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Viewing Distance

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ISBN 13 : 9781954119031
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Viewing Distance written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viewing Distance utilizes declassified material from US government archives to examine photography's role as a tool of the national security state for reconnaissance, surveillance, and documentation of advanced technologies. While many of the source images date back to the middle 20th century, they have only recently been declassified and much information remains secret. These images represent the decades-long time delay from when knowledge comes into being and when it becomes publicly accessible. The early Cold War period that much of the material originates from is a significant turning point in photography's use for intelligence gathering. Desire for clandestine reconnaissance photography resulted in high-altitude, high-speed aircraft such as the U-2 and SR-71, the latter essentially a camera that could fly faster than the speed of sound. Photographs pertaining to these innovations are combined with contemporary documents and devices, connecting past and present. Processes including analog printing, digital collage, scanner manipulation, and audio software are used to animate the archival material. Through this disruption and layering, historical fragments are presented in a state of flux, open to alternate associations and implications. What we are allowed to know and see is often incomplete and indeterminate, encouraging speculation and critical vision. Photography has proven to be an extraordinary instrument in the struggle to image, interpret, and define competing histories. Digital reproduction has complicated this further through the amplified dissemination and malleability of photographic images. There is now an opportunity to not only work with an unprecedented amount of photographic images as raw material, but also to seek out images that have eluded wide circulation and insert them into the stream of information that informs our conceptions of history and the world in general. We have seen in recent years that the recontextualization and dispersion of images online, particularly on social media, can lead to harmful, widespread disinformation. However, there is a redemptive, liberating potential that exists in the subjective and collective recontextualization of photographic images to form multiple unique reinterpretations of historical narratives that have been determined by powerful institutions with their own agendas.

Encyclopedia of Distances

Author : Michel Marie Deza
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642309585
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Distances written by Michel Marie Deza and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-28 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated and revised second edition of the leading reference volume on distance metrics includes a wealth of new material that reflects advances in a developing field now regarded as an essential tool in many areas of pure and applied mathematics. Its publication coincides with intensifying research efforts into metric spaces and especially distance design for applications. Accurate metrics have become a crucial goal in computational biology, image analysis, speech recognition and information retrieval. The content focuses on providing academics with an invaluable comprehensive listing of the main available distances. As well as standalone introductions and definitions, the encyclopedia facilitates swift cross-referencing with easily navigable bold-faced textual links to core entries, and includes a wealth of fascinating curiosities that enable non-specialists to deploy research tools previously viewed as arcane. Its value-added context is certain to open novel avenues of research.

Basic Photographic Materials and Processes

Author : Nanette L. Salvaggio
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136102221
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Basic Photographic Materials and Processes written by Nanette L. Salvaggio and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to develop your artistic skills to the best of your ability, you first must understand the science and the fundamentals of photography. Whether you are a student of photography or a seasoned professional, this thoroughly updated edition of the classic text Basic Photographic Materials and Processes will provide all of the scientific information that you need. Full color throughout for the first time, this third edition covers new topics including digital resolution, digital sensor technology, scanner technology, color management, and tone reproduction.

Digital Video Image Quality and Perceptual Coding

Author : H.R. Wu
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 135183682X
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Digital Video Image Quality and Perceptual Coding written by H.R. Wu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hand is quicker than the eye. In many cases, so is digital video. Maintaining image quality in bandwidth- and memory-restricted environments is quickly becoming a reality as thriving research delves ever deeper into perceptual coding techniques, which discard superfluous data that humans cannot process or detect. Surveying the topic from a Human Visual System (HVS)-based approach, Digital Video Image Quality and Perceptual Coding outlines the principles, metrics, and standards associated with perceptual coding, as well as the latest techniques and applications. This book is divided broadly into three parts. First, it introduces the fundamental theory, concepts, principles, and techniques underlying the field, such as the basics of compression, HVS modeling, and coding artifacts associated with current well-known techniques. The next section focuses on picture quality assessment criteria; subjective and objective methods and metrics, including vision model based digital video impairment metrics; testing procedures; and international standards regarding image quality. Finally, practical applications come into focus, including digital image and video coder designs based on the HVS as well as post-filtering, restoration, error correction, and concealment techniques. The permeation of digital images and video throughout the world cannot be understated. Nor can the importance of preserving quality while using minimal storage space, and Digital Video Image Quality and Perceptual Coding provides the tools necessary to accomplish this goal. Instructors and lecturers wishing to make use of this work as a textbook can download a presentation of 786 slides in PDF format organized to augment the text. accompany our book (H.R. Wu and K.R. Rao, Digital Video Image Quality and Perceptual Coding, CRC Press (ISBN: 0-8247-2777-0), Nov. 2005) for lecturers or instructor to use for their classes if they use the book.

Perceiving in Depth, Volume 1: Basic Mechanisms

Author : Ian P. Howard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199877343
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Perceiving in Depth, Volume 1: Basic Mechanisms written by Ian P. Howard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three-volume work Perceiving in Depth is a sequel to Binocular Vision and Stereopsis and to Seeing in Depth, both by Ian P. Howard and Brian J. Rogers. This work is much broader in scope than the previous books and includes mechanisms of depth perception by all senses, including aural, electrosensory organs, and the somatosensory system. Volume 1 reviews sensory coding, psychophysical and analytic procedures, and basic visual mechanisms. Volume 2 reviews stereoscopic vision. Volume 3 reviews all mechanisms of depth perception other than stereoscopic vision. The three volumes are extensively illustrated and referenced and provide the most detailed review of all aspects of perceiving the three-dimensional world. Volume 1 starts with a review of the history of visual science from the ancient Greeks to the early 20th century with special attention devoted to the discovery of the principles of perspective and stereoscopic vision. The first chapter also contains an account of early visual display systems, such as panoramas and peepshows, and the development of stereoscopes and stereophotography. A chapter on the psychophysical and analytic procedures used in investigations of depth perception is followed by a chapter on sensory coding and the geometry of visual space. An account of the structure and physiology of the primate visual system proceeds from the eye through the LGN to the visual cortex and higher visual centers. This is followed by a review of the evolution of visual systems and of the development of the mammalian visual system in the embryonic and post-natal periods, with an emphasis on experience-dependent neural plasticity. An account of the development of perceptual functions, especially depth perception, is followed by a review of the effects of early visual deprivation during the critical period of neural plasticity on amblyopia and other defects in depth perception. Volume 1 ends with accounts of the accommodation mechanism of the human eye and vergence eye movements.

Optimal Audio and Video Reproduction at Home

Author : Vincent Verdult
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042981318X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Optimal Audio and Video Reproduction at Home written by Vincent Verdult and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimal Audio and Video Reproduction at Home is a comprehensive guide that will help every reader set up a modern audio-video system in a small room such as a home theater or studio control room. Verdult covers everything the reader needs to know to optimize the reproduction of multichannel audio and high-resolution video. The book provides concrete advice on equipment setup, display calibration, loudspeaker positioning, room acoustics, and much more. Detailed, easy-to-grasp explanations of the underlying principles ensure the reader will make the right choices, find alternatives, and separate the rigid from the more flexible requirements to achieve the best possible results.

Mobile TV: Customizing Content and Experience

Author : Aaron Marcus
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1848827016
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Mobile TV: Customizing Content and Experience written by Aaron Marcus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing usable, useful, and appealing solutions for the customer or user experience requires customization according to specific users' needs amidst frequently changing physical and social environments. Complex design problems like these require interdisciplinary perspectives that cover software functionality, human interaction and communication experiences, and perceived value. After defining and summarizing current research and development, this book focuses on Mobile TV experience in everyday life, innovative conceptual and participatory design methods, contextual analysis methods, social context for interactive multimedia systems, advanced interaction with mobile digital content, and future trends for the wide range of products and services that will be offered in the decade to come. The Editors have carefully balanced the theoretical and empirical approaches providing a valuable insight into principles and methods, as well as actionable guidelines and recommendations for all those interested in exploring how to achieve the core objectives of usability, usefulness, and social appeal of this new mobile-video technology. The book answers many questions, and raises some new ones that only future technology development and deployment in mobile human-computer interaction and communication can answer.

Handbook of Optoelectronics

Author : John P. Dakin
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482256975
Total Pages : 1162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Optoelectronics written by John P. Dakin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Optoelectronics offers a self-contained reference from the basic science and light sources to devices and modern applications across the entire spectrum of disciplines utilizing optoelectronic technologies. This second edition gives a complete update of the original work with a focus on systems and applications. Volume I covers the details of optoelectronic devices and techniques including semiconductor lasers, optical detectors and receivers, optical fiber devices, modulators, amplifiers, integrated optics, LEDs, and engineered optical materials with brand new chapters on silicon photonics, nanophotonics, and graphene optoelectronics. Volume II addresses the underlying system technologies enabling state-of-the-art communications, imaging, displays, sensing, data processing, energy conversion, and actuation. Volume III is brand new to this edition, focusing on applications in infrastructure, transport, security, surveillance, environmental monitoring, military, industrial, oil and gas, energy generation and distribution, medicine, and free space. No other resource in the field comes close to its breadth and depth, with contributions from leading industrial and academic institutions around the world. Whether used as a reference, research tool, or broad-based introduction to the field, the Handbook offers everything you need to get started. (The previous edition of this title was published as Handbook of Optoelectronics, 9780750306461.) John P. Dakin, PhD, is professor (emeritus) at the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK. Robert G. W. Brown, PhD, is chief executive officer of the American Institute of Physics and an adjunct full professor in the Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic at the University of California, Irvine.

Digital Video and HD

Author : Charles Poynton
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 13 : 1558607927
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Digital Video and HD written by Charles Poynton and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2003 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: & Quot;Digital Video and HDTV Algorithms and Interfaces covers the theory and engineering of digital video systems in a manner that is equally accessible to video engineers and computer graphics practitioners. It provides succinct and accurate treatment of standard-definition television (SDTV), high-definition television (HDTV), and compression systems. & quot;--BOOK JACKET.

Thermal Imaging Systems

Author : J.M. Lloyd
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489911820
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Thermal Imaging Systems written by J.M. Lloyd and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to serve as an introduction to the technology of thermal imaging, and as a compendium of the conventions which form the basis of current FUR practice. Those topics in thermal imaging which are covered adequately elsewhere are not treated here, so there is no discussion of detectors, cryogenic coolers, circuit design, or video displays. Useful infor mation which is not readily available because of obscure publication is referenced as originating from personal communications. Virtually everyone with whom I have worked in the thermal imaging business has contributed to the book through the effects of conversations and ideas. I gratefully proffer blanket appreciation to all those who have helped in that way to make this book possible. The contributions of five people, however, bear special mention: Bob Sendall, Luke Biberman, Pete Laakmann, George Hopper, and Norm Stetson. They, more than any others, have positively influenced my thinking.

Safety and Human Error in Engineering Systems

Author : B.S. Dhillon
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 146650692X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (665 download)

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Download or read book Safety and Human Error in Engineering Systems written by B.S. Dhillon and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an approach that combines coverage of safety and human error into a single volume, Safety and Human Error in Engineering Systems eliminates the need to consult many different and diverse sources for those who need information about both topics. The book begins with an introduction to aspects of safety and human error and a discussion of mathematical concepts that builds understanding of the material presented in subsequent chapters. The author describes the methods that can be used to perform safety and human error analysis in engineering systems and includes examples, along with their solutions, as well as problems to test reader comprehension. He presents a total of ten methods considered useful for performing safety and human error analysis in engineering systems. The book also covers safety and human error transportation systems, medical systems, and mining equipment as well as robots and software. Nowadays, engineering systems are an important element of the world economy as each year billions of dollars are spent to develop, manufacture, and operate various types of engineering systems around the globe. A rise in accidental deaths has put the spotlight on the role human error plays in the safety and failure of these systems. Written by an expert in various aspects of healthcare, engineering management, design, reliability, safety, and quality, this book provides tools and techniques for improving engineering systems with respect to human error and safety.

Special Publication

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Special Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Topographic Manual

Author : U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Topographic Manual written by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Special Publications

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Special Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Handbook of Simulator-Based Training

Author : Eric Farmer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351931768
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Simulator-Based Training written by Eric Farmer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in simulation technology have enabled an interesting amount of training and instruction to be conducted on training simulators instead of on real systems. However, experiences with the procurement and use of training simulators has not always been as successful, often owing to a lack of knowledge of didactics and of training programme development, and also to inadequate simulator specifications. The Handbook of Simulator-based Training represents the first comprehensive overview of the European state of the art in simulator-based training. It also comprises a well-founded and systematic approach to simulator-based training and the specification of simulator requirements. The multi-disciplinary research project described in this book combines the expertise of specialists in human factors, information systems, system design and engineering from 23 research and industrial organizations from five countries - France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK. The authors have synthesized and documented the project results to ensure that this handbook provides not only many valuable guidelines, but more importantly a common frame of reference. It will be a key resource for the many specialists who are concerned with simulator-based training: researchers, engineers, and users; military training institutes and training system development departments; military staff responsible for the procurement of training devices and simulators; the simulator industry; the training research community; and the human factors and ergonomics community.

Handbook of Human Vibration

Author : M. J. Griffin
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780123030412
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Human Vibration written by M. J. Griffin and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1996-11-19 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summarizing the current understanding of the many human responses to vibration, including both whole-body and hand-transmitted vibration, this text presents experimental data and appropriate models so that the reader can address practical problems.

Renaissance Art & Science @ Florence

Author : Susan B. Puett
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271091320
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Art & Science @ Florence written by Susan B. Puett and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creativity of the human mind was brilliantly displayed during the Florentine Renaissance when artists, mathematicians, astronomers, apothecaries, architects, and others embraced the interconnectedness of their disciplines. Artists used mathematical perspective in painting and scientific techniques to create new materials; hospitals used art to invigorate the soul; apothecaries prepared and dispensed, often from the same plants, both medicinals for patients and pigments for painters; utilitarian glassware and maps became objects to be admired for their beauty; art enhanced depictions of scientific observations; and innovations in construction made buildings canvases for artistic grandeur. An exploration of these and other intersections of art and science deepens our appreciation of the magnificent contributions of the extraordinary Florentines.