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Demand-Driven Associative Classification
Av Adriano Veloso, Wagner Meira Jr.
Häftad, 2011
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The ultimate goal of machines is to help humans to solve problems.Such problems range between two extremes: structured problems for which the solution is totally defined (and thus are easily programmed by humans), and random problems for which the solution is completely undefined (and thus cannot …
Voice over IP Security
A Comprehensive Survey of Vulnerabilities and Academic Research
Häftad, 2011
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Voice over IP (VoIP) and Internet Multimedia Subsystem technologies (IMS) are rapidly being adopted by consumers, enterprises, governments and militaries. These technologies offer higher flexibility and more features than traditional telephony (PSTN) infrastructures, as well as the potential for …
Video Processing in the Cloud
Av Rafael Silva Pereira, Karin K. Breitman
Häftad, 2011
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As computer systems evolve, the volume of data to be processed increases significantly, either as a consequence of the expanding amount of available information, or due to the possibility of performing highly complex operations that were not feasible in the past. Nevertheless, tasks that depend on …
Evolutionary Game Design
Häftad, 2011
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The book describes the world's first successful experiment in fully automated board game design. Evolutionary methods were used to derive new rule sets within a custom game description language, and self-play trials used to estimate each derived game's potential to interest human players. The end …
Markov Models for Handwriting Recognition
Av Thomas Plötz, Gernot A. Fink
Häftad, 2011
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Since their first inception, automatic reading systems have evolved substantially, yet the recognition of handwriting remains an open research problem due to its substantial variation in appearance. With the introduction of Markovian models to the field, a promising modeling and recognition …
Guide to ILDJIT
Häftad, 2011
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This book is a guide to getting started with ILDJIT, a compilation framework designed to be both easily extensible and easily configurable. Within this framework, it is possible to build a tool-chain by customizing ILDJIT for specific purposes. Customizations can be used within both static and …
Lossy Image Compression
Domain Decomposition-Based Algorithms
Häftad, 2011
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Image compression is concerned with minimization of the number of information carrying units used to represent an image. Lossy compression techniques incur some loss of information which is usually imperceptible. In return for accepting this distortion, we obtain much higher compression ratios than …
Traffic-Sign Recognition Systems
Av Sergio Escalera, Xavier Baró m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
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This work presents a full generic approach to the detection and recognition of traffic signs. The approach is based on the latest computer vision methods for object detection, and on powerful methods for multiclass classification. The challenge was to robustly detect a set of different sign classes …
Service Placement in Ad Hoc Networks
Av Georg Wittenburg, Jochen Schiller
Häftad, 2012
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Service provisioning in ad hoc networks is challenging given the difficulties of communicating over a wireless channel and the potential heterogeneity and mobility of the devices that form the network. Service placement is the process of selecting an optimal set of nodes to host the implementation …
Software Similarity and Classification
Häftad, 2012
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Software similarity and classification is an emerging topic with wide applications. It is applicable to the areas of malware detection, software theft detection, plagiarism detection, and software clone detection. Extracting program features, processing those features into suitable representations, …
Entropy Guided Transformation Learning: Algorithms and Applications
Av Cícero Nogueira dos Santos, Ruy Luiz Milidiú
Häftad, 2012
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Entropy Guided Transformation Learning: Algorithms and Applications (ETL) presents a machine learning algorithm for classification tasks. ETL generalizes Transformation Based Learning (TBL) by solving the TBL bottleneck: the construction of good template sets. ETL automatically generates templates …
Proof Theory for Description Logics
Häftad, 2012
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Description Logics (DLs) is a family of formalisms used to represent knowledge of a domain. They are equipped with a formal logic-based semantics. Knowledge representation systems based on description logics provide various inference capabilities that deduce implicit knowledge from the explicitly …
Context Management for Distributed and Dynamic Context-Aware Computing
Av Ricardo Couto Antunes da Rocha, Markus Endler
Häftad, 2012
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Research in context-aware computing has produced a number of middleware systems for context management. However, development of ubiquitous context-aware applications is still a challenge because most current middleware systems are still focused on isolated and static context-aware environments. …
Decentralized Reasoning in Ambient Intelligence
Av José Viterbo, Markus Endler
Häftad, 2012
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In Ambient Intelligence (AmI) systems, reasoning is fundamental for triggering actions or adaptations according to specific situations that may be meaningful and relevant to some applications. However, such reasoning operations may need to evaluate context data collected from distributed sources …
Belief Revision in Non-Classical Logics
Häftad, 2012
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Since the advent of the Semantic Web, interest in the dynamics of ontologies (ontology evolution) has grown significantly. Belief revision presents a good theoretical framework for dealing with this problem; however, classical belief revision is not well suited for logics such as Description …
Self-* and P2P for Network Management
Design Principles and Case Studies
Av Clarissa Cassales Marquezan, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville
Häftad, 2012
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The network management community has been pushed towards the design of alternative management approaches able to support heterogeneity, scalability, reliability, and minor human intervention. The employment of self-* properties and Peer-To-Peer (P2P) are seen as promising alternatives, able to …
Robust Motion Detection in Real-Life Scenarios
Av Ester Martínez-Martín, Ángel P. del Pobil
Häftad, 2012
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This work proposes a complete sensor-independent visual system that provides robust target motion detection. First, the way sensors obtain images, in terms of resolution distribution and pixel neighbourhood, is studied. This allows a spatial analysis of motion to be carried out. Then, a novel …
Two-Dimensional Change Detection Methods
Remote Sensing Applications
Häftad, 2012
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Change detection using remotely sensed images has many applications, such as urban monitoring, land-cover change analysis, and disaster management. This work investigates two-dimensional change detection methods. The existing methods in the literature are grouped into four categories: pixel-based, …
Real-Time Detection of Lines and Grids
By PClines and Other Approaches
Av Adam Herout, Markéta Dubská m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
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This text provides a survey of the latest research into the Hough transform for line detection and its contemporary developments. Written with students in mind, this work can serve as a condensed textbook and as a reference for practitioners working in computer vision. The text also presents an …
Energy-Efficient High Performance Computing
Measurement and Tuning
Av James H. Laros III, Kevin Pedretti m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
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In this work, the unique power measurement capabilities of the Cray XT architecture were exploited to gain an understanding of power and energy use, and the effects of tuning both CPU and network bandwidth. Modifications were made to deterministically halt cores when idle. Additionally, …
Guide to Modeling and Simulation of Systems of Systems
User’s Reference
Häftad, 2012
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This user’s reference is a companion to the separate book also titled “Guide to Modelling and Simulation of Systems of Systems.” The principal book explicates integrated development environments to support virtual building and testing of systems of systems, covering in some depth the MS4 Modelling …
Time-of-Flight Cameras
Principles, Methods and Applications
Av Miles Hansard, Seungkyu Lee m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
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Time-of-flight (TOF) cameras provide a depth value at each pixel, from which the 3D structure of the scene can be estimated. This new type of active sensor makes it possible to go beyond traditional 2D image processing, directly to depth-based and 3D scene processing. Many computer vision and …
Motion History Images for Action Recognition and Understanding
Häftad, 2012
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Human action analysis and recognition is a relatively mature field, yet one which is often not well understood by students and researchers. The large number of possible variations in human motion and appearance, camera viewpoint, and environment, present considerable challenges. Some important and …
Data Mining in Large Sets of Complex Data
Av Robson Leonardo Ferreira Cordeiro, Christos Faloutsos m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
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The amount and the complexity of the data gathered by current enterprises are increasing at an exponential rate. Consequently, the analysis of Big Data is nowadays a central challenge in Computer Science, especially for complex data. For example, given a satellite image database containing tens of …
Web Proxy Cache Replacement Strategies
Simulation, Implementation, and Performance Evaluation
Av Hala ElAarag
Häftad, 2012
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This work presents a study of cache replacement strategies designed for static web content. Proxy servers can improve performance by caching static web content such as cascading style sheets, java script source files, and large files such as images. This topic is particularly important in wireless …
Efficient Algorithms for Discrete Wavelet Transform
With Applications to Denoising and Fuzzy Inference Systems
Av K K Shukla, Arvind K. Tiwari
Häftad, 2013
552 kr
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Due to its inherent time-scale locality characteristics, the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) has received considerable attention in signal/image processing. Wavelet transforms have excellent energy compaction characteristics and can provide perfect reconstruction. The shifting (translation) and …
Omnidirectional Vision Systems
Calibration, Feature Extraction and 3D Information
Häftad, 2013
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This work focuses on central catadioptric systems, from the early step of calibration to high-level tasks such as 3D information retrieval. The book opens with a thorough introduction to the sphere camera model, along with an analysis of the relation between this model and actual central …
Introduction to Image Processing Using R
Learning by Examples
Av Alejandro C. Frery, Talita Perciano
Häftad, 2013
625 kr
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This book introduces the statistical software R to the image processing community in an intuitive and practical manner. R brings interesting statistical and graphical tools which are important and necessary for image processing techniques. Furthermore, it has been proved in the literature that R is …
Explaining Algorithms Using Metaphors
Av Michal Forišek, Monika Steinová
Häftad, 2013
716 kr
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There is a significant difference between designing a new algorithm, proving its correctness, and teaching it to an audience. When teaching algorithms, the teacher's main goal should be to convey the underlying ideas and to help the students form correct mental models related to the algorithm. This …
Modeling and Simulating Command and Control
For Organizations Under Extreme Situations
Av Il-Chul Moon, Kathleen M. Carley m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
569 kr
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Commanding and controlling organizations in extreme situations is a challenging task in military, intelligence, and disaster management. Such command and control must be quick, effective, and considerate when dealing with the changing, complex, and risky conditions of the situation. To enable …
