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Illustrating essential aspects of adaptive image processing from
a computational intelligence viewpoint, the second edition of
Adaptive Image Processing: A Computational Intelligence Perspective
provides an authoritative and detailed account of computational
intelligence (CI) methods and algorithms for adaptive image
processing in regularization, edge detection, and early vision.
With three new chapters and updated information throughout, the
new edition of this popular reference includes substantial new
material that focuses on applications of advanced CI techniques in
image processing applications. It introduces new concepts and
frameworks that demonstrate how neural networks, support vector
machines, fuzzy logic, and evolutionary algorithms can be used to
address new challenges in image processing, including low-level
image processing, visual content analysis, feature extraction, and
pattern recognition.
Emphasizing developments in state-of-the-art CI techniques, such
as content-based image retrieval, this book continues to provide
educators, students, researchers, engineers, and technical managers
in visual information processing with the up-to-date understanding
required to address contemporary challenges in image content
processing and analysis.
My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J.
Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe.
It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his
role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has
changed about the threat these weapons pose. In a remarkable
career, Perry has dealt firsthand with the changing nuclear threat.
Decades of experience and special access to top-secret knowledge of
strategic nuclear options have given Perry a unique, and chilling,
vantage point from which to conclude that nuclear weapons endanger
our security rather than securing it. This book traces his thought
process as he journeys from the Cuban Missile Crisis, to crafting a
defense strategy in the Carter Administration to offset the
Soviets' numeric superiority in conventional forces, to presiding
over the dismantling of more than 8,000 nuclear weapons in the
Clinton Administration, and to his creation in 2007, with George
Shultz, Sam Nunn, and Henry Kissinger, of the Nuclear Security
Project to articulate their vision of a world free from nuclear
weapons and to lay out the urgent steps needed to reduce nuclear
dangers.
This book is a facsimile of Arabistan, first published in 1875. The
title of the work was chosen by its author to delineate the region
through which he travelled in 1874, now known as the countries of
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq. It is, however, the subtitle of
the work which better describes the author's approach to his
narrative: 'As a book of scientific exploration, this volume makes
no pretentions,' he admits. 'My motive in visiting these countries
was a desire to gratify a long-cherished wish to see strange and
curious nations which have always held for me a strange
fascination.' As a result, the narrative follows an imaginative
course as the author proceeds from Alexandria to Jerusalem, thence
via the Red Sea to Mecca. Along the way he provides an entertaining
account of his experiences, punctuating the story with amusing
anecdotes and cameos of the characters he meets en route. His
journey continues through Aden to Iran, ending at Baghdad in Iraq
where the author devotes much of his time to studying the marvels
of that ancient city, and the customs and habits of its people.
Enhanced with almost a hundred fine engravings, the book, indeed,
provides an entertaining excursion into the 'Land of the Arabian
Nights'.
My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J.
Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe.
It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his
role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has
changed about the threat these weapons pose. In a remarkable
career, Perry has dealt firsthand with the changing nuclear threat.
Decades of experience and special access to top-secret knowledge of
strategic nuclear options have given Perry a unique, and chilling,
vantage point from which to conclude that nuclear weapons endanger
our security rather than securing it. This book traces his thought
process as he journeys from the Cuban Missile Crisis, to crafting a
defense strategy in the Carter Administration to offset the
Soviets' numeric superiority in conventional forces, to presiding
over the dismantling of more than 8,000 nuclear weapons in the
Clinton Administration, and to his creation in 2007, with George
Shultz, Sam Nunn, and Henry Kissinger, of the Nuclear Security
Project to articulate their vision of a world free from nuclear
weapons and to lay out the urgent steps needed to reduce nuclear
dangers.
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