versions of Python are built regularly to improve the user experience. This book provides info...

The latest groundbreaking digital advertising tactics from Martyn Cook a leading Facebook™ Advertising expert and Digital Marketer. From the author" "For the last 10 years I have been advertising online. With millions of dollars spent and multi-millions dollars earned across a plethora of niches, categories and chan...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2017, held in Modena, Italy, in January 2017. The 15 papers presented were carefully selected from 25 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: bibliometrics and education; multimed...

Why this book can help you to get started fast with Card Games and Unity It can be intimidating to start with Unity, and while several books can provide comprehensive information, you may, like many other readers, just want to focus on a specific topic and get started fast. This book is part of a series entitled "Qu...