Chipless RFID: Design Procedure and Detection Techniques

Ancient Epistemology (Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy)

Cambridge University Press, 2009

This is the first title in the Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy series, which provides concise books, written by major scholars and accessible to non-specialists, on important themes in ancient philosophy which remain of philosophical interest today. In this book, Professor Gerson explores ancient accounts of the nature of knowledge and belief from...

ImageCLEF: Experimental Evaluation in Visual Information Retrieval

Springer, 2010

The creation and consumption of content, especially visual content, is ingrained into our modern world. This book contains a collection of texts centered on the evaluation of image retrieval systems. To enable reproducible evaluation we must create standardized benchmarks and evaluation methodologies. The individual chapters in this book...

Hardware Acceleration of EDA Algorithms: Custom ICs, FPGAs and GPUs

Springer, 2010

This book deals with the acceleration of EDA algorithms using hardware platforms such as FPGAs and GPUs. Widely applied CAD algorithms are evaluated and compared for potential acceleration on FPGAs and GPUs. Coverage includes discussion of conditions under which it is preferable to use one platform over another, e.g., when an EDA problem has...

PC Toys: 14 Cool Projects for Home, Office, and Entertainment

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Come on out and play

You can only surf the Net so long. You can only play so much video poker. So if you’re a PC addict who’s ready for some new fun, this book is your toybox. Each of the 14 projects inside includes a parts list, suggestions for finding the needed equipment, clues to the cost, helpful Web links, and complete...

Collada: Sailing the Gulf of 3d Digital Content Creation

AK Peter, 2006

In 1963, Ivan Sutherland wrote Sketchpad [57], the world’s fi rst real-time computer graphics application. In that breakthrough effort, he defi ned the basic techniques for structuring scene data that are still present in today’s 3D applications.

In one way, though, Sutherland had it easy. He didn’t have to...

Color Appearance Models (The Wiley-IS &T Series in Imaging Science and Technology)

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

The law of proportion according to which the several colors are formed, even if a man knew he would be foolish in telling, for he could not give any necessary reason, nor indeed any tolerable or probable explanation of them.
Plato

Despite Plato’s warning, this book is about one of the major unresolved issues in the field of...