This book features works from world-class experts from academia, industry, and national agencies from across the world focusing on a wide spectrum of automotive fields covering in-vehicle signal processing, driver modeling, systems and safety. The essays collected in this volume present cutting-edge studies on safety, driver behavior, infrastructure, and human-to-vehicle interfaces.

This book presents works from world-class experts from academia, industry, and national agencies representing countries from across the world focused on automotive fields for in-vehicle signal processing and safety. These include cutting-edge studies on safety, driver behavior, infrastructure, and human-to-vehicle interfaces. Vehicle Systems, Driver Modeling and Safety is appropriate for researchers, engineers, and professionals working in signal processing for vehicle systems, next generation system design from driver-assisted through fully autonomous vehicles.

Bandwidth Extension of Speech Signals describes the theory and methods for quality enhancement of clean speech signals and distorted speech signals such as those that have undergone a band limitation, for instance, in a telephone network. Problems and the respective solutions are discussed for the different approaches. The different approaches are evaluated and a real-time implementation of the most promising approach is presented. The book includes topics related to speech coding, pattern- / speech recognition, speech enhancement, statistics and digital signal processing in general.

This is an edited collection by world-class experts, from diverse fields, focusing on integrating smart in-vehicle systems with human factors to enhance safety in automobiles. The book presents developments on road safety, in-vehicle technologies and state-of-the art systems. Includes coverage of DSP technologies in adaptive automobiles, algorithms and evaluation of in-car communication systems, driver-status monitoring and stress detection, in-vehicle dialogue systems and human-machine interfaces, challenges in video and audio processing for in-vehicle products, multi-sensor fusion for driver identification and vehicle to infrastructure wireless technologies.

World-class experts from academia and industry assembled at the sixth Biennial Workshop on Digital Signal Processing (DSP) for In-Vehicle Systems at Korea University, Seoul, Korea in 2013. The Workshop covered a wide spectrum of automotive fields, including in-vehicle signal processing and cutting-edge studies on safety, driver behavior, infrastructure, in-vehicle technologies. Contributors to this volume have expanded their contributions to the Workshop into full chapters with related works, methodology, experiments, and the analysis of the findings. Topics in this volume include: DSP technologies for in-vehicle systems Driver status and behavior monitoring In-Vehicle dialogue systems and human machine interfaces In-vehicle video and applications for safety Passive and active driver assistance technologies Ideas and systems for autonomous driving Transportation infrastructure

Historical sports drama. Threatened with a boycott of their 1936 Olympic Games unless they allow Jewish athletes to take part, Nazi Germany are forced to let international high jump champion and German Jew Gretel Bergmann (Karoline Herfurth) represent them in the games. Fearful that any achievement by her might undermine the German ideology of the time, they conspire to replace her with another woman, Marie Ketteler (Sebastian Urzendowsky). But the secrets that Marie holds, if uncovered, could damage the party even more so...

This book treats important topics in "Acoustic Echo and Noise Control" and reports the latest developments. Methods for enhancing the quality of transmitted speech signals are gaining growing attention in universities and in industrial development laboratories. This book, written by an international team of highly qualified experts, concentrates on the modern and advanced methods.

Users of signal processing systems are never satis?ed with the system they currently use. They are constantly asking for higher quality, faster perf- mance, more comfort and lower prices. Researchers and developers should be appreciative for this attitude. It justi?es their constant e?ort for improved systems. Better knowledge about biological and physical interrelations c- ing along with more powerful technologies are their engines on the endless road to perfect systems. This book is an impressive image of this process. After "Acoustic Echo 1 and Noise Control" published in 2004 many new results lead to "Topics in 2 Acoustic Echo and Noise Control" edited in 2006 . Today - in 2008 - even morenew?ndingsandsystemscouldbecollectedinthisbook.Comparingthe contributions in both edited volumes progress in knowledge and technology becomesclearlyvisible: Blindmethodsandmultiinputsystemsreplace"h- ble" low complexity systems. The functionality of new systems is less and less limited by the processing power available under economic constraints. The editors have to thank all the authors for their contributions. They cooperated readily in our e?ort to unify the layout of the chapters, the ter- nology, and the symbols used. It was a pleasure to work with all of them. Furthermore, it is the editors concern to thank Christoph Baumann and the Springer Publishing Company for the encouragement and help in publi- ing this book.

Users of signal processing systems are never satis?ed with the system they currently use. They are constantly asking for higher quality, faster perf- mance, more comfort and lower prices. Researchers and developers should be appreciative for this attitude. It justi?es their constant e?ort for improved systems. Better knowledge about biological and physical interrelations c- ing along with more powerful technologies are their engines on the endless road to perfect systems. This book is an impressive image of this process. After "Acoustic Echo 1 and Noise Control" published in 2004 many new results lead to "Topics in 2 Acoustic Echo and Noise Control" edited in 2006 . Today - in 2008 - even morenew?ndingsandsystemscouldbecollectedinthisbook.Comparingthe contributions in both edited volumes progress in knowledge and technology becomesclearlyvisible: Blindmethodsandmultiinputsystemsreplace"h- ble" low complexity systems. The functionality of new systems is less and less limited by the processing power available under economic constraints. The editors have to thank all the authors for their contributions. They cooperated readily in our e?ort to unify the layout of the chapters, the ter- nology, and the symbols used. It was a pleasure to work with all of them. Furthermore, it is the editors concern to thank Christoph Baumann and the Springer Publishing Company for the encouragement and help in publi- ing this book.

In this book, an international team of highly qualified experts treats important topics in "Acoustic Echo and Noise Control" and report the latest developments. Methods for enhancing the quality of transmitted speech signals are gaining growing attention in universities and in industrial development laboratories.

This book is organized in five parts: Part I gives a short introduction to acoustic echo and noise control. Part II deals with multi-microphone processing. In Part III, advanced methods for both linear and nonlinear echo cancellation are presented, and techniques for intelligent control of hands-free telephones are introduced. Part IV is devoted to noise reduction procedures. An in-depth treatment of conventional and of advanced methods is given, followed by a model based approach using Kalman filters. Finally, in Part V, selected applications of acoustic echo and noise control as well as speech and audio processing in general are outlined. Topics such as auditory scene analysis, wave field synthesis for spatial sound reproduction, in-car communication systems, and hearing aids are treated.

Bandwidth Extension of Speech Signals describes the theory and methods for quality enhancement of clean speech signals and distorted speech signals such as those that have undergone a band limitation, for instance, in a telephone network. Problems and the respective solutions are discussed for the different approaches. The different approaches are evaluated and a real-time implementation of the most promising approach is presented. The book includes topics related to speech coding, pattern- / speech recognition, speech enhancement, statistics and digital signal processing in general.

Over a quarter of a century ago, the first edition of this book (published in East Germany in 1981) was a huge best seller. Yet unfortunately it was never reprinted and it soon became a scarce collector's item. The reason: one of its co-authors, the chess trainer Gerhard Schmidt, left for the West. He thus became persona non grata in East Germany and the book was banned there. Despite the book's excellent qualities, which were acclaimed in chess circles, from then on its success could only be an underground one. However, the subject of the book is timeless and transcends frontiers, and so at last we have a new edition, fully revised by the original authors themselves to include modern games by world-class players such as Garry Kasparov, Vishy Anand, Vladimir Kramnik and Judit Polgar. The book explains, clearly, systematically and comprehensively, the strategy and tactics associated with the open file: how files are opened, blocked, occupied and exploited as roads along which to invade the enemy position. A brief introduction lays the theoretical foundations and is followed by carefully selected and organised material in the form of illustrative games, in all of which the open file is the dominant or deciding factor. In each game there is a pause at a key position where a clear verbal assessment is given; these assessments alone are of huge instructional value, since they do nothing less than teach the reader how strong chessplayers think: what to look for, how to assess, how to plan. The book benefits not only from Gerhard Schmidt's experience as a trainer but also from the huge knowledge and skill gained by Grandmaster Wolfgang Uhlmann during his long and successful career in top-class chess, which at one point brought him close to the world title, and made him indisputably one of Germany's greatest ever chessplayers.

James Macphersons Ossian zahlt im spaten 18. und fruhen 19. Jahrhundert zu den wichtigsten Werken der Weltliteratur. Dabei stilisiert man den keltischen Barden zum "Homer des Nordens" (Madame de Stael) und seine Poesie zur "Mutter der Romantik" (Uhland, Jean Paul). Indem Ossian mit 'susser Wehmut' auf die Vergangenheit zuruckblickt und die Distanz zum Ideal asthetisch kompensiert, stellt er zugleich das'Urbild' des sentimentalischen Dichters dar. Die vorliegende Arbeit unternimmt erstmals eine Gesamtdarstellung der deutschen "Ossianomanie" und macht wichtiges Textmaterial zuganglich. Grundlage hierfur bietet eine poststrukturalistische Vermittlung wirkungsasthetischer und diskursanalytischer Modelle. Band 1 behandelt die Poems of Ossian, die zeitgenoessischen Diskurse sowie die Fruhphase der Rezeption; Band 2 befasst sich mit der Haupt- und der Spatphase der Rezeption. Die Bande 3 und 4 prasentieren die rezeptionssteuernden deutschen UEbersetzungen sowie die wichtigsten Rezeptionszeugen.

James Macphersons Ossian zahlt im spaten 18. und fruhen 19. Jahrhundert zu den wichtigsten Werken der Weltliteratur. Dabei stilisiert man den keltischen Barden zum "Homer des Nordens" (Madame de Stael) und seine Poesie zur "Mutter der Romantik" (Uhland, Jean Paul). Indem Ossian mit 'susser Wehmut' auf die Vergangenheit zuruckblickt und die Distanz zum Ideal asthetisch kompensiert, stellt er zugleich das'Urbild' des sentimentalischen Dichters dar. Die vorliegende Arbeit unternimmt erstmals eine Gesamtdarstellung der deutschen "Ossianomanie" und macht wichtiges Textmaterial zuganglich. Grundlage hierfur bietet eine poststrukturalistische Vermittlung wirkungsasthetischer und diskursanalytischer Modelle. Band 1 behandelt die Poems of Ossian, die zeitgenoessischen Diskurse sowie die Fruhphase der Rezeption; Band 2 befasst sich mit der Haupt- und der Spatphase der Rezeption. Die Bande 3 und 4 prasentieren die rezeptionssteuernden deutschen UEbersetzungen sowie die wichtigsten Rezeptionszeugen.

Der Sammelband "Literatur intermedial" konzentriert sich auf eine Epoche, die in besonderer Weise von medienasthetischen Paradigmenwechseln gepragt worden ist: die Phase vom Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs bis zum Ausbruch der Studentenunruhen in den westlichen Demokratien. Bereits in den Anfangsjahren der Weimarer Republik kommt es in Deutschland zu einem kulturellen Modernisierungsschub, der den Film zu einem neuen Leitmedium aufsteigen lasst und die Literatur zu einer programmatischen Neuorientierung zwingt. Zugleich bleiben im Kontext konservativer Stroemungen uberkommene Medienpraferenzen virulent, wobei man auch hier unverkennbar auf die veranderten Rahmenbedingungen reagiert. Die Jahrzehnte zwischen der Machtubernahme durch die Nationalsozialisten und den westeuropaischen Studentenunruhen werden zumeist als Phasen ohne medienasthetische Innovationen angesehen - eine Fehleinschatzung, wie mehrere Beitrage des vorliegenden Bandes zeigen koennen, indem sie vor Augen fuhren, wie intermediale Schreibweisen und medienasthetische Reflexionen auch zwischen 1933 und 1968 konsequent weiterentwickelt werden. Zwanzig Beitrage zu Werken von Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Alfred Doeblin, Robert Musil, Gottfried Benn, Paul Celan, Heiner Muller und anderen Autoren erweisen Intermedialitat als zentrales Phanomen im Kunstdiskurs des 20. Jahrhunderts und fuhren zu einer Neubewertung etablierter Werk-, Gattungs- und Epochenmodelle.

Inmitten einer von Disputen und Kontroversen uber die Kernenergienutzung geschuttelten Zeit ist dieses Buch entstanden. Es handelt sich in erster Linie urn ein Sach- buch, das in mOglichst allgemeinverstandlicher Form uber Nutzen und Risiko der Kernenergie informieren will. Es wendet sich unvoreingenommen an alle, die sich mit der Materie Kernenergie und deren Nutzung beschiif- tigen wollen oder - aus welchem Grund auch imme- beschiiftigen mussen. Es durfte sich zur bloBen Lektiire, zum Studium, zum Unterricht und nicht zuletzt zur Meinungsbildung uber das Fur und Wider zur friedlichen Kernenergienutzung eignen. Das Buch richtet sich an die BefUrworter und Gegner der Materie und versucht, zu einer Beantwortung offener Fra- gen und damit zu einer Symbiose gegensatzlicher An- schauungen zu kommen. Wenn auf diesem Wege einige Passagen nicht ganz wertfrei ausgefallen sind, so wird urn Verstandnis gebeten, denn der Autor ist als Burger selbst in den ProzeB der Meinungsbildung miteinbezogen. Bei der Abfassung der technischen und energiewirtschaft- lichen Artikel dieses Buches hat mir Herr Dr.-Ing. Armin Mareske, Berlin, zur Seite gestanden. Der Unterzeichnete dankt ibm fUr viele Anregungen, die zur Aktualitat des Buches beigetragen haben. Ein weiterer Dank gilt meiner Frau fur die geleistete redaktionelle Arbeit. Gerhard Schmidt August 1977 Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Brauchen wir uberhaupt Kernkraftwerke? .. 1.1. Standpunkte ........................ . 1.2. Ausgangssituation ..................... . 4 1.2.1. Energiesituation der Welt - Weltproduktion und Weltverbrauch .................... . 4 1.2.2. Die Energiesituation in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ............. . 12 Das Restrisiko bei Kernkraftwerken ......... . 22 1.3. Zielvorstellungen fur den Kernkraftwerksausbau in 1.4.

Torn between the one-sided materialistic way of looking at nutrition and the ancient nutritional traditions from the Far East, we have to develop sound judgment so that our "daily nutritional practices are in accord with the Spirit." Beginning with milk, a universal foodstuff, Dr. Schmidt discusses protein, the carrier of the vital activity of the formative force; fats and oils, the stimulators of warmth and the inner intensification of the soul; carbohydrates, the mediators of form and consciousness; and the minerals, the earthly support of human Ego-organization. He shows how we can free ourselves from "vitamin thinking" and replace it with a dynamic method of looking at nutrition. This book, a sequel to The Dynamics of Nutrition, is a valuable, challenging contribution toward "a realistic striving for health."