1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463426603321

Autore

Sherborne Michael

Titolo

H.G. Wells : another kind of life / / Michael Sherborne ; foreword by Christopher Priest

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Peter Owen, , 2012

ISBN

0-7206-1348-5

Edizione

[Paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (432 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PriestChristopher

Disciplina

823/.912

B

Soggetti

Novelists, English - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-388) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Foreword by Christopher Priest; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1: Family and Childhood, 1851-1880; 2: Five False Starts, 1880-1884; 3: Student, 1884-1887; 4: 'In the Wilderness', 1887-1890; 5: An Attempt at Conformity, 1890-1893; 6: Author, 1893-1895; 7: The Scientific Romances, 1895-1899; 8: A New Prospectus, 1899-1901; 9: Annexing the Future, 1902-1905; 10: Fabianism and Free Love, 1905-1909; 11: Novelist, 1909-1911; 12: Journalist, 1911-1916; 13: Prophet, 1916-1919; 14: Historian, 1919-1922

15: Godfather, 1922-192616: Life after Jane, 1927-1930; 17: An Inflated Persona, 1930-1934; 18: The Man Who Continued to Work Miracles, 1935-1939; 19: Declarations, 1939-1943; 20: Exasperations, 1943-1946; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Copyright; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

When H.G. Wells left school in 1880 at thirteen he looked destined for obscurity. Defying expectations, he became one of the most famous writers in the world, remaining active into the era of the atomic bomb, which he predicted by thirty years. He created classic science-fiction tales such as The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds, reinvented the Dickensian novel in Kipps and The History of Mr Polly, pioneered postmodernism in experimental fiction and harangued his contemporaries in polemics which included two bestselling histories



of the world. He brought equal energy t

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910145261603321

Autore

Cyganek Bogusław

Titolo

An introduction to 3D computer vision techniques and algorithms [[electronic resource] /] / Bogusław Cyganek, J. Paul Siebert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, U.K., : John Wiley & Sons, 2009

ISBN

1-119-96447-4

1-282-03422-7

9786612034220

0-470-69972-8

0-470-71444-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (514 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SiebertJ. Paul

Disciplina

006.3/7

006.37

Soggetti

Computer vision

Three-dimensional imaging

Computer algorithms

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-474) and index.

Nota di contenuto

AN INTRODUCTION TO 3D COMPUTER VISION TECHNIQUES AND ALGORITHMS; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notation and Abbreviations; Part I; 1 Introduction; 2 Brief History of Research on Vision; Part II; 3 2D and 3D Vision Formation; 4 Low-level Image Processing for Image Matching; 5 Scale-space Vision; 6 Image Matching Algorithms; 7 Space Reconstruction and Multiview Integration; 8 Case Examples; Part III; 9 Basics of the Projective Geometry; 10 Basics of Tensor Calculus for Image Processing; 11 Distortions and Noise in Images; 12 Image Warping Procedures

13 Programming Techniques for Image Processing and Computer Vision14 Image Processing Library; References; Index; Colorplate

Sommario/riassunto

Computer vision encompasses the construction of integrated vision systems and the application of vision to problems of real-world



importance. The process of creating 3D models is still rather difficult, requiring mechanical measurement of the camera positions or manual alignment of partial 3D views of a scene. However using algorithms, it is possible to take a collection of stereo-pair images of a scene and then automatically produce a photo-realistic, geometrically accurate digital 3D model.  This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the methods, theories and algorithms of 3D com