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Scope: The book provides the most up-to-date introduction to digital video and television. The entire process is covered, from video production, to its delivery through broadcasting or streaming. Video acquisition, color theory and visual quality are presented. Video compression and broadcasting systems are overviewed. The latest trends in 3DTV and digital cinema production are also presented. ...

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His current research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition and special architectures for vision and image processing. He is a student member of IEEE. both in computer science. He is currently a Ph.D. student at Michigan State University. His current research interests include pattern recognition, machine vision and their applications in robotics. India. He has also been a consu...

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Biography of Enrico Coen

M ost snapdragons (Antirrhinum majus) live in scientific obscurity, taking a humble place in springtime gardens or bouquets. However, in the 1980s, molecular geneticist Enrico Coen helped to place these lowly plants in the spotlight. His work at the John Innes Center (JIC) in Norwich, U.K., used snapdragons as a model organism for studying plant development. Coen has identified and cloned sever...

Walter Reed. A biography

WILLIAM B. BEAN, Walter Reed. A biography, Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1982, 8vo, pp. xiv, 190, $12.95. I enjoyed reading Dr Bean's life of Walter Reed. Its style and content fall somewhere between the writings of Paul de Kruif and Gwyn Macfarlane's life of Howard Florey. In fact, there are striking resemblances to Macfarlane's book, as the author has been to enormous trouble...