The Technical (T)Error is a book that transports you to the new age of technology we live in. It delves into an era where everything is effortlessly available and easily accessible. The book highlights the comfort that progressive programming and day-to-day tech upgrades have brought into our lives. But, on the flip side, it also emphasizes how our excessive reliance on technology has rendered our minds less productive, our hearts devoid of emotions, and the human connections fading with each passing day. Has this tech-savvy world taken a lot from us as humans? Or is it really the way, as technology suggests, for the betterment of society? Technology has always come with a question mark for me – has it been a curse or a boon to society? The interesting aspect is that, without actively seeking answers, we humans have consistently embraced technological advancements with open arms, often without pondering the potential repercussions. The book makes us think – whether technology has been correctly used as a tool as it is meant to be, or whether we are posing threats to ourselves through over-dependency, ultimately leading to nothing but termination. The addiction to technology, often under the guise of making life simple, reaches a point of no return, and, unfortunately, there is no rehab for it. And that’s not all; the additional threats associated with this rapidly evolving technology compel us to reflect on the wisdom of our esteemed predecessors who said, ‘Nothing comes easy, and there are no shortcuts to success.’ Isn’t this contrary to today’s lifestyle, largely due to these tech gizmos? To think is our right, and we should know what and how much is right.
Mausam Zindagi Ke… is an anthology of human emotions, resembling the diverse seasons of nature. Life is about vibes, emotions and feelings. Sometimes, you love thyself so much that you feel you don't need any other person. Sometimes, you feel the same love for someone else and love seems to be in the air. Sometimes, you feel you are left out and there is nobody who loves you. These feelings are in likeness to the various seasons of nature. Summer—a season that makes you feel energized and everything around smiles because of the light all around. Winter—a season that makes you indolent, sometimes laid-back and sometimes gloomy. Autumn—a season when you look around and everything seems to be gone away. It makes you feel as if there is no tomorrow. Spring—the time when everything turns green, beautiful and makes you feel lively. There is so much to learn and get inspired from in our surroundings. Just one simple thing to understand is that if there is tunnel of darkness, there will be light at the end of it. Likewise, if there are moments that make you feel perished in life, there will come a time which will make you feel revived and you will surely rise in it. Mausam Zindagi Ke… connects human behavior with nature, both being beautifully infused in each other.
This book presents an approach to postmortem human identification using dental image processing based on dental features and characteristics, and provides information on various identification systems based on dental features using image processing operations. The book also provides information on a novel human identification approach that uses Infinite Symmetric Exponential Filter (ISEF) based edge detection and contouring algorithms. Provides complete details on dental imaging; Discusses the important features of a human identification approach and presents a brief review on DICOM standard for dental imaging; Presents human identification approach based on dental features.
This book shows how machine learning can detect moving objects in a digital video stream. The authors present different background subtraction approaches, foreground segmentation, and object tracking approaches to accomplish this. They also propose an algorithm that considers a multimodal background subtraction approach that can handle a dynamic background and different constraints. The authors show how the proposed algorithm is able to detect and track 2D & 3D objects in monocular sequences for both indoor and outdoor surveillance environments and at the same time, also able to work satisfactorily in a dynamic background and with challenging constraints. In addition, the shows how the proposed algorithm makes use of parameter optimization and adaptive threshold techniques as intrinsic improvements of the Gaussian Mixture Model. The presented system in the book is also able to handle partial occlusion during object detection and tracking. All the presented work and evaluations were carried out in offline processing with the computation done by a single laptop computer with MATLAB serving as software environment.
This book introduces advanced and hybrid compression techniques specifically used for medical images. The book discusses conventional compression and compressive sensing (CS) theory based approaches that are designed and implemented using various image transforms, such as: Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and greedy based recovery algorithm. The authors show how these techniques provide simulation results of various compression techniques for different types of medical images, such as MRI, CT, US, and x-ray images. Future research directions are provided for medical imaging science. The book will be a welcomed reference for engineers, clinicians, and research students working with medical image compression in the biomedical imaging field. Covers various algorithms for data compression and medical image compression; Provides simulation results of compression algorithms for different types of medical images; Provides study of compressive sensing theory for compression of medical images.
Aurora is the Ethereal collection of poems, Quotes, and stories from our Grooming Writers who are letting their words enter into the world of delightful and agreeable imaginations. This book contains the worship, hardwork, Love and Emotions as in form of the Writer's amazing work itself to Build this small world more creative or splendour. The book is compiled by Rohit Mahawar and Kailash Lohar
This book provides basic theories and implementations using SCILAB open-source software for digital images. The book simplifies image processing theories and well as implementation of image processing algorithms, making it accessible to those with basic knowledge of image processing. This book includes many SCILAB programs at the end of each theory, which help in understanding concepts. The book includes more than sixty SCILAB programs of the image processing theory. In the appendix, readers will find a deeper glimpse into the research areas in the image processing.
Mausam Zindagi Ke… is an anthology of human emotions, resembling the diverse seasons of nature. Life is about vibes, emotions and feelings. Sometimes, you love thyself so much that you feel you don't need any other person. Sometimes, you feel the same love for someone else and love seems to be in the air. Sometimes, you feel you are left out and there is nobody who loves you. These feelings are in likeness to the various seasons of nature. Summer—a season that makes you feel energized and everything around smiles because of the light all around. Winter—a season that makes you indolent, sometimes laid-back and sometimes gloomy. Autumn—a season when you look around and everything seems to be gone away. It makes you feel as if there is no tomorrow. Spring—the time when everything turns green, beautiful and makes you feel lively. There is so much to learn and get inspired from in our surroundings. Just one simple thing to understand is that if there is tunnel of darkness, there will be light at the end of it. Likewise, if there are moments that make you feel perished in life, there will come a time which will make you feel revived and you will surely rise in it. Mausam Zindagi Ke… connects human behavior with nature, both being beautifully infused in each other.
The book provides copyright protection approaches for videos using watermarking. The various watermarking techniques using various transforms such as discrete cosine transform (DCT), discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and singular value decomposition (SVD) for videos are presented. The book also provides video watermarking approach using compressive sensing (CS) theory. The presented watermarking techniques are designed and implemented using color digital videos. The performance of the presented techniques is evaluated using Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Normalized Correlation (NC).
This book presents an approach to postmortem human identification using dental image processing based on dental features and characteristics, and provides information on various identification systems based on dental features using image processing operations. The book also provides information on a novel human identification approach that uses Infinite Symmetric Exponential Filter (ISEF) based edge detection and contouring algorithms. Provides complete details on dental imaging; Discusses the important features of a human identification approach and presents a brief review on DICOM standard for dental imaging; Presents human identification approach based on dental features.
This book shows how machine learning can detect moving objects in a digital video stream. The authors present different background subtraction approaches, foreground segmentation, and object tracking approaches to accomplish this. They also propose an algorithm that considers a multimodal background subtraction approach that can handle a dynamic background and different constraints. The authors show how the proposed algorithm is able to detect and track 2D & 3D objects in monocular sequences for both indoor and outdoor surveillance environments and at the same time, also able to work satisfactorily in a dynamic background and with challenging constraints. In addition, the shows how the proposed algorithm makes use of parameter optimization and adaptive threshold techniques as intrinsic improvements of the Gaussian Mixture Model. The presented system in the book is also able to handle partial occlusion during object detection and tracking. All the presented work and evaluations were carried out in offline processing with the computation done by a single laptop computer with MATLAB serving as software environment.
This book presents multibiometric watermarking techniques for security of biometric data. This book also covers transform domain multibiometric watermarking techniques and their advantages and limitations. The authors have developed novel watermarking techniques with a combination of Compressive Sensing (CS) theory for the security of biometric data at the system database of the biometric system. The authors show how these techniques offer higher robustness, authenticity, better imperceptibility, increased payload capacity, and secure biometric watermarks. They show how to use the CS theory for the security of biometric watermarks before embedding into the host biometric data. The suggested methods may find potential applications in the security of biometric data at various banking applications, access control of laboratories, nuclear power stations, military base, and airports.
The Book presents an overview of newly developed watermarking techniques in various independent and hybrid domains Covers the basics of digital watermarking, its types, domain in which it is implemented and the application of machine learning algorithms onto digital watermarking Reviews hardware implementation of watermarking Discusses optimization problems and solutions in watermarking with a special focus on bio-inspired algorithms Includes a case study along with its MATLAB code and simulation results
This book introduces advanced and hybrid compression techniques specifically used for medical images. The book discusses conventional compression and compressive sensing (CS) theory based approaches that are designed and implemented using various image transforms, such as: Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and greedy based recovery algorithm. The authors show how these techniques provide simulation results of various compression techniques for different types of medical images, such as MRI, CT, US, and x-ray images. Future research directions are provided for medical imaging science. The book will be a welcomed reference for engineers, clinicians, and research students working with medical image compression in the biomedical imaging field. Covers various algorithms for data compression and medical image compression; Provides simulation results of compression algorithms for different types of medical images; Provides study of compressive sensing theory for compression of medical images.
This book provides basic theories and implementations using SCILAB open-source software for digital images. The book simplifies image processing theories and well as implementation of image processing algorithms, making it accessible to those with basic knowledge of image processing. This book includes many SCILAB programs at the end of each theory, which help in understanding concepts. The book includes more than sixty SCILAB programs of the image processing theory. In the appendix, readers will find a deeper glimpse into the research areas in the image processing.
The book provides copyright protection approaches for videos using watermarking. The various watermarking techniques using various transforms such as discrete cosine transform (DCT), discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and singular value decomposition (SVD) for videos are presented. The book also provides video watermarking approach using compressive sensing (CS) theory. The presented watermarking techniques are designed and implemented using color digital videos. The performance of the presented techniques is evaluated using Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Normalized Correlation (NC).
The Technical (T)Error is a book that transports you to the new age of technology we live in. It delves into an era where everything is effortlessly available and easily accessible. The book highlights the comfort that progressive programming and day-to-day tech upgrades have brought into our lives. But, on the flip side, it also emphasizes how our excessive reliance on technology has rendered our minds less productive, our hearts devoid of emotions, and the human connections fading with each passing day. Has this tech-savvy world taken a lot from us as humans? Or is it really the way, as technology suggests, for the betterment of society? Technology has always come with a question mark for me – has it been a curse or a boon to society? The interesting aspect is that, without actively seeking answers, we humans have consistently embraced technological advancements with open arms, often without pondering the potential repercussions. The book makes us think – whether technology has been correctly used as a tool as it is meant to be, or whether we are posing threats to ourselves through over-dependency, ultimately leading to nothing but termination. The addiction to technology, often under the guise of making life simple, reaches a point of no return, and, unfortunately, there is no rehab for it. And that’s not all; the additional threats associated with this rapidly evolving technology compel us to reflect on the wisdom of our esteemed predecessors who said, ‘Nothing comes easy, and there are no shortcuts to success.’ Isn’t this contrary to today’s lifestyle, largely due to these tech gizmos? To think is our right, and we should know what and how much is right.
Aurora is the Ethereal collection of poems, Quotes, and stories from our Grooming Writers who are letting their words enter into the world of delightful and agreeable imaginations. This book contains the worship, hardwork, Love and Emotions as in form of the Writer's amazing work itself to Build this small world more creative or splendour. The book is compiled by Rohit Mahawar and Kailash Lohar
Thanks to recent advances in sensors, communication and satellite technology, data storage, processing and networking capabilities, satellite image acquisition and mining are now on the rise. In turn, satellite images play a vital role in providing essential geographical information. Highly accurate automatic classification and decision support systems can facilitate the efforts of data analysts, reduce human error, and allow the rapid and rigorous analysis of land use and land cover information. Integrating Machine Learning (ML) technology with the human visual psychometric can help meet geologists’ demands for more efficient and higher-quality classification in real time. This book introduces readers to key concepts, methods and models for satellite image analysis; highlights state-of-the-art classification and clustering techniques; discusses recent developments and remaining challenges; and addresses various applications, making it a valuable asset for engineers, data analysts and researchers in the fields of geographic information systems and remote sensing engineering.
It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950, a document in English created by elite consensus, has had little influence on India’s greater population. Drawing upon the previously unexplored records of the Supreme Court of India, A People’s Constitution upends this narrative and shows how the Constitution actually transformed the daily lives of citizens in profound and lasting ways. This remarkable legal process was led by individuals on the margins of society, and Rohit De looks at how drinkers, smugglers, petty vendors, butchers, and prostitutes—all despised minorities—shaped the constitutional culture. The Constitution came alive in the popular imagination so much that ordinary people attributed meaning to its existence, took recourse to it, and argued with it. Focusing on the use of constitutional remedies by citizens against new state regulations seeking to reshape the society and economy, De illustrates how laws and policies were frequently undone or renegotiated from below using the state’s own procedures. De examines four important cases that set legal precedents: a Parsi journalist’s contestation of new alcohol prohibition laws, Marwari petty traders’ challenge to the system of commodity control, Muslim butchers’ petition against cow protection laws, and sex workers’ battle to protect their right to practice prostitution. Exploring how the Indian Constitution of 1950 enfranchised the largest population in the world, A People’s Constitution considers the ways that ordinary citizens produced, through litigation, alternative ethical models of citizenship.
This book provides information on digital audio watermarking, its applications, and its evaluation for copyright protection of audio signals – both basic and advanced. The author covers various advanced digital audio watermarking algorithms that can be used for copyright protection of audio signals. These algorithms are implemented using hybridization of advanced signal processing transforms such as fast discrete curvelet transform (FDCuT), redundant discrete wavelet transform (RDWT), and another signal processing transform such as discrete cosine transform (DCT). In these algorithms, Arnold scrambling is used to enhance the security of the watermark logo. This book is divided in to three portions: basic audio watermarking and its classification, audio watermarking algorithms, and audio watermarking algorithms using advance signal transforms. The book also covers optimization based audio watermarking. Describes basic of digital audio watermarking and its applications, including evaluation parameters for digital audio watermarking algorithms; Provides audio watermarking algorithms using advanced signal transformations; Provides optimization based audio watermarking algorithms.
Learn about the emergence and evolution of IT in the enterprise, see how machine learning is transforming business intelligence, and discover various cognitive artificial intelligence solutions that complement and extend machine learning. In this book, author Rohit Kumar explores the challenges when these concepts intersect in IT systems by presenting detailed descriptions and business scenarios. He starts with the basics of how artificial intelligence started and how cognitive computing developed out of it. He'll explain every aspect of machine learning in detail, the reasons for changing business models to adopt it, and why your business needs it. Along the way you'll become comfortable with the intricacies of natural language processing, predictive analytics, and cognitive computing. Each technique is covered in detail so you can confidently integrate it into your enterprise as it is needed. This practical guide gives you a roadmap for transformin g your business with cognitive computing, giving you the ability to work confidently in an ever-changing enterprise environment. What You'll Learn See the history of AI and how machine learning and cognitive computing evolved Discover why cognitive computing is so important and why your business needs it Master the details of modern AI as it applies to enterprises Map the path ahead in terms of your IT-business integration Avoid common road blocks in the process of adopting cognitive computing in your business Who This Book Is For Business managers and leadership teams.
This book introduces methods for copyright protection and compression for speech signals. The first method introduces copyright protection of speech signal using watermarking; the second introduces compression of the speech signal using Compressive Sensing (CS). Both methods are tested and analyzed. The speech watermarking method uses technology such as Finite Ridgelet Transform (FRT), Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). The performance of the method is evaluated and compared with existing watermarking methods. In the speech compression method, the standard Compressive Sensing (CS) process is used for compression of the speech signal. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated using various transform bases like Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), and Fast Discrete Curvelet Transform (FDCuT).
This book introduces medical imaging, its security requirements, and various security mechanisms using data hiding approaches. The book in particular provides medical data hiding techniques using various advanced image transforms and encryption methods. The book focuses on two types of data hiding techniques: steganography and watermarking for medical images. The authors show how these techniques are used for security and integrity verification of medical images and designed for various types of medical images such as grayscale image and color image. The implementation of techniques are done using discrete cosine transform (DCT), discrete wavelet transform (DWT), singular value decomposition (SVD), redundant DWT (RDWT), fast discrete curvelet transform (FDCuT), finite ridgelet transform (FRT) and non-subsampled contourlet transform (NSCT). The results of these techniques are also demonstrated after description of each technique. Finally, some future research directions are provided for security of medical images in telemedicine application.
The book introduces the oscillatory reaction and pattern formation in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction that became model for investigating a wide range of intriguing pattern formations in chemical systems. So many modifications in classic version of BZ reaction have been carried out in various experimental conditions that demonstrate rich varieties of temporal oscillations and spatio-temporal patterns in non- equilibrium conditions. Mixed-mode versions of BZ reactions, which comprise a pair of organic substrates or dual metal catalysts, have displayed very complex oscillating behaviours and novel space-time patterns during reaction processes. These characteristic spatio-temporal properties of BZ reactions have attracted increasing attention of the scientific community in recent years because of its comparable periodic structures in electrochemical systems, polymerization processes, and non-equilibrium crystallization phenomena. Instead, non-equilibrium crystallization phenomena which lead to development of novel crystal morphologies in constraint of thermodynamic equilibrium conditions have been investigated and are said to be stationary periodic structures. Efforts have continued to analyze insight mechanisms and roles of reaction-diffusion mechanism and self-organization in the growth of such periodic crystal patterns. In this book, non-equilibrium crystallization phenomena, leading to growth of some novel crystal patterns in dual organic substrate modes of oscillatory BZ reactions have been discussed. Efforts have been made to find out experimental parameters where transitions of the spherulitic crystal patterns take place. The book provides the scientific community and entrepreneurs with a thorough understanding and knowledge of the growth and form of branched crystal pattern in reaction-diffusion system and their morphological transition.
Simplified and Illustrated Breast Pathology is a concise and highly illustrated guide to breast pathology and pathological terminology, authored by Professor Rohit Bhargava from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The book is divided into nine chapters, explaining uncommon pathology reports with the help of over 300 full colour, annotated clinical images. Topics include understanding specimen processing and examination after biopsy or tissue excision, definitions of diagnostic terms, reporting on large specimens (lumpectomies and mastectomies), breast tumour morphologic types, use of stains, prognostic marker testing and molecular testing in breast cancer, and neoadjuvant therapy. The final chapter addresses frequently asked questions in breast pathology, making Simplified and Illustrated Breast Pathology an ideal guide for breast care providers seeking practical, day-to-day advice. Key Points Concise and highly illustrated guide to breast pathology Authored by US based expert in pathology 303 full colour clinical images
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