Image processing algorithms based on the mammalian visual cortex are powerful tools for extraction information and manipulating images. This book reviews the neural theory and translates them into digital models. Applications are given in areas of image recognition, foveation, image fusion and information extraction. The third edition reflects renewed international interest in pulse image processing with updated sections presenting several newly developed applications. This edition also introduces a suite of Python scripts that assist readers in replicating results presented in the text and to further develop their own applications.

This monograph is the first book-length study of foreign direct investment in Southeast Asia during both the late colonial period and in the contemporary period. It examines the leading Southeast Asian countries receiving foreign investment this century. The arrival of today's Asian investors, from Japan and the four Asian NICs, is described after a brief discussion of the transitionary period of warfare, decolonization and assertion of newly independent states. Special attention is given to the impact of foreign investment on the economic development of the host country.

Image processing algorithms based on the mammalian visual cortex are powerful tools for extraction information and manipulating images. This book reviews the neural theory and translates them into digital models. Applications are given in areas of image recognition, foveation, image fusion and information extraction. The third edition reflects renewed international interest in pulse image processing with updated sections presenting several newly developed applications. This edition also introduces a suite of Python scripts that assist readers in replicating results presented in the text and to further develop their own applications.

JavaTech is a practical introduction to the Java programming language with an emphasis on the features that benefit technical computing. After presenting the basics of object-oriented programming in Java, it examines introductory topics such as graphical interfaces and thread processes. It goes on to review network programming and develops Web client-server examples for tasks such as monitoring remote devices. The focus then shifts to distributed computing with RMI. Finally, it examines how Java programs can access the local platform and interact with hardware. Topics include combining native code with Java, communication via serial lines, and programming embedded processors. An extensive web site supports the book with additional instructional materials. JavaTech demonstrates the ease with which Java can be used to create powerful network applications and distributed computing applications. It will be used as a textbook for programming courses, and by researchers who need to learn Java for a particular task.

It was stated in the preface to the ?rst edition of this book that image p- cessing by electronic means has been a very active ?eld for decades. This is certainly still true and the goal has been, and still is, to have a machine perform the same image functions which humans do quite easily. In reaching this goal we have learnt about the human mechanisms and how to apply this knowledgetoimageprocessingproblems. Althoughthereisstillalongwayto go, we have learnt a lot during the last ?ve or six years. This new information andsomeideasbaseduponithasbeenaddedtothesecondeditionofourbook The present edition includes the theory and application of two cortical models: the PCNN (pulse coupled neural network) and the ICM (intersecting cortical model). These models are based upon biological models of the visual cortex and it is prudent to review the algorithms that strongly in?uenced the development of the PCNN and ICM. The outline of the book is otherwise very much the same as in the ?rst edition although several new application examples have been added. In Chap. 7 a few of these applications will be reviewed including original ideas by co-workers and colleagues. Special thanks are due to Soonil D. D. V. Rughooputh, thedeanoftheFacultyofScienceattheUniversityofMauritius Guisong, andHarryC. S. Rughooputh, thedeanoftheFacultyofEngineering at the University of Mauritius. We should also like to acknowledge that Guisong Wang, a doctoral c- didate in the School of Computational Sciences at GMU, made a signi?cant contribution to Chap. 5. We would also like to acknowledge the work of several diploma and Ph. D. studentsatKTH, inparticularJennyAtmer, NilsZetterlundandUlfEk

This monograph is the first book-length study of foreign direct investment in Southeast Asia during both the late colonial period and in the contemporary period. It examines the leading Southeast Asian countries receiving foreign investment this century. The arrival of today's Asian investors, from Japan and the four Asian NICs, is described after a brief discussion of the transitionary period of warfare, decolonization and assertion of newly independent states. Special attention is given to the impact of foreign investment on the economic development of the host country.

JavaTech is a practical introduction to the Java programming language with an emphasis on the features that benefit technical computing. After presenting the basics of object-oriented programming in Java, it examines introductory topics such as graphical interfaces and thread processes. It goes on to review network programming and develops Web client-server examples for tasks such as monitoring remote devices. The focus then shifts to distributed computing with RMI. Finally, it examines how Java programs can access the local platform and interact with hardware. Topics include combining native code with Java, communication via serial lines, and programming embedded processors. An extensive web site supports the book with additional instructional materials. JavaTech demonstrates the ease with which Java can be used to create powerful network applications and distributed computing applications. It will be used as a textbook for programming courses, and by researchers who need to learn Java for a particular task.