Feature Extraction and Image Processing Dedication We would like to dedicate this book to our parents: To Gloria and Joaquin Aguado‚ and to Brenda and the late Ian Nixon. Feature Extraction and Image Processing Second edition Mark S. Nixon Alberto S. Aguado Amsterdam • Boston • Heidelberg • London • New York • Oxford Paris • San Diego • San Francisco • Singapore • Sydney • Tokyo Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier Linacre House‚ Jordan
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Over the Edge of the World In 1519 Magellan and his fleet set sail from Seville‚ Spain‚ to find a water route to the Spice Islands in Indonesia. Magellan was Portuguese by birth. He first asked the King of Portugal to fund an exploration to the Spice Islands by sailing west‚ but since Portugal had already found a route to the east the king denied Magellan. However Charles I of Spain funded Magellan because Spain had not found a route to the Spice Islands as yet. Charles I gave Magellan five ships
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young age‚ using only what he could find in his grandfather’s hardware store‚ he created imaginary houses. The idiosyncratic use of these materials defined his style. Gehry remodeled his family home in Santa Monica with the money earned from Easy Edges‚ a cardboard furniture business he launched his career with. The remodeling involved surrounding the existing bungalow with corrugated steel and chain-link fence‚ effectively splitting the house open with an angled skylight. Gehry’s unconventional
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Argyros‚ C. Eberst‚ and G. Umgeher‚ “Integrated vision system for the semantic interpretation of activities where a person handles objects‚” CVIU‚ vol. 113‚ no. 6‚ pp. 682–692‚ June 2009. [215] M. Vinzce‚ M. Ayromlou‚ M. Ponweiser‚ and M. Zillich‚ “Edge projected integration of image and model cues for robust model-based object tracking‚” International Journal of Robotics Research‚ vol. 20‚ no. 7‚ pp. 533–552‚ 2001. [216] I. Weiss and M. Ray‚ “Model-based recognition of 3d objects from single images
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Conscience or Competitive Edge Introduction This case is an example of cultural differences and ethics in business. Olivia Jones‚ a buyer for a British clothing retailer‚ went on a buying trip to India for woven materials for the next season’s clothing line. Throughout her four day trip she was treated very well and shown many of the niceties of the Indian culture. It was on her last day that the tone of the trip changed for Olivia. Even though she knew it would her request would not be
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DISPATCHES FROM THE EDGE A Memoir of War‚ Disasters‚ and Survival ANDERSON COOPER To my mom and dad‚ and the spark of recognition that brought them together Contents Introduction 1 Tsunami: Washed Away 9 Iraq: Inkblots of Blood 47 Niger: Night Sweats 83 Katrina: Facing the Storm 121 Photographic Insert Aftermath 165 Epilogue 203 Author’s Note 209 Acknowledgments 211 About the Author Credits Cover Copyright About the Publisher Introduction I WAS TEN WHEN my father
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Close to the Water’s Edge Section B In our modern lives we have to form our own identity. We need to make a lot of choices concerning who we are and how we would like our lives to develop. But of course our identity is greatly affected by our childhood. The choices made by our parents and their parents are probably the most important choices ever made for us. The few people who rise in the social hierarchy is a proof of this. The short story is about the importance of our foundations. The grandmother
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1.0 THE INITIATIVE FOR THE STUDY This term paper fulfills the requirements of the specific grounds and objectives. The report is organized through the study of secondary sources of information. We have tried to put the concrete information aside from the limitations we have faced in preparing the paper. 1.1 The Grounds of Approval and Submittal The report was assigned to us by our honorable course instructor Mr. Gazi Salah Uddin as a requisite of the International Business (ITB301) course to assess
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William Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) The British novelist William Somerset Maugham‚ one of the most popular writers in English in the 20th century‚ is noted for his clarity of style and skill in storytelling. Born in Paris‚ of Irish ancestry‚ Somerset Maugham was to lead a fascinating life and would become famous for his mastery of short evocative stories that were often set in the more obscure and remote areas of the British Empire. Suffering from a bad stammer‚ he received
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large consumer products company with $7 billion in gross profit in 2009. The current Nondisposable razor line has products in both the market and value customer segments. The Clean Edge Razor is the first Nondisposable razor produced by Paramount that has a technological innovation. Paramount is relying on the Clean Edge Razor to increase sales and earn more market share in the Nondisposable razor category. * Context: In 2011 the effects of a recession are becoming less drastic than in years before
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