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Springer Multimedia Retrieval by Henk M. Blanken
Based on more than 10 years of teaching experience, Blanken and his coeditors have assembled all the topics that should be covered in advanced undergraduate or graduate courses on multimedia retrieval and multimedia databases. The single chapters of this textbook explain the general architecture of multimedia information retrieval systems and cover various metadata languages such as Dublin Core, RDF, or MPEG. The authors emphasize high-level features and show how these are used in mathematical models to support the retrieval process. For each chapter, there's detail on further reading, and additional exercises and teaching material is available online. Cybernetic View of Robot Cognition and Perception.- Map Building.- Path Planning.- Navigation Using a Genetic Algorithm.- Robot Programming Packages.- Robot Parameter Display.- Program for BotSpeak.- Gripper Control Program.- Program for Sonar Reading Display.- Program for Wandering Within the Workspace.- Program for Tele-operation.- A Complete Program for Autonomous Navigation.- Imaging Geometry.- Image Capture Program.- Building 3D Perception Using a Kalman Filter.- Program for 3D Perception.- Perceptions of Non-planar Surfaces.- Intelligent Garbage Collection.