Computer Graphics & Visualization

This book is the proceedings of the 40th annual Graphics Interface conference—the oldest continuously scheduled conference in the field. The book includes high-quality papers on recent advances in interactive systems, human computer interaction, and graphics from around the world. It covers the foll..

The Handbook of Digital Image Synthesis constitutes a comprehensive reference guide in the rapidly-developing field of computer graphics, whose applications span not only the movie and gaming industries, but also digital marketing, industrial and architectural design, virtual-environment simulators,..

Collecting some of the most seminal work in the field, this book focuses on the subset of scientific visualization concerned with algorithm design, implementation, and optimization for use on today’s largest computational platforms. After introducing the fundamental concepts of parallel visualizatio..

Image Acquisition and Processing With LabVIEWä combines the general theory of image acquisition and processing, the underpinnings of LabVIEW and the National Instruments (NI) Vision toolkit, examples of their applications, and real-world case studies in a clear, systematic, and richly illustrated pr..

Thisbook presents the fundamentals, properties, and applications of a variety of image transforms used in image and video compression. It introduces popular image and video compression algorithms, including JPEG2000 and MPEG-2. He also focuses on editing, indexing, steganography, and watermarking. M..

A companion to the Insight Toolkit, this is an introduction to the theory of modern medical image processing. It includes analysis of data from X-ray computer tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear medicine, and ultrasound. Using an algorithmic approach, and providing the mathematical, stat..

This book shows how to embed a tutorial directly into game design mechanics so that games naturally and comfortably teach players to have fun. It links game design principles with psychology through the game tutorial and offers easy-to-implement changes that can make a huge difference in how players..

This book provides technical information on multimedia security and steganography as well as the fundamental theoretical framework for developing extensive advanced techniques. By understanding essential principles of multimedia security and steganographic systems, readers can develop novel ideas in..

This book provides technical information on multimedia security and steganography as well as the fundamental theoretical framework for developing extensive advanced techniques. By understanding essential principles of multimedia security and steganographic systems, readers can develop novel ideas in..

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This book provides a concrete paradigm for object-oriented modeling and programming. It introduces the use of available global positioning data for the development of applications involving digital maps. The author describes the different formats of GPS data and digital maps and shows how to use rec..

Concentrating on the "nuts and bolts" of writing ray tracing programs, this new and revised edition emphasizes practical and implementation issues and takes the reader through all the details needed to write a modern rendering system. Most importantly, the book adds many C++ code segments, and adds ..