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Treu, Siegfried
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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  Guest Editor’s Introduction: Parallel Processing for Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Choudhary A., Ranka S. Computer 25(2): 7-10, 1992.  Type: Article

In this introduction to a special issue of Computer, the authors characterize the importance of parallel computing to image processing in computer vision, one of the “grand challenges” in the US government&am...

Jun 1 1993  
  Harvard Graphics
Danuloff C., Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 1990.  Type: Book (9780201523690)

As stated on its cover, this book is intended to be “the complete reference for beginning to advanced users” of Harvard Graphics. It is definitely a reference book, not a text on graphics. It contains no references ...

Jul 1 1992  
  Making them move
Badler N., Barsky B., Zeltzer D., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 1991.  Type: Book (9781558601062)

Fifteen contributions to the April 1989 invitational Workshop on the Mechanics, Control, and Animation of Articulated Figures are collected in this book. The workshop was organized by the editors and conducted at the MIT Media Lab. App...

Jul 1 1992  
  3D interactive computer graphics
Teunissen W., van den Bos J., Ellis Horwood, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1990.  Type: Book (9780139218675)

With reference to previous graphics standards efforts, especially GKS-3D [1] and PHIGS [2], the motivation for this book is outlined clearly by the authors in the introductory chapter 1. They observe that previous proposals have a numb...

Sep 1 1991  
  Using computer color effectively: an illustrated reference
Thorell L., Smith W., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1990.  Type: Book (9789780139398780)

The authors state in the preface that many answers to questions about the effective use of color come from “technical publications from physiologists, psychologists, physicists and human factors engineers. However, the answer...

Feb 1 1991  
  Transport protocol requirements for distributed multimedia information systems
Ngoh L., Hopkins T. The Computer Journal 32(3): 252-261, 1989.  Type: Article

Multimedia documents contain different types of information (such as text, graphics, and voice). Distributed multimedia information systems (DMISs), based on clusters of loosely coupled workstations connected via high-speed LANs, are d...

Jul 1 1990  
  Hierarchical Data Structures and Algorithms for Computer Graphics. Part I.
Samet H., Webber R. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 8(3): 48-68, 1988.  Type: Article

The authors first draw a distinction between the data formats of raster graphics (2-dimensional arrays) and vector graphics (linked lists of line segments). The two models in turn give rise to a discussion of the well-known image space...

Apr 1 1989  
  Computer graphics programming: GKS, the graphics standard (2nd ed., revised and enlarged)
Enderle G., Kansy K., Pfaff G., Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., New York, NY, 1987.  Type: Book (9789780387163178)

As its title indicates, this book is about computer graphics programming based on the Graphical Kernel System (GKS) international standard. The foreword says that the material is aimed at graphics programmers as well as at graphics use...

Apr 1 1989  
  Progress in the development of CAD/CAM interfaces for transfer of product definition data
Schuster R. (ed)  Product data interfaces in CAD/CAM applications: design, implementation and experiences (, Technical Univ. of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, W. Germany, 2511986.  Type: Proceedings

CAD/CAM product design data are said to “contain information about an object--or parts of an object--and . . . permit its subsequent manufacture on the basis of an internal computer model.” The lat...

Feb 1 1988  
  Introduction to the Graphical Kernel System (GKS) (2nd ed. revised for international standard)
Hopgood F., Duce D., Gallop J., Sutcliffe D., Academic Press Ltd., London, UK, 1986.  Type: Book (9789780123555717)

The specification of a technical standard, regardless of how useful or important it might be, is by its very nature less than exciting for the reader. It can be a cumbersome exercise to pore over and attempt to assimilate the listings ...

Jul 1 1987  
 
 
 
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