Tourist Destination Images and Local Culture
Tourist Destination Images and Local Culture

Author: Verena Schwaighofer

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-26

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 3658045213

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An authentic, unique and memorable destination image is of crucial importance to be competitive in the long-term. Verena Schwaighofer analyses the currently transferred image of the United Arab Emirates as a tourist destination and to what extent the traditional Arabian culture is integrated into the image strategies of image developers in this country. First of all, a detailed theoretical overview referring to various image types, the current image transfer including critical topics related to the religion of Islam, women’s role in society, behaviour, body language and dress code and the open-mindedness of the United Arab Emirates regarding local traditions related to the religion of Islam, is given. In the empirical part, a mixed method, including a qualitative media analysis (focusing on print and new media of image developers as well as newspaper articles published by journalists in the United Arab Emirates and the surrounding countries) and qualitative expert interviews are selected as appropriate research methodology.

Intelligent Human Systems Integration
Intelligent Human Systems Integration

Author: Waldemar Karwowski

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-12-30

Total Pages: 791

ISBN-13: 3319738887

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This book reports on research on innovative human systems integration and human-machine interaction, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence and automation, as well as computational modeling and simulation. It covers a wide range of applications in the area of design, construction and operation of products, systems and services, including lifecycle development and human-technology interaction. The book describes advanced methodologies and tools for evaluating and improving interface usability, new models, as well as case studies and best practices in virtual, augmented and mixed reality systems, with a special focus on dynamic environments. It also discusses different factors concerning the human, hardware, and artificial intelligence software. Based on the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Intelligent Human Systems Integration (IHSI 2018), held on January 7-9, 2018, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the book also examines the forces that are currently shaping the nature of computing and cognitive systems, such as the need for decreasing hardware costs; the importance of infusing intelligence and automation, and the related trend toward hardware miniaturization and power reduction; the necessity for a better assimilation of computation in the environment; and the social concerns regarding access to computers and systems for people with special needs. It offers a timely survey and a practice-oriented reference guide to policy- and decision-makers, human factors engineers, systems developers and users alike.

Architecture and the Image at the Turn of the 21st Century
Architecture and the Image at the Turn of the 21st Century

Author: Sanja Rodeš

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-06-28

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1040046916

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This book examines architecture, image, and media relationships as productive for architecture and architectural discourses. By arguing that the relationships between architecture and media cannot be dismissed via linear criticism of architecture and media or image, these relations are instead seen as a part of a sphere (a mediasphere) of complex relationships. In lieu of anything like a consensus on the contemporary condition of architecture (referring to the late twentieth and the twenty-first centuries), the starting point of this book is that the relationships between architecture, media, and images continue to multiply, owing to continuous technological advancements. Contemporary architecture considered in this book is related to the selected circumstances of high visibility, where architectural images are propelled into visibility and conflated with non-architectural images. This takes architecture outside of architectural-only discourse and into the public realm. By granting higher visibility to both the architectural images and architecture in the public realm, architecture can also be influenced by the various perceptions of the general public and can enter public consciousness via non-architectural media. With increased visibility, architecture’s far-reaching presence calls for more structured analysis of its nature and potential. As the analysed architecture in this book is associated with the discourses outside of architecture (some of which relate to terrorism, natural disaster, and branding and consumption), the limits of contemporary architectural discipline are questioned and extended. This book is written for academics and students in architectural history, theory, and criticism, particularly those interested in visual and media studies.

Crypto and AI
Crypto and AI

Author: Behrouz Zolfaghari

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-11-14

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 3031448073

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This book studies the intersection between cryptography and AI, highlighting the significant cross-impact and potential between the two technologies. The authors first study the individual ecosystems of cryptography and AI to show the omnipresence of each technology in the ecosystem of the other one. Next, they show how these technologies have come together in collaborative or adversarial ways. In the next section, the authors highlight the coevolution being formed between cryptography and AI. Throughout the book, the authors use evidence from state-of-the-art research to look ahead at the future of the crypto-AI dichotomy. The authors explain how they anticipate that quantum computing will join the dichotomy in near future, augmenting it to a trichotomy. They verify this through two case studies highlighting another scenario wherein crypto, AI and quantum converge. The authors study current trends in chaotic image encryption as well as information-theoretic cryptography and show how these trends lean towards quantum-inspired artificial intelligence (QiAI). After concluding the discussions, the authors suggest future research for interested researchers.

Current Trends on Knowledge-Based Systems
Current Trends on Knowledge-Based Systems

Author: Giner Alor-Hernández

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-03-13

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 3319519050

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This book presents innovative and high-quality research on the implementation of conceptual frameworks, strategies, techniques, methodologies, informatics platforms and models for developing advanced knowledge-based systems and their application in different fields, including Agriculture, Education, Automotive, Electrical Industry, Business Services, Food Manufacturing, Energy Services, Medicine and others. Knowledge-based technologies employ artificial intelligence methods to heuristically address problems that cannot be solved by means of formal techniques. These technologies draw on standard and novel approaches from various disciplines within Computer Science, including Knowledge Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Decision Support Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Software Engineering, etc. As a combination of different fields of Artificial Intelligence, the area of Knowledge-Based Systems applies knowledge representation, case-based reasoning, neural networks, Semantic Web and TICs used in different domains. The book offers a valuable resource for PhD students, Master’s and undergraduate students of Information Technology (IT)-related degrees such as Computer Science, Information Systems and Electronic Engineering.

Image Retrieval
Image Retrieval

Author: Fouad Sabry

Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable

Published: 2023-07-06

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13:

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What Is Image Retrieval A computer system that is used for browsing, searching, and retrieving images from a vast collection of digital images is called an image retrieval system (sometimes abbreviated as IRMS). In order for image retrieval to be carried out over the annotation words, the majority of the conventional and widespread methods currently in use include the addition of information to the images themselves. This metadata can take the form of captioning, keywords, titles, or descriptions. Annotating images manually is a significant investment of time, effort, and money; as a result, a significant amount of effort and research has been put into developing automatic image annotation methods. In addition, the proliferation of social web apps as well as the semantic web has been a driving force behind the development of a number of picture annotation tools that are web-based. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Image retrieval Chapter 2: Information retrieval Chapter 3: MPEG-7 Chapter 4: Content-based image retrieval Chapter 5: Automatic image annotation Chapter 6: Image organizer Chapter 7: Google Images Chapter 8: Image meta search Chapter 9: Metadata Chapter 10: Reverse image search (II) Answering the public top questions about image retrieval. (III) Real world examples for the usage of image retrieval in many fields. (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of image retrieval' technologies. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of image retrieval.

Digital Image Processing
Digital Image Processing

Author: Fouad Sabry

Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable

Published: 2023-07-06

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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What Is Digital Image Processing The processing of digital photographs by means of an algorithm on a digital computer constitutes the field of digital image processing. Digital image processing, which is a subsection or field of digital signal processing, has numerous advantages over analog image processing, which is another type of image processing. It makes it possible to apply a much wider variety of algorithms to the data that is being entered and can help solve problems like the accumulation of noise and distortion as the data is being processed. Digital image processing can be described as multidimensional systems due to the fact that images are specified over two dimensions. The creation of digital image processing and its subsequent development are primarily influenced by three factors: first, the development of computers; second, the development of mathematics; and third, the increased demand for a diverse array of applications in the fields of environment, agriculture, military, industry, and medical science. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Digital image processing Chapter 2: 2D computer graphics Chapter 3: Affine transformation Chapter 4: YIQ Chapter 5: Sobel operator Chapter 6: Canny edge detector Chapter 7: Noise reduction Chapter 8: Discrete wavelet transform Chapter 9: Scale-invariant feature transform Chapter 10: Gaussian blur (II) Answering the public top questions about digital image processing. (III) Real world examples for the usage of digital image processing in many fields. (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of digital image processing' technologies. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of digital image processing.

Automatic Image Annotation
Automatic Image Annotation

Author: Fouad Sabry

Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable

Published: 2023-07-06

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13:

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What Is Automatic Image Annotation The process of automatically assigning metadata to a digital image in the form of captioning or keywords is referred to as automatic image annotation. This procedure is carried out by a computer system. This use of computer vision techniques is utilized in image retrieval systems to organize and locate photographs of relevance from inside a database. These systems are typically found in digital libraries. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Automatic image annotation Chapter 2: Information retrieval Chapter 3: Image retrieval Chapter 4: Content-based image retrieval Chapter 5: Bag-of-words model in computer vision Chapter 6: Object detection Chapter 7: Learning to rank Chapter 8: List of datasets for machine-learning research Chapter 9: Multilinear principal component analysis Chapter 10: Annotation (II) Answering the public top questions about automatic image annotation. (III) Real world examples for the usage of automatic image annotation in many fields. (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of automatic image annotation' technologies. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of automatic image annotation.

Medical Image Watermarking
Medical Image Watermarking

Author: Amit Kumar Singh

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-08-11

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 3319576992

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This book presents medical image watermarking techniques and algorithms for telemedicine and other emerging applications. This book emphasizes on medical image watermarking to ensure the authenticity of transmitted medical information. It begins with an introduction of digital watermarking, important characteristics, novel applications, different watermarking attacks and standard benchmark tools. This book also covers spatial and transform domain medical image watermarking techniques and their merits and limitations. The authors have developed improved/novel watermarking techniques for telemedicine applications that offer higher robustness, better perceptual quality and increased embedding capacity and secure watermark. The suggested methods may find potential applications in the prevention of patient identity theft and health data management issues which is a growing concern in telemedicine applications. This book provides a sound platform for understanding the medical image watermarking paradigm for researchers in the field and advanced-level students. Industry professionals working in this field, as well as other emerging applications demanding robust and secure watermarking will find this book useful as a reference.

UAE Underwater Explorer
UAE Underwater Explorer

Author: Carol Harris

Publisher:

Published: 2003-03

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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At last - a dedicated summary of the 30 top dive sites around the United Arab Emirates. Covering both coastlines, all sites have suggested dive plans and informative, detailed illustrations: wreck dives even include a comprehensive history and the circumstance of loss. The Underwater Explorer is peppered with high quality photographs of local marine life taken on site. Written by avid divers who want to share their passion and local knowledge with others, the Underwater Explorer is a must for divers of all abilities looking to get the most out of their time in the UAE. Written by avid divers who want to share their passion and local knowledge with others, the Underwater Explorer is a must for divers of all abilities looking to get the most out of their time in the UAE. It contains: Details of over 30 dive sites; The low-down of when, where and how to go diving in the UAE; Quality underwater photographs; Detailed drawings of the layout of sites; GPS co- ordinates for dive sites and harbours; An overview of the UAE to help visitors get their bearings; Dangerous marine life and first aid; Additional information, such as diving organisations, insurance, UAE law and the environment.