Rafael Molina – författare

All Francis Fische has ever wanted is love and acceptance.His mother died the day he was born, leaving his father emotionally absent. Raised by a grandmother whose love comes with quiet control, Francis searches for something that always feels just out of reach.But life begins to change when he meets Mitch, a loud and reckless friend who pulls him from the lonely world he lives in. And when Mitch's cousin, Eve, enters his life, Francis experiences feelings he doesn't yet understand, feelings that awaken the hope that perhaps he has finally found somewhere he belongs.But growing up means learning how quickly happiness can slip away. In a world that often feels stacked against him, Francis finds himself caught in a life shaped by grief, loneliness, and tragedy, where every step toward love seems shadowed by the fear of losing it.A story of love, loneliness, and trying to belong.Because in a world full of sharks, Francis has always been a fish.

Brian Mueller sees what no one else wants to admit, that his family is heading toward tragedy.He sees it in his father's drinking, his mother's silence, and his older brother Cody's growing obsession.But Brian refuses to accept that ending, even when it becomes clear how difficult it is to save someone who doesn't believe they're in danger.As the clouds close in and his family drifts closer to catastrophe, Brian finds himself racing against the storm he has always feared, desperately trying to save both himself and his brother before it's too late.A story of brotherhood, fear, and the heartbreaking limits of love.When the storm clears, will there be anyone left to save?

Most of Naomi's life has been spent caring for others through illness, grief, and loss, all while quietly running from her own past.But when she meets Bill, a man worn down by tragedy and searching for peace, their unexpected friendship becomes something more. Together, they begin a quiet journey of healing, confronting old wounds and finding the fragile courage needed to accept their mistakes.A story about compassion, resilience, and simply being present for someone else.Because sometimes the greatest gift you can offer isn't saving a life, but walking beside someone to the very end.

This book focuses on the super resolution of images and video. The authors’ use of the term super resolution (SR) is used to describe the process of obtaining a high resolution (HR) image, or a sequence of HR images, from a set of low resolution (LR) observations. This process has also been referred to in the literature as resolution enhancement (RE). SR has been applied primarily to spatial and temporal RE, but also to hyperspectral image enhancement. This book concentrates on motion based spatial RE, although the authors also describe motion free and hyperspectral image SR problems. Also examined is the very recent research area of SR for compression, which consists of the intentional downsampling, during pre-processing, of a video sequence to be compressed and the application of SR techniques, during post-processing, on the compressed sequence. It is clear that there is a strong interplay between the tools and techniques developed for SR and a number of other inverse problems encountered in signal processing (e.g., image restoration, motion estimation). SR techniques are being applied to a variety of fields, such as obtaining improved still images from video sequences (video printing), high definition television, high performance color Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) screens, improvement of the quality of color images taken by one CCD, video surveillance, remote sensing, and medical imaging. The authors believe that the SR/RE area has matured enough to develop a body of knowledge that can now start to provide useful and practical solutions to challenging real problems and that SR techniques can be an integral part of an image and video codec and can drive the development of new coder-decoders (codecs) and standards.

This book focuses on the super resolution of images and video. The authors’ use of the term super resolution (SR) is used to describe the process of obtaining a high resolution (HR) image, or a sequence of HR images, from a set of low resolution (LR) observations. This process has also been referred to in the literature as resolution enhancement (RE). SR has been applied primarily to spatial and temporal RE, but also to hyperspectral image enhancement. This book concentrates on motion based spatial RE, although the authors also describe motion free and hyperspectral image SR problems. Also examined is the very recent research area of SR for compression, which consists of the intentional downsampling, during pre-processing, of a video sequence to be compressed and the application of SR techniques, during post-processing, on the compressed sequence. It is clear that there is a strong interplay between the tools and techniques developed for SR and a number of other inverse problems encountered in signal processing (e.g., image restoration, motion estimation). SR techniques are being applied to a variety of fields, such as obtaining improved still images from video sequences (video printing), high definition television, high performance color Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) screens, improvement of the quality of color images taken by one CCD, video surveillance, remote sensing, and medical imaging. The authors believe that the SR/RE area has matured enough to develop a body of knowledge that can now start to provide useful and practical solutions to challenging real problems and that SR techniques can be an integral part of an image and video codec and can drive the development of new coder-decoders (codecs) and standards.