Interactive Segmentation Techniques
by Jia He, Chang-Su Kim, C.-C. Jay Kuo
This book focuses on interactive segmentation techniques, which have been extensively studied in recent decades. Interactive segmentation emphasizes clear extraction of objects of interest, whose locations are roughly indicated by human interactions based on high level perception. This book will first introduce classic graph-cut segmentation algorithms and then discuss state-of-the-art techniques, including...
Price: $54.99 | Publisher: Springer | Release: 2013
FREE EBOOK - Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor Architecture and Tools 
by Rezaur Rahman
Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor Architecture and Tools: The Guide for Application Developers provides developers a comprehensive introduction and in-depth look at the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor architecture and the corresponding parallel data structure tools and algorithms used in the various technical computing applications for which it is suitable. It also examines the source code-level optimizations that can ...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
by Samarth Brahmbhatt
Practical OpenCV is a hands-on project book that shows you how to get the best results from OpenCV, the open-source computer vision library.Computer vision is key to technologies like object recognition, shape detection, and depth estimation. OpenCV is an open-source library with over 2500 algorithms that you can use to do all of these, as well as track moving objects, extract 3D models, and overlay augment...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
Computer Science Programming Basics in Ruby
by Ophir Frieder, Gideon Frieder, David Grossman
If you know basic high-school math, you can quickly learn and apply the core concepts of computer science with this concise, hands-on book. Led by a team of experts, you'll quickly understand the difference between computer science and computer programming, and you'll learn how algorithms help you solve computing problems.Each chapter builds on material introduced earlier in the book, so you can m...
Price: $19.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Cathy O'Neil, Rachel Schutt
Now that people are aware that data can make the difference in an election or a business model, data science as an occupation is gaining ground. But how can you get started working in a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary field that's so clouded in hype? This insightful book, based on Columbia University's Introduction to Data Science class, tells you what you need to know.In many of these chapter-lon...
Price: $5.57 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Learning SciPy for Numerical and Scientific Computing
by Francisco J. Blanco-Silva
It's essential to incorporate workflow data and code from various sources in order to create fast and effective algorithms to solve complex problems in science and engineering. Data is coming at us faster, dirtier, and at an ever increasing rate. There is no need to employ difficult-to-maintain code, or expensive mathematical engines to solve your numerical computations anymore. SciPy guarantees fast, ...
Price: $16.48 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
Big Data Analytics with R and Hadoop
by Vignesh Prajapati
Big data analytics is the process of examining large amounts of data of a variety of types to uncover hidden patterns, unknown correlations, and other useful information. Such information can provide competitive advantages over rival organizations and result in business benefits, such as more effective marketing and increased revenue. New methods of working with big data, such as Hadoop and MapReduce, offer...
Price: $5.77 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
FREE EBOOK - Practical Data Analysis
by Hector Cuesta
Plenty of small businesses face big amounts of data but lack the internal skills to support quantitative analysis. Understanding how to harness the power of data analysis using the latest open source technology can lead them to providing better customer service, the visualization of customer needs, or even the ability to obtain fresh insights about the performance of previous products. Practical Data Analys...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
by Aung Sithu Kyaw, Clifford Peters, Thet Naing Swe
This book fills the gap between artificial intelligence (AI) books designed to learn underlying AI algorithms and general Unity3D books written to cover basic scene setup and scripting in Unity3D. Game AI Scripting in Unity3D covers implementing AI techniques such as flocking, pathfinding, path following, and behavior trees in Unity3D with example projects.Game AI Scripting in Unity3D will show you how to a...
Price: $26.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
FREE EBOOK - Open Data Structures
by Pat Morin
Offered as an introduction to the field of data structures and algorithms, Open Data Structures covers the implementation and analysis of data structures for sequences (lists), queues, priority queues, unordered dictionaries, ordered dictionaries, and graphs. Focusing on a mathematically rigorous approach that is fast, practical, and efficient, Morin clearly and briskly presents instruction along with sourc...
Price: $32.95 | Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2013