This handbook presents a thorough Overview in 45 chapters from more than 100 renowned experts in the field. It provides the tools to help overcome the problems of video storage, cataloging, and retrieval, by exploring content standardization and other content classification and analysis methods. The challenge of these complex problems make this book a must-have for video database practitioners in the fields of image and video processing, computer vision, multimedia systems, data mining, and many other diverse disciplines. Topics include video segmentation and summarization, archiving and retrieval, and modeling and representation.
In this report
we provide an Overview of several closely related methods developed during the last few yers, to smooth, denoise,
edit, compress, transmit, and animate very large polygonal models.
Beginning with an Overview of SQL Server 2000, this book discusses online transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytical processing (OLAP), features a tour of different SQL Server releases, and offers a guide to installation. The author describes and demonstrates the changes since SQL Server 7.0, thoroughly exploring SQL Server 2000 s capacity as a Web-enabled database server. Readers are then immersed in advanced database administration topics such as performance optimization and debugging techniques.
In this paper, we provide an Overview of the security concerns introduced by wireless LANs, current approaches to wireless LAN security, their limitations, and the weaknesses of various “band aid” security solutions. We conclude by describing how the ReefEdge Connect System provides a comprehensive solution to wireless LAN security.
LCG-2-UserGuide
This document gives an Overview of the main characteristics of the LCG-2 middleware, which is being
used for EGEE. It allows users to understand the building blocks and the available interfaces to the GRID
tools in order to run jobs and manage data.
