In-Vehicle Corpus and Signal Processing for Driver Behavior is comprised of expanded papers from the third biennial DSPinCARS held in Istanbul in June 2007. The goal is to bring together scholars working on the latest techniques, standards, and emerging deployment on this central field of living at the age of wireless communications, smart vehicles, and human-machine-assisted safer and comfortable driving. Topics covered in this book include: improved vehicle safe...

This collection of poetry was written over many years from my late teens until the present day. The poems are not in chronological or subject order but are diverse enough in style and subject matter that I am sure there is something to please everyone, even the most discerning reader. There are poems that will inspire and touch your emotions, make you happy one minute, sad the next, make you laugh joyfully, then fight back tears. I hope you enjoy this collection "I Laughed a Smile."

Song of the Waterwheel is a true love story of two unlikely people, opposite personalities whose red-hot romance established an unbreakable marriage that, for twenty-eight years, withstood all tests: time, multiple disasters, treachery and betrayal, financial loss, births, sickness, even death itselfbecause God was the author of their story.

Are You Living a Life of Achievements… or a Life of Success?From the outside, you're doing everything right — building the business, hitting the milestones, growing year after year. But if you're honest, it doesn't feel the way you thought it would.The business still depends on you more than it should. The pressure never really shuts off. Freedom always feels like it's just one more level away.So you push. You optimize. You chase the next win — convinced that when y...

Your home should be a place of safety—not stress, surprises, or hidden damage.Yet most homeowners are never taught how mold forms, where water damage begins, or how small issues quietly turn into major losses. By the time problems become visible, the damage is already done.In Protecting the Nest, licensed mold and water damage professional Cesar A. Hernandez shares what years of inspections, storm recovery, and remediation have taught him: most home damage is preve...

This book presents an interdisciplinary selection of cutting-edge research on RGB-D based computer vision. Features: discusses the calibration of color and depth cameras, the reduction of noise on depth maps and methods for capturing human performance in 3D; reviews a selection of applications which use RGB-D information to reconstruct human figures, evaluate energy consumption and obtain accurate action classification; presents an approach for 3D object retrieval and for the reconstructio...

Discover a more lighthearted side of the funeral industry in this collection of real-life stories from the authors of Mortuary Confidential.Not knowing what to do, I sat on the church steps and waited. As the gravity of my failure began to well up in me, I began to cry . . . I Had Lost The Hearse!Funerals and the all the things that accompany them are traditionally somber, contemplative events in which the bereaved look to their undertaker...

An emerging trend in the automobile industry is its convergence with information technology (IT). Indeed, it has been estimated that almost 90% of new automobile technologies involve IT in some form. Smart driving technologies that improve safety as well as green fuel technologies are quite representative of the convergence between IT and automobiles. The smart driving technologies include three key elements: sensing of driving environments, detection of objects and poten...

A large international conference on Advances in Machine Learning and Data Analysis was held in UC Berkeley, California, USA, October 22-24, 2008, under the auspices of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science (WCECS 2008). This volume contains sixteen revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers participating in the conference. Topics covered include Expert system, Intelligent decision making, Knowledge-based systems, Knowledge extraction, Data anal...

The term “haptics” refers to the science of sensing and manipulation through touch. Multiple disciplines such as biomechanics, psychophysics, robotics, neuroscience, and software engineering converge to support haptics, and generally, haptic research is done by three communities: the robotics community, the human computer interface community, and the virtual reality community.This book is different from any other book that has looked at haptics. The authors treat haptics as a new m...

This important text/reference presents state-of-the-art research on intelligent vehicles, covering not only topics of object/obstacle detection and recognition, but also aspects of vehicle motion control. With an emphasis on both high-level concepts, and practical detail, the text links theory, algorithms, and issues of hardware and software implementation in intelligent vehicle research. Topics and features: presents a thorough introduction to the development and latest progress in intell...

“[Lynch] brings the lessons of death to life, and turns life and death into art.” —Time Out New YorkHere is the voice of both witness and functionary. Lynch stands between “the living and the living who have died” with outrage and amazement, awe and calm, straining for the brief glimpse we all get of what mortality means to a vital species.