For courses in Image Processing and Computer Vision. For years, Image Processing has been the foundational text for the study of digital image processing. The book is suited for students at the college senior and first-year graduate level with prior background in mathematical analysis, vectors, matrices, probability, statistics, linear systems, and computer programming. As in all earlier editions, the focus of this edition of the book is on fundamentals. The 4th Edition is based on an extensive survey of faculty, students, and independent readers in 5 institutions from 3 countries. Their feedback led to epanded or new coverage of topics such as deep learning and deep neural networks, including convolutional neural nets, the scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT), maimally-stable etremal regions (MSERs), graph cuts, k-means clustering and superpiels, active contours (snakes and level sets), and eact histogram matching. Major improvements were made in reorganising the material on image transforms into a more cohesive presentation, and in the discussion of spatial kernels and spatial filtering.

The Strange Case of the Missing Myelin is a scientific text. The volume of information and the rigor with which it is expounded are determinant. It is not journalistic narrative, yet it uses language honestly to allure and hold the interest of the reader. The author resorts to a wide range of tools. The enigmatic chapter headings urge the reader on to decipher their meaning. The short paragraphs prevent fatigue. The anecdote, the diaphanous wording so quick to offer an explanation when technical terms come up, the literary quotes and historical or mythological footnotes, all contribute to pleasure ful reading. And so the didactic intentions of the author are fulfilled. The analogy with the myth of Actaeon, King of Tebas, who was devoured by his hounds ate the wrathful orders of Diana, strikes me as beautifully appropriate. Were the dogs unable to recognize their master? Or was it because the goddess had covered him with a deerhide that the dogs misdirected their aggressivity? This is precisely the nature of the mystery to date that would explain the antigen-antibody interrelation and the lack of recognition of the bodys own myelinic antigens (Actaeon) by the misdirected immune system (the dogs). Never was there a more elegant literary portrait of the immunological conflict behind multiple sclerosis. Prof. Eduardo Varela de Seijas (extract from Prologue).

The Treasure of the Heavens is 3 books in 1...First: The life of a thief (Dismas) that reached the dream of dreams, stealing The Treasure of the Heavens in Jerusalem. Second: The warfare suffered by a roman soldier (Longinus) converted to christianity between the Gospel of Christ in him and the iniquity surrounding every step he takes back to the Golgotha. Third: Some life moments and views of the author in our way to the Golgotha following Christ.

This volume brings together 19 studies of open air rock carving on the prehistoric Atlantic region. Regional case studies include Ireland, Brittany, Galicia, Portugal, Morocco and Western Sahara, as well as a particular focus on the Canary Islands, where the conference from which the papers were drawn was held. A unifying thread to the collection is the desire to place the carvings as fully as possible in their landscape and thus social setting. Essays in Spanish, English and French.