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Jones, Creed
Virginia Tech
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   First-order methods in optimization
Beck A., SIAM-Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA, 2017. 494 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-611974-98-0)

The author of First-order methods in optimization defines the book’s subject matter as optimization methods that rely on function “values and gradients/subgradients (but not Hessians).” The most fam...

Oct 31 2018  
   Guide to medical image analysis: methods and algorithms (2nd ed.)
Toennies K., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2017. 589 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-447173-18-2)

The analysis of medical images is built on the foundational techniques of general image processing, but incorporates special techniques and methods to account for the nature of medical image acquisition, content, and requirements. This...

Oct 24 2017  
   Advances and applications of optimised algorithms in image processing
Oliva D., Cuevas E., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2016. 178 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319485-49-2)

Image processing is concerned with enhancing, drawing features from, and understanding real-world data represented as a matrix of spatially organized values. Optimization problems are those concerned with maximizing (or minimizing) som...

May 3 2017  
   Compensating for sub-pixel shift in motion estimation
Konstantoudakis K., Machairidou E., Papanikolaou G.  MOCO 2016 (Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Movement and Computing, Thessaloniki, Greece, Jul 5-6, 2016) Article-No. 34, 2016.  Type: Proceedings

Motion estimation in imagery is the process of locating a subimage in two images, a reference and a test image, and precisely determining the displacement. When done to subpixel accuracy, the process generally involves matching an unch...

Sep 28 2016  
   Recent advances in computational intelligence in defense and security
Abielmona R., Falcon R., Zincir-Heywood N., Abbass H., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2015. 752 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319264-48-6)

While it is obvious that computational problems in defense and security are some of the most crucial in existence, involving the lives and homes of people across the world, it’s also true that they are some of the most diffic...

Jul 29 2016  
   Computational music analysis
Meredith D., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2015. 480 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319259-29-1), Reviews: (1 of 2)

A surprisingly large number of people in the computing field are also skilled musicians; this book will certainly appeal to them. However, this is not a volume that only interests the amateur. Important applications of the analysis of ...

Jun 2 2016  
   Advances in healthcare informatics and analytics
Gupta A., Patel V., Greenes R., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2015. 262 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319232-93-5)

The healthcare field is crucial to people’s lives, expensive, constantly increasing in complexity and cost, and dependent on a wide range of disciplines. It is one of the most challenging areas in which to apply advanced anal...

Apr 6 2016  
   Healthcare data analytics
Reddy C., Aggarwal C., Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2015. 760 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-482232-11-0)

Considering all of the current applications of data analytics, the field of healthcare is perhaps the most important. Rising healthcare costs threaten to impact the economies of many nations around the world, and analytics has the pote...

Oct 14 2015  
   Face detection and recognition on mobile devices
Liu H., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., Waltham, MA, 2015. 44 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-124170-45-2)

Mobile devices have unique opportunities to interact with their environment; one key capability in this regard is the detection and recognition of human faces. Uses ranging from security to entertainment can be supported by determining...

Aug 4 2015  
   Computer graphics through OpenGL: from theory to experiments (2nd ed.)
Guha S., A. K. Peters, Ltd., Natick, MA, 2014. 951 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-482258-39-4)

Sumantha Guha has produced the second edition of this textbook on computer graphics as implemented in OpenGL. There are quite a few books of this type suitable for use as a textbook in a college graphics course where OpenGL is the impl...

Jun 1 2015  
 
 
 
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