Shape Analysis and Retrieval of Multimedia Objects provides a comprehensive survey of the most advanced and powerful shape retrieval techniques used in practice today. In addition, this monograph addresses key methodological issues for evaluation of the shape retrieval methods. Shape Analysis and Retrieval of Multimedia Objects is designed to meet the needs of practitioners and researchers in industry, and graduate-level students in Computer Science.

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Describes the features of the Mental ray computer program.

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Provides information on using digital cameras, viewing pictures, erasing pictures, sharing pictures online, and printing pictures. (view table of contents)

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Explains how to take professional digital photographs and offers advice on maximizing the impact of digital photographs in advertising, art, and graphic design.

Demonstrates the computer graphics program's newest features and offers advice integrating Photoshop with other applications, special effects, layering, lighting, and photograph repair. (view table of contents)

Presents step-by-step instructions on using Adobe Photoshop 7, covering such topics as analog and digital images, channels and masks, and creating and managing paths. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This volume provides a collection of sixteen articles containing review and new material. In a unified way, they describe the recent development of theories and methodologies in pattern recognition, image processing and vision using fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, rough sets and wavelets with significant real life applications...read more

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Topics covered include the illustrator environment, creating text elements, drawing and painting, and publishing and distribution. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This IMA Volume in Mathematics and its Applications FRACTALS IN MULTIMEDIA is a result of a very successful three-day minisymposium on the same title. The event was an integral part of the IMA annual program on Mathemat­ ics in Multimedia, 2000-2001...read more

Product Description: Written by educators, for educators, the Against the Clock series is the complete solution for courses in Graphic Multimedia or Web Design Software. The hands-on, project-based texts are packaged with resource CD-ROMs that contain all the files needed to create the step-by-step projects in the text...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text presents information on communication networks and systems as presented at the 5th IEEE International Conference Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FGR 2002). (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume contains papers selected for presentation at the5thIAPRWo- shoponDocumentAnalysisSystems(DAS2002) in Princeton, NJ on August 19-21, 2002. As such, it represents the contributions of an international com- nity of academic, industrial, and government researchers and re?ects the state of the art in such diverse domains as character recognition and classi?er design, text segmentation, table understanding, page layout analysis, and document - gineering, indexing, and retrieval, along with emerging application areas incl- ing the World-Wide Web, where algorithms developed for "traditional" paper documents take their place alongside completely new techniques...read more

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Product Description: A unique collection of algorithms and lab experiments for practitioners and researchers of digital image processing technology With the field of digital image processing rapidly expanding, there is a growing need for a book that would go beyond theory and techniques to address the underlying algorithms...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A guide to buying and using a scanner offers tips on troubleshooting

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