The big idea in this book is to lay out the rules that tell a computer how to take 3D shapes and lights and create a picture-one that would pass for a photograph of that scene if it existed. So our driving problem is the simulation of Nature’s illumination of a scene, the capturing of that illumination on film, and its presentation to an observer.
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This ebook fills a useful need in explaining a new view of signal processing based on flexible time frequency analysis and its applications. It has been well received and used by researchers and engineers alike. In addition, it was also used as a textbook for graduate courses at several leading universities.
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In this book we will be concerned with supervised learning, which is the problem of learning input-output mappings from empirical data (the training dataset). Depending on the characteristics of the output, this problem is known as either regression, for continuous outputs, or classification, when outputs are discrete.
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A book to give beginning computer science majors a solid foundation for further study. It is also to give students who will not take advanced courses in computer science the conceptual tools that the field provides.
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The goal of this book is simple. We want to take a look at something that naturally occurs in our physical world, then determine how we can write code to simulate that occurrence. In the end, if this book is anything, it is really just a good old-fashioned programming book.
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This text is careful to address the interests and background not only of physicists, but of sophisticated students and researchers in mathematics, biology, engineering, computer science, and the social sciences.
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In this course, the students learn the basics of programming (variables, conditionals, loops, objects, arrays) as well as a survey of applications related to making interactive projects (images, pixels, computer vision, networking, data, 3D).
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