Download or read book Vanishing Moments written by Eric Schocket and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanishing Moments analyzes how various American authors have reified class through their writing, from the first influx of industrialism in the 1850s to the end of the Great Depression in the early 1940s. Eric Schocket uses this history to document America’s long engagement with the problem of class stratification and demonstrates how deeply America’s desire to deny the presence of class has marked even its most labor-conscious cultural texts. Schocket offers careful readings of works by Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, William Dean Howells, Jack London, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Muriel Rukeyser, and Langston Hughes, among others, and explores how these authors worked to try to heal the rift between the classes. He considers the challenges writers faced before the Civil War in developing a language of class amidst the predominant concerns about race and slavery; how early literary realists dealt with the threat of class insurrection; how writers at the turn of the century attempted to span the divide between the classes by going undercover as workers; how early modernists used working-class characters and idioms to shape their aesthetic experiments; and how leftists in the 1930s struggled to develop an adequate model to connect class and literature. Vanishing Moments’ unique combination of a broad historical scope and in-depth readings makes it an essential book for scholars and students of American literature and culture, as well as for political scientists, economists, and humanists. Eric Schocket is Associate Professor of American Literature at Hampshire College. “An important book containing many brilliant arguments—hard-hitting and original. Schocket demonstrates a sophisticated acquaintance with issues within the working-class studies movement.” --Barbara Foley, Rutgers University

Download or read book Vanishing Moments written by Eric Schocket and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2006-12-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanishing Moments analyzes how various American authors have reified class through their writing, from the first influx of industrialism in the 1850s to the end of the Great Depression in the early 1940s. Eric Schocket uses this history to document America’s long engagement with the problem of class stratification and demonstrates how deeply America’s desire to deny the presence of class has marked even its most labor-conscious cultural texts. Schocket offers careful readings of works by Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, William Dean Howells, Jack London, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Muriel Rukeyser, and Langston Hughes, among others, and explores how these authors worked to try to heal the rift between the classes. He considers the challenges writers faced before the Civil War in developing a language of class amidst the predominant concerns about race and slavery; how early literary realists dealt with the threat of class insurrection; how writers at the turn of the century attempted to span the divide between the classes by going undercover as workers; how early modernists used working-class characters and idioms to shape their aesthetic experiments; and how leftists in the 1930s struggled to develop an adequate model to connect class and literature. Vanishing Moments’ unique combination of a broad historical scope and in-depth readings makes it an essential book for scholars and students of American literature and culture, as well as for political scientists, economists, and humanists. Eric Schocket is Associate Professor of American Literature at Hampshire College. “An important book containing many brilliant arguments—hard-hitting and original. Schocket demonstrates a sophisticated acquaintance with issues within the working-class studies movement.” --Barbara Foley, Rutgers University

Download or read book Wavelets Their Friends and what They Can Do for You written by Martin J. Mohlenkamp and published by European Mathematical Society. This book was released on 2008 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These notes introduce the central concepts surrounding wavelets and their applications. By focusing on the essential ideas and arguments, the authors enable readers to get to the heart of the matter as quickly as possible. A list of references guides readers interested in further study to the appropriate places in the literature for detailed proofs and real applications. The authors begin with the notion of time-frequency analysis, present the multiresolution analysis and basic wavelet construction, introduce the many friends, relatives, and mutations of wavelets, and finally give a selection of applications. This book is suitable for beginning graduate students and above. A preliminary chapter containing some of the prerequisite concepts and definitions is included for reference.

Download or read book Digital Image Denoising in MATLAB written by Chi-Wah Kok and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-06-10 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a review of image denoising algorithms with practical MATLAB implementation guidance Digital Image Denoising in MATLAB provides a comprehensive treatment of digital image denoising, containing a variety of techniques with applications in high-quality photo enhancement as well as multi-dimensional signal processing problems such as array signal processing, radar signal estimation and detection, and more. Offering systematic guidance on image denoising in theories and in practice through MATLAB, this hands-on guide includes practical examples, chapter summaries, analytical and programming problems, computer simulations, and source codes for all algorithms discussed in the book. The book explains denoising algorithms including linear and nonlinear filtering, Wiener filtering, spatially adaptive and multi-channel processing, transform and wavelet domains processing, singular value decomposition, and various low variance optimization and low rank processing techniques. Throughout the text, the authors address the theory, analysis, and implementation of the denoising algorithms to help readers solve their image processing problems and develop their own solutions. Explains how the quality of an image can be quantified in MATLAB Discusses what constitutes a “naturally looking” image in subjective and analytical terms Presents denoising techniques for a wide range of digital image processing applications Describes the use of denoising as a pre-processing tool for various signal processing applications or big data analysis Requires only a fundamental knowledge of digital signal processing Includes access to a companion website with source codes, exercises, and additional resources Digital Image Denoising in MATLAB is an excellent textbook for undergraduate courses in digital image processing, recognition, and statistical signal processing, and a highly useful reference for researchers and engineers working with digital images, digital video, and other applications requiring denoising techniques.

Download or read book A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing written by Stephane Mallat and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mallat's book is the undisputed reference in this field - it is the only one that covers the essential material in such breadth and depth. - Laurent Demanet, Stanford UniversityThe new edition of this classic book gives all the major concepts, techniques and applications of sparse representation, reflecting the key role the subject plays in today's signal processing. The book clearly presents the standard representations with Fourier, wavelet and time-frequency transforms, and the construction of orthogonal bases with fast algorithms. The central concept of sparsity is explained and applied to signal compression, noise reduction, and inverse problems, while coverage is given to sparse representations in redundant dictionaries, super-resolution and compressive sensing applications.Features:* Balances presentation of the mathematics with applications to signal processing* Algorithms and numerical examples are implemented in WaveLab, a MATLAB toolboxNew in this edition* Sparse signal representations in dictionaries* Compressive sensing, super-resolution and source separation* Geometric image processing with curvelets and bandlets* Wavelets for computer graphics with lifting on surfaces* Time-frequency audio processing and denoising* Image compression with JPEG-2000* New and updated exercisesA Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing: The Sparse Way, Third Edition, is an invaluable resource for researchers and R&D engineers wishing to apply the theory in fields such as image processing, video processing and compression, bio-sensing, medical imaging, machine vision and communications engineering.Stephane Mallat is Professor in Applied Mathematics at École Polytechnique, Paris, France. From 1986 to 1996 he was a Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, and between 2001 and 2007, he co-founded and became CEO of an image processing semiconductor company. - Includes all the latest developments since the book was published in 1999, including its application to JPEG 2000 and MPEG-4 - Algorithms and numerical examples are implemented in Wavelab, a MATLAB toolbox - Balances presentation of the mathematics with applications to signal processing

Download or read book Computational Intelligence and Security written by Yunping Wang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-09-13 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The refereed post-proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security are presented in this volume. The 116 papers were submitted to two rounds of careful review. Papers cover bio-inspired computing, evolutionary computation, learning systems and multi-agents, cryptography, information processing and intrusion detection, systems and security, image and signal processing, and pattern recognition.

Download or read book Practical Guide To Chemometrics written by Paul Gemperline and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-04-16 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The limited coverage of data analysis and statistics offered in most undergraduate and graduate analytical chemistry courses is usually focused on practical aspects of univariate methods. Drawing in real-world examples, Practical Guide to Chemometrics, Second Edition offers an accessible introduction to application-oriented multivariate meth

Download or read book Advances in Signal Transforms written by Jaakko Astola and published by Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Digital signal transforms are of a fundamental value in digital signal and image processing. Their role is manifold. Transforms selected appropriately enable substantial compressing signals and images for storage and transmission. No signal recovery, image reconstruction and restoration task can be efficiently solved without using digital signal transforms. Transforms are successfully used for logic design and digital data encryption. Fast transforms are the main tools for acceleration of computations in digital signal and image processing. The volume collects in one book most recent developments in the theory and practice of the design and usage of transforms in digital signal and image processing. It emerged from the series of reports published by Tampere International Centre for Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology. For the volume, all contributions are appropriately updated to represent the state of the art in the field and to cover the most recent developments in different aspects of the theory and applications of transforms. The book consists of two parts that represent two major directions in the field: development of new transforms and development of transform based signal and image processing algorithms. The first part contains four chapters devoted to recent advances in transforms for image compression and switching and logic design and to new fast transforms for digital holography and tomography. In the second part, advanced transform based signal and image algorithms are considered: signal and image local adaptive restoration methods and two complementing families of signal and image re-sampling algorithms, fast transform based discrete sinc-interpolation and spline theory based ones."--Publisher.

Download or read book A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing written by Stephane Mallat and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1999-09-14 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to serve as an invaluable reference for anyone concerned with the application of wavelets to signal processing. It has evolved from material used to teach "wavelet signal processing" courses in electrical engineering departments at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tel Aviv University, as well as applied mathematics departments at the Courant Institute of New York University and ÉcolePolytechnique in Paris. - Provides a broad perspective on the principles and applications of transient signal processing with wavelets - Emphasizes intuitive understanding, while providing the mathematical foundations and description of fast algorithms - Numerous examples of real applications to noise removal, deconvolution, audio and image compression, singularity and edge detection, multifractal analysis, and time-varying frequency measurements - Algorithms and numerical examples are implemented in Wavelab, which is a Matlab toolbox freely available over the Internet - Content is accessible on several level of complexity, depending on the individual reader's needs New to the Second Edition - Optical flow calculation and video compression algorithms - Image models with bounded variation functions - Bayes and Minimax theories for signal estimation - 200 pages rewritten and most illustrations redrawn - More problems and topics for a graduate course in wavelet signal processing, in engineering and applied mathematics

Download or read book Illegibility written by William S. Allen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophical significance of Maurice Blanchot's writings has rarely been in doubt. Specifying the nature and implications of his thinking has proved much less easy, particularly in reference to the key figure of G. W. F. Hegel. Examination reveals that Blanchot's thinking is persistently oriented towards a questioning of the terms of Hegel's thought, while nevertheless remaining within its themes, whichshows how rigorously he studied Hegel's works but also how radical his critique of them became. Equally, it allows for a crucial discussion of the differences between Blanchot's responses to Hegel and those of Jacques Derrida, with the implicit suggestion that in some ways Blanchot's critique of Hegel is more far-reaching than that developed by Derrida. William S. Allen demonstrates those aspects of Hegelian thought that permeate Blanchot's writings and, in turn, develops a detailed three-way analysis of Derrida, Hegel, and Blanchot. The key question around which this analysis develops is that of the relation between thought and language concerning the issue of the infinite and its legibility. Illegibility introduces a new and substantially philosophical account of Blanchot's importance, and also showshow his writings laid the ground for Derrida's workswhile developing their own uniquely challenging response to the problems of post-Hegelian thought.

Download or read book Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on WEB Delivering of Music written by Jaime Delgado and published by Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers(IEEE). This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-three papers from the September 2004 conference present new developments in audio processing, music notation, music analysis, music distribution, digital rights management, security, and business models. The three music analysis papers present an audio tool for the chromatic indexing of music, a compression-based method for hierarchical music clustering, and a leadsheet model for content-based audio identification. Other topics include MPEG-21 and music notation applications, the secure representation of multimedia content licenses, a collaborative music DJ for ad hoc networks, and the impact of legal download services. The contributors are industry and academic researchers in Europe. There is no subject index. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Download or read book Two Dimensional Wavelets and their Relatives written by Jean-Pierre Antoine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-12 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two-dimensional wavelets offer a number of advantages over discrete wavelet transforms, in particular for analysis of real-time signals. This book provides thorough and comprehensive treatment of 2-D wavelets, with extensive use of practical applications and illustrative examples throughout. For engineers, physicists and mathematicians.

Download or read book Multiresolution Frequency Domain Technique for Electromagnetics written by Mesut Gökten and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, a general frequency domain numerical method similar to the finite difference frequency domain (FDFD) technique is presented. The proposed method, called the multiresolution frequency domain (MRFD) technique, is based on orthogonal Battle-Lemarie and biorthogonal Cohen-Daubechies-Feauveau (CDF) wavelets. The objective of developing this new technique is to achieve a frequency domain scheme which exhibits improved computational efficiency figures compared to the traditional FDFD method: reduced memory and simulation time requirements while retaining numerical accuracy. The newly introduced MRFD scheme is successfully applied to the analysis of a number of electromagnetic problems, such as computation of resonance frequencies of one and three dimensional resonators, analysis of propagation characteristics of general guided wave structures, and electromagnetic scattering from two dimensional dielectric objects. The efficiency characteristics of MRFD techniques based on different wavelets are compared to each other and that of the FDFD method. Results indicate that the MRFD techniques provide substantial savings in terms of execution time and memory requirements, compared to the traditional FDFD method. Table of Contents: Introduction / Basics of the Finite Difference Method and Multiresolution Analysis / Formulation of the Multiresolution Frequency Domain Schemes / Application of MRFD Formulation to Closed Space Structures / Application of MRFD Formulation to Open Space Structures / A Multiresolution Frequency Domain Formulation for Inhomogeneous Media / Conclusion

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Download or read book Computing And Information Technologies Exploring Emerging Technologies Procs Of The Intl Conf written by George Antoniou and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001-08-28 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a balanced presentation of the latest techniques, algorithms and applications in computer science and engineering. The papers, written by eminent researchers in their fields, provide a vehicle for new research and development.The proceedings have been selected for coverage in:• Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)

Download or read book Multiresolution Signal Decomposition written by Paul A. Haddad and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth, integrated, and up-to-date exposition of the topic of signal decomposition techniques. Application areas of these techniques include speech and image processing, machine vision, information engineering, High-Definition Television, and telecommunications. The book will serve as the major reference for those entering the field, instructors teaching some or all of the topics in an advanced graduate course and researchers needing to consult an authoritative source.n The first book to give a unified and coherent exposition of multiresolutional signal decomposition techniquesn Classroom tested textbook clearly describes the commonalities among three key methods-transform coding, and wavelet transformsn Gives comparative performance evaluations of many proposed techniques

Download or read book Hilbert Huang Transform and Its Applications written by Norden Eh Huang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2005 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The HilbertOCoHuang Transform (HHT) represents a desperate attempt to break the suffocating hold on the field of data analysis by the twin assumptions of linearity and stationarity. Unlike spectrograms, wavelet analysis, or the WignerOCoVille Distribution, HHT is truly a time-frequency analysis, but it does not require an a priori functional basis and, therefore, the convolution computation of frequency. The method provides a magnifying glass to examine the data, and also offers a different view of data from nonlinear processes, with the results no longer shackled by spurious harmonics OCo the artifacts of imposing a linearity property on a nonlinear system or of limiting by the uncertainty principle, and a consequence of Fourier transform pairs in data analysis. This is the first HHT book containing papers covering a wide variety of interests. The chapters are divided into mathematical aspects and applications, with the applications further grouped into geophysics, structural safety and visualization.