Video Coding For Mobile Communications Efficiency, Complexity, and Resilience

This book concentrates on three main challenges of video coding for mobile communications: higher coding efficiency, reduced computational complexity, and improved error resilience. Unlike other high level books and articles that focus on individual aspec...

  Python Standard Library

Python Standard Library is an essential guide for serious Pythonprogrammers. Python is a modular language that imports most useful operations from the standard library (basic support modules; operating system interfaces; network protocols; file formats; d...

 Serious Games Games that educate, train and inform

erious Games: Games that Educate, Train, and Inform will help you learn how to take what you've learned in making games for fun and apply it to making serious games: games for education, training, healing, and more. It will provide an overview of all of t...

 Multilingual Speech Processing

Tanja Schultz and Katrin Kirchhoff have compiled a comprehensive overview of speech processing from a multilingual perspective. By taking this all-inclusive approach to speech processing, the editors have included theories, algorithms, and techniques that...

 C++ Network Programming Volume 1: Resolving Complexity Using Ace and Patterns

As networks, devices, and systems continue to evolve, software engineers face the unique challenge of creating reliable distributed applications within frequently changing environments. C++ Network Programming, Volume 1, provides practical solutions for d...

 VRRP Increasing Reliability and Failover with the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol

By employing the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), administrators can ensure that their networks remain up and running, thereby eliminating expensive downtime. Using VRRP to avoid network outages is essential to building accessible, robust networ...

 Design patterns explained A new perspective on object-oriented design

Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design draws together the principles of object-oriented programming with the power of design patterns to create an environment for robust and reliable software development. Packed with practi...

 The Complete PCI Express Reference Design Insights for Hardware and Software Developers

Allowing a hardware or software developer to know that a PCI Express design is correct and complete, this comprehensive reference is designed to help the engineer finish a design in minimal time. Illustrations and cross references that are not found in th...

 Bulletproof Unix

For one-semester, undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Introductory Unix, Introductory Unix Programming, and the Unix Operating System. This accessible introduction to Unix assumes no prior knowledge of Unix and gives students all the prerequisite skil...

 Essential RenderMan Fast

This volume is a practical introduction to producing images using a RenderMan renderer, and getting the most from RenderMan. You will gain access to the power of RenderMan, which has previously only been available to the elite of the Computer Graphics com...

  Inside LightWave 7

Inside LightWave 7 is designed for the intermediate to advanced 3D artist/animator who is looking to improve his or her skills and efficiency using LightWave. Inside LightWave 7 takes the reader beyond their basic knowledge of the features of LW to learn ...