50 Fast Photoshop "X" Techniques for is an immensely useful book for anyone wanting to take advantage of the very latest release of the world's top digital imaging tool, Adobe Photoshop. The techniques are valuable to both pros and hobbyists alike - they enable everyone to enjoy successful creation of fine art images and prints! The step-by-step and richly illustrated collection of awesome techniques are easily accessible and understandable to users on every level. This is a new kind of Photoshop book-one that can help both casual users through professional users save time while creating professional quality images and effects!

Absolute Beginner's Guide to WordPerfect 11 reveals all the secrets necessary to meet your word processing needs. This guide starts from the very beginning and then takes you step-by-step through the essential tasks to produce any type of document, including: letters, invoices, lists, reports, newsletters, invitations, charts, presentations, spreadsheets, and much more. With its lighthearted tone and straightforward approach, you'll be using WordPerfect 11 with confidence in no time!

Книга посвящена обучению работе с пакетом векторной графики Adobe Illustrator CS2. Она создана на основе практического курса, поэтому каждая глава соответствует одному уроку, рассчитанному на 4 академических часа. Рассматриваются вопросы настройки и работы с интерфейсом программы, создание и обработка кривых, работа с цветом и текстом, преобразование и монтаж объектов при работе с иллюстрациями, а также использование специальных эффектов и фильтров. В конце каждой главы приводятся задания для самостоятельного создания оригинал-макета реальной печатной продукции. Книга может использоваться и в качестве самоучителя, и как учебное пособие во время занятий на курсах. Для широкого круга пользователей.

The quadtree and octree are hierarchical data structures used to represent spatial data. They are based on the principle of recursive decomposition (similar to divide and con- conquer methods [Aho74]). This book focuses on the use of quadtree and octree representations of region data (in two and three dimensions, respectively) in applications in computer graphics, image processing, and geographic information systems (Gis), as well as computer vision, robotics, pattern recognition, solid modeling, and other areas. For a comprehensive treatment of related hierarchical representations of spatial data including points, lines, rectangles, regions, and volumes, see [Same90a]. To many people, the terms quadtree and octree have taken on a generic meaning synonymous with the term hierarchical data structure. Hierarchical data structures are useful because of their ability to focus on the interesting subsets of the data. This focusing results in an efficient representation and in improved execution times. Thus they are particularly convenient for performing set operations. Many of the operations described can often be performed as efficiently, or more so, with other data structures. Nevertheless, hierarchical data structures are attractive because of their conceptual clarity and ease of implementation. In addition, the use of some of them provides a spatial index. This is very useful in applications involving spatial databases.

Color Theory and Modeling for Computer Graphics, Visualization, and Multimedia Applications deals with color vision and visual computing. This book provides an overview of the human visual system with an emphasis on color vision and perception. The book then goes on to discuss how human color vision and perception are applied in several applications using computer-generated displays, such as computer graphics and information and data visualization. Color Theory and Modeling for Computer Graphics, Visualization, and Multimedia Applications is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate-level course on computer graphics, computer imaging, or multimedia computing and as a reference for researchers and practitioners developing computer graphics and multimedia applications.

Under Stalin's leadership, the Soviet government carried out a massive number of deportations, incarcerations, and executions. Paradoxically, at the very moment that Soviet authorities were killing thousands of individuals, they were also engaged in an enormous pronatalist campaign to boost the population. Even as the number of repressions grew exponentially, Communist Party leaders enacted sweeping social welfare and public health measures to safeguard people's well-being. Extensive state surveillance of the population went hand in hand with literacy campaigns, political education, and efforts to instill in people an appreciation of high culture. In Cultivating the Masses, David L. Hoffmann examines the Party leadership's pursuit of these seemingly contradictory policies in order to grasp fully the character of the Stalinist regime, a regime intent on transforming the socioeconomic order and the very nature of its citizens. To analyze Soviet social policies, Hoffmann places them in an international comparative context. He explains Soviet technologies of social intervention as one particular constellation of modern state practices. These practices developed in conjunction with the ambitions of nineteenth-century European reformers to refashion society, and they subsequently prompted welfare programs, public health initiatives, and reproductive regulations in countries around the world. The mobilizational demands of World War I impelled political leaders to expand even further their efforts at population management, via economic controls, surveillance, propaganda, and state violence. Born at this moment of total war, the Soviet system institutionalized these wartime methods as permanent features of governance. Party leaders, whose dictatorship included no checks on state power, in turn attached interventionist practices to their ideological goal of building socialism.

Область ЦОС развивается очень быстро, поэтому большинство книг по этому предмету не отражают реальной действительности разработки алгоритмов, кодирование для приложений и разработки ПО. Эта книга позволит получить необходимые знания в области ЦОС специалистам, которые уже работают с компьютерными системами. Таким образом они получат те знания, которые необходимы чтобы начать работу с реальными проблемами сегодняшнего дня такими как кодирование речи, распознование образом, проектирование модемов и т.д. Автор проводит читателя через многие сложные темы, наглядно демонтсрируя как каждая из них устроена внутри и где те или иные знания можно применить.

Digital signal processing (DSP) refers to anything that can be done to a signal using code on a computer or DSP chip. To reduce certain sinusoidal frequency components in a signal in amplitude, digital filtering is done. One may want to obtain the integral of a signal. If the signal comes from a tachometer, the integral gives the position. If the signal is noisy, then filtering the signal to reduce the amplitudes of the noise frequencies improves signal quality. For example, noise may occur from wind or rain at an outdoor music presentation. Filtering out sinusoidal components of the signal that occur at frequencies that cannot be produced by the music itself results in recording the music with little wind and rain noise. Sometimes the signal is corrupted not by noise, but by other signal frequencies that are of no present interest. If the signal is an electronic measurement of a brain wave obtained by using probes applied externally to the head, other electronic signals are picked up by the probes, but the physician may be interested only in signals occurring at a particular frequency. By using digital filtering, the signals of interest only can be presented to the physician.

Обработка изображений от радаров, в общем случае, состоит из трех больших разделов: Цифровая обработка сигналов (ЦОС), антены и радары, и алгоритмы используемые для обработки избражений от радаров. В книге представлены материалы сразу из этих разных областей, что позволяет читателю добиться понимания того как обрабатываются изображения от радаров. Книга разбита на три большите части: 1) принципы ЦОС, и особенности аналоговых и цифровых сигналов, улучшенные методы дискретизации, и способы интерполяции 2) Теория антен (уравнения Максвела), основы радаров, модуляции и др. 3) Свойства изображений от радаров, алгоритмы используемые для обработки этих изображений, результаты моделирования и др. Текст книги ярко иллюстрирован примерами.

This supplement to any standard DSP text is one of the first books to successfully integrate the use of MATLAB® in the study of DSP concepts. In this book, MATLAB® is used as a computing tool to explore traditional DSP topics, and solve problems to gain insight. This greatly expands the range and complexity of problems that students can effectively study in the course. Since DSP applications are primarily algorithms implemented on a DSP processor or software, a fair amount of programming is required. Using interactive software such as MATLAB® makes it possible to place more emphasis on learning new and difficult concepts than on programming algorithms. Interesting practical examples are discussed and useful problems are explored. This updated printing revises the scripts in the book, available functions, and m-files (available for downloading from the Brooks/Cole Bookware Companion Resource Series? Center Web site) to MATLAB® V5 (created with 5.3).

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This book brings together everything you need to achieve superior results with PC-based image processing and analysis. Expert Thomas Klinger combines a highly accessible overview of the field's key concepts, tools, and techniques; the first expert introduction to NI's breakthrough IMAQ Vision software; and several start-to-finish application case studies. You also get an extensive library of code and image samples, as well as a complete trial version of IMAQ Vision for Windows.