Authors
- World Trade Organization
- Bernan Press
Publication date: 1999-02
Dewey code: 004
List Price: $85.00
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Review World Trade Organization (Wto) Trade Policy Review 1998 Cd (1995 - 1997 / Bernan Press(PA):
Publication date: 1999-08
Dewey code: 004
Price: $227.44
Review Staghorn Corals of the World: A Revision of the Genus Acropora / Csiro:Staghorn corals (genus Acropora) are the most obvious and important corals on coral reefs throughout the world, providing much of the beauty and variety seen on the reefs. This invaluable reference tool, the first major review of Acropora in over 100 years, synthesizes all we know about the genus. It assesses all the known species worldwide, describing each in detail and illustrating the range of variability of form with habitat and geographic location. The classification, evolution and world-wide distribution of all species are reviewed and illustrated with colour plates, full page black and white plates and distribution maps. Details of the general biology of staghorn corals are discussed and illustrated. The book is complemented by a CD-ROM, Staghorn Corals of the World: A Key to Species of Acropora CD-ROM, containing a LucID-based key to all species of Acropora and a photographic database of type specimens from museums around the world. This book will be welcomed by reef workers and coral workers everywhere. "This is an outstanding and vital piece of work, the culmination of the author's lifetime research on this difficult but fundamentally important genus. " Brian Rosen - Natural History Museum, London.
Creator: Julia Hirschberg
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-01-15
Dewey code: 006.54
List Price: $198.00
Price: $158.40
Review Progress in Speech Synthesis / Springer:For a machine to convert text into sounds that humans can understand as speech requires an enormous range of components, from abstract analysis of discourse structure to synthesis and modulation of the acoustic output. Work in the field is thus inherently interdisciplinary, involving linguistics, computer science, acoustics, and psychology. This collection of articles by leading researchers in each of the fields involved in text-to-speech synthesis provides a picture of recent work in laboratories throughout the world and of the problems and challenges that remain. By providing samples of synthesized speech as well as video demonstrations for several of the synthesizers discussed, the book will also allow the reader to judge what all the work adds up to - that is, how good is the synthetic speech we can now produce? Topics covered include: > Signal processing and source modeling > Linguistic analysis > Articulatory synthesis and visual speech > Concatenative synthesis and automated segmentation > Prosodic analysis of natural speech > Synthesis of prosody > Evaluation and perception > Systems and applications The CD-ROM included with the book is configured to work with Macintosh(R), UNIX, and Windows(R) operating systems; it contains the full text of the book as well as the samples and demonstrations.
Publication date: 1992-01
Dewey code: 621.38602856454
Price: $100.00
Review Voice Information Systems / Blackwell Pub:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-11-30
Dewey code: 621.367
List Price: $199.00
Price: $159.20
Review Still Image Compression on Parallel Computer Architectures / Springer:Still Image Compression on Parallel Computer Architectures investigates the application of parallel-processing techniques to digital image compression. Digital image compression is used to reduce the number of bits required to store an image in computer memory and/or transmit it over a communication link. Over the past decade advancements in technology have spawned many applications of digital imaging, such as photo videotex, desktop publishing, graphics arts, color facsimile, newspaper wire phototransmission and medical imaging. For many other contemporary applications, such as distributed multimedia systems, rapid transmission of images is necessary. Dollar cost as well as time cost of transmission and storage tend to be directly proportional to the volume of data. Therefore, application of digital image compression techniques becomes necessary to minimize costs. A number of digital image compression algorithms have been developed and standardized. With the success of these algorithms, research effort is now directed towards improving implementation techniques. The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) and Motion Photographic Experts Group(MPEG) are international organizations which have developed digital image compression standards. Hardware (VLSI chips) which implement the JPEG image compression algorithm are available. [+]Such hardware is specific to image compression only and cannot be used for other image processing applications. A flexible means of implementing digital image compression algorithms is still required. An obvious method of processing different imaging applications on general purpose hardware platforms is to develop software implementations. JPEG uses an 8 x 8 block of image samples as the basic element for compression. These blocks are processed sequentially. There is always the possibility of having similar blocks in a given image. If similar blocks in an image are located, then repeated compression of these blocks is not necessary. By locating similar blocks in the image, the speed of compression can be increased and the size of the compressed image can be reduced. Based on this concept an enhancement to the JPEG algorithm is proposed, called Bock Comparator Technique (BCT). Still Image Compression on Parallel Computer Architectures is designed for advanced students and practitioners of computer science. This comprehensive reference provides a foundation for understanding digital image compression techniques and parallel computer architectures.
Creator: Jean-Paul Emard
Publication date: 1988-09
Price: $37.50
Review CD-ROMs in Print, 1988-89 / Mecklermedia Corporation:
Authors
- M. Kent Loftin
- Jonathan T. Ricketts
- Frederick S. Merritt
Publication date: 1998-11-30
Dewey code: 004
List Price: $149.95
Price: $149.95
Review Standard Handbook for Civil Engineers on CD-ROM / McGraw-Hill Companies:The premier civil engineers reference tool: the Standard Handbook for Civil Engineers, Fourth Edition.
Publication date: 1990-01
Dewey code: 025.344025
Price: $49.50
Review Cd-Roms in Print, 1990: An International Guide (CD-Roms in Print) / Mecklermedia Corporation:
Creator: Juan M. Lopez Soler
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1995-11-27
Dewey code: 006.454
List Price: $202.00
Price: $178.95
Review Speech Recognition and Coding: New Advances and Trends (NATO ASI Series / Computer and Systems Sciences) / Springer:Based on a NATO Advanced Study Institute held in 1993, this book addresses recent advances in automatic speech recognition and speech coding. The book contains contributions by many of the most outstanding researchers from the best laboratories worldwide in the field. The contributions have been grouped into five parts: on acoustic modeling; language modeling; speech processing, analysis and synthesis; speech coding; and vector quantization and neural nets. For each of these topics, some of the best-known researchers were invited to give a lecture. In addition to these lectures, the topics were complemented with discussions and presentations of the work of those attending. Altogether, the reader is given a wide perspective on recent advances in the field and will be able to see the trends for future work.
Edition: CD Rom
Publication date: 1994-06
Price: $49.95
Review Cd-Roms in Print, 1994: An International Guide to Cd-Rom, Cd-I, Cdtv and Electronic Book Products/Spring (CD-ROMs in print) / Mecklermedia Corporation:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1999-07
Dewey code: 006.54
List Price: $165.00
Price: $165.00
Review Techniques in Speech Acoustics (Text, Speech and Language Technology) / Springer:Techniques in Speech Acoustics provides an introduction to the acoustic analysis and characteristics of speech sounds. The first part of the book covers aspects of the source-filter decomposition of speech, spectrographic analysis, the acoustic theory of speech production and acoustic phonetic cues. The second part is based on computational techniques for analysing the acoustic speech signal including digital time and frequency analyses, formant synthesis, and the linear predictive coding of speech. There is also an introductory chapter on the classification of acoustic speech signals which is relevant to aspects of automatic speech and talker recognition. Included with the book is a CD-ROM containing extensive speech corpora, the EMU speech analysis tools, extensions to the X-LISP-STAT programming language that are adapted to speech analysis, and numerous exercises that are linked to the major themes of the book and which can be run on Windows-95 and UNIX platforms. The book and CD-ROM are intended for use as teaching materials on undergraduate and postgraduate speech acoustics and experimental phonetics courses; they are also aimed at researchers from phonetics, linguistics, computer science, psychology and engineering who wish to gain an understanding of the basis of speech acoustics and its application to fields such as speech synthesis and automatic speech recognition.
Creator: R.I. Damper
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-10-24
Dewey code: 006.54
List Price: $191.00
Price: $152.80
Review Data Mining Techniques Speech Syn (Telecommunications Technology & Applications Series) / Springer:Data-Driven Techniques in Speech Synthesis gives a first review of this new field. All areas of speech synthesis from text are covered, including text analysis, letter-to-sound conversion, prosodic marking and extraction of parameters to drive synthesis hardware. Fuelled by cheap computer processing and memory, the fields of machine learning in particular and artificial intelligence in general are increasingly exploiting approaches in which large databases act as implicit knowledge sources, rather than explicit rules manually written by experts. Speech synthesis is one application area where the new approach is proving powerfully effective, the reliance upon fragile specialist knowledge having hindered its development in the past. This book provides the first review of the new topic, with contributions from leading international experts. Data-Driven Techniques in Speech Synthesis is at the leading edge of current research, written by well respected experts in the field. The text is concise and accessible, and guides the reader through the new technology. The book will primarily appeal to research engineers and scientists working in the area of speech synthesis. However, it will also be of interest to speech scientists and phoneticians as well as managers and project leaders in the telecommunications industry who need an appreciation of the capabilities and potential of modern speech synthesis technology.
Creator: Anna Hac
Publication date: 1996-05
Dewey code: 004
List Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00
Review Multimedia Applications Support for Wireless Atm Networks / Institute of Electrical & Electronics Enginee:(Note: This course requires the following textbook: Multimedia Applications Support for Wireless ATM Networks by Hac, available from Prentice Hall). Telecommunications and wireless networks have been the topic of research for several decades. With the employment of telephoneand radio a new era in communications has begun. A few generations of telecommunications networks have evolved into a worldwide network with countless applications of various media and interactive users. This course will teach you to design high-speed wireless networks supporting multimedia applications. Topics covered include: - ATM and Wireless Networks and their Architecture - Congestion control and protocols - Location and tracking strategies - Routing and resource management for multimedia applications - Synchronization - Multicasting - Quality of Service for multimedia applications.
Creator: Norman Desmarais
Publication date: 1991-03
Price: $49.50
Review Cd Roms in Print 1991: An International Guide (CD-Roms in Print) / Mecklermedia Corporation:
Authors
- Gösta H. Granlund
- Hans Knutsson
Publication date: 1994-12-31
Dewey code: 006.42
List Price: $213.50
Price: $170.80
Review Signal Processing for Computer Vision / Springer:Signal Processing for Computer Vision is a unique and thorough treatment of the signal processing aspects of filters and operators for low-level computer vision. Computer vision has progressed considerably over recent years. From methods only applicable to simple images, it has developed to deal with increasingly complex scenes, volumes and time sequences. A substantial part of this book deals with the problem of designing models that can be used for several purposes within computer vision. These partial models have some general properties of invariance generation and generality in model generation. Signal Processing for Computer Vision is the first book to give a unified treatment of representation and filtering of higher order data, such as vectors and tensors in multidimensional space. Included is a systematic organisation for the implementation of complex models in a hierarchical modular structure and novel material on adaptive filtering using tensor data representation. Signal Processing for Computer Vision is intended for final year undergraduate and graduate students as well as engineers and researchers in the field of computer vision and image processing.
Publication date: 1997-06
Dewey code: 782.42
Price: $39.95
Review Hi Ho Librario!: Songs, Chants, and Stories to Keep Kids Humming / Rock Hill Press:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1998-11-30
Dewey code: 621.388
List Price: $164.00
Price: $156.00
Review Rate-Quality Optimized Video Coding (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science) / Springer:Rate-Quality Optimized Video Coding discusses the matter of optimizing (or negotiating) the data rate of compressed digital video and its quality, which has been a relatively neglected topic in either side of image/video coding and tele-traffic management. Video rate management becomes a technically challenging task since it is required to maintain a certain video quality regardless of the availability of transmission or storage media. This is caused by the broadband nature of digital video and inherent algorithmic features of mainstream video compression schemes, e. g. H. 261, H. 263 and MPEG series. In order to maximize the media utilization and to enhance video quality, the data rate of compressed video should be regulated within a budget of available media resources while maintaining the video quality as high as possible. In Part I (Chapters 1 to 4) the non-stationarity of digital video is discussed. Since the non-stationary nature is also inherited from algorithmic properties of international video coding standards, which are a combination of statistical coding techniques, the video rate management techniques of these standards are explored. [+]Although there is a series of known video rate control techniques, such as picture rate variation, frame dropping, etc. , these techniques do not view the matter as an optimization between rate and quality. From the view of rate-quality optimization, the quantizer is the sole means of controling rate and quality. Thus, quantizers and quantizer control techniques are analyzed, based on the relationship of rate and quality. In Part II (Chapters 5 and 6), as a coherent approach to non-stationary video, established but still thriving nonlinear techniques are applied to video rate-quality optimization such as artificial neural networks including radical basis function networks, and fuzzy logic-based schemes. Conventional linear techniques are also described before the nonlinear techniques are explored. By using these nonlinear techniques, it is shown how they influence and tackle the rate-quality optimization problem. Finally, in Chapter 7 rate-quality optimization issues are reviewed in emerging video communication applications such as video transcoding and mobile video. This chapter discusses some new issues and prospects of rate and quality control in those technology areas. Rate-Quality Optimized Video Coding is an excellent reference and can be used for advanced courses on the topic.
Creator: Ann Niles
Publication date: 1994-12
Price: $75.00
Review CD-ROM Book Index: An International Guide to Fulltext Books on CD-ROM (Supplement to Computers in Libraries) / Information Today:
Publication date: 1991-12
Price: $30.00
Review CD-ROM Market Place, 1991: An International Directory / Mecklermedia Corporation:
Edition: 16th
Publication date: 2002-06
Dewey code: 640
List Price: $185.00
Price: $185.00
Review Cd-Roms in Print (Cds in Print, 16th ed) / Gale Group:
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