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SpringerBriefs in Computer Science

5 total works

Cover of Survey of Cloud Computing

Survey of Cloud Computing

by Borko Furht

Published 1 January 2013
SpringerBriefs present concise summaries of cutting-edge research and practical applications across a wide spectrum of fields. Featuring compact volumes of 50 to 100 pages, the series covers a range of content from professional to academic. Briefs allow authors to present their ideas and readers to absorb them with minimal time investment. As part of Springer's eBook collection, SpringBriefs are published to millions of users worldwide. A Survey of Cloud Computing covers a wide range of topics making it a great tool for anyone looking for a quick, yet comprehensive reference on this subject. Cloud computing has become a significant technology trend, and many experts expect that cloud computing will reshape information technology processes and the IT marketplace. This new web based technology can be used with a variety of devices, including PCs, laptops, smart phones, and PDAs to access programs, storage, and application-development platforms over the Internet. Covering key topics like cloud computing, cloud architecture, and cloud platforms, this book is a great reference for practitioners, academicians, researchers, and students.

Cover of Driver Drowsiness Detection
This SpringerBrief presents the fundamentals of driver drowsiness detection systems, provides examples of existing products, and offers guides for practitioners interested in developing their own solutions to the problem. Driver drowsiness causes approximately 7% of all road accidents and up to 18% of fatal collisions. Proactive systems that are capable of preventing the loss of lives combine techniques, methods, and algorithms from many fields of engineering and computer science such as sensor design, image processing, computer vision, mobile application development, and machine learning which is covered in this brief.
The major concepts addressed in this brief are: the need for such systems, the different methods by which drowsiness can be detected (and the associated terminology), existing commercial solutions, selected algorithms and research directions, and a collection of examples and case studies. These topics equip the reader to understand this critical field and its applications.
Detection Systems and Solutions: Driver Drowsiness is an invaluable resource for researchers and professionals working in intelligent vehicle systems and technologies. Advanced-level students studying computer science and electrical engineering will also find the content helpful.

Cover of Survey of Augmented Reality

Survey of Augmented Reality

by Borko Furht

Published 14 October 2018
SpringerBriefs present concise summaries of cutting-edge research and practical applications across a wide spectrum of fields. Featuring compact volumes of 50 to 100 pages (approximately 20,000- 40,000 words), the series covers a range of content from professional to academic. Briefs allow authors to present their ideas and readers to absorb them with minimal time investment. As part of Springer's eBook collection, SpringBriefs are published to millions of users worldwide. Survey of Augmented Reality provides an overview of the topic of augmented reality (AR), which refers to the merging of a live view of the physical, real world with context-sensitive, computer-generated images to create a mixed reality. This book is intended for those looking for a quick and overarching understanding of this hot topic. Covering key topics like augmented reality systems, wireless augmented reality, and 3D augmentation, this book discusses the most important aspects of the field. Survey of Augmented Reality is intended for a wide variety of readers including academicians, designers, developers, educators, engineers, practitioners, researchers, and graduate students.

Cover of Innovative Web Applications for Analyzing Traffic Operations
In response to the need to improve road traffic operation, researchers implement advanced technologies and integration of systems and data, and develop state-of-the-art applications to assist traffic engineers. This SpringerBrief introduces three novel Web applications which can be an exceptional resource and a good visualization tool for traffic operators, managers, and analysts to monitor the congestion, and analyze incidents and signal performance measures. The applications offer more detailed analysis providing users with insights from different levels and perspectives. The benefit of providing these automated and interactive visualization tools is more efficient estimation of the local transport networks’ performance, thus facilitating the decision making process in case of emergency events. 

Cover of Digital Image Processing: Practical Approach

The SpringerBrief covers fundamentals of digital image processing including image concept, image file formats, creating user interfaces and many practical examples of processing images using C++ and Java. These practical examples include among other creating image histograms, performing lossless image compression, detecting change in colors, similarity-based image retrieval and others.

All practical examples are accompanied with an explanation how to create programs and the obtained results. This SpringerBrief can be very useful for the undergraduate courses on image processing, providing students with the basic tools in image analysis and processing. Practitioners and researchers working in this field will also find this research useful.