Any device or system with imaging functionality requires a digital video processing solution as part of its embedded system design. Engineers need a practical guide to technology basics and design fundamentals that enables them to deliver the video component of complex projects. This book introduces core video processing concepts and standards, and delivers practical how-to guidance for engineers embarking on digital video processing designs using FPGAs. It covers the basic topics of video processing in a pictorial, intuitive manner with minimal use of mathematics. Key outcomes and benefits of this book for users include: understanding the concepts and challenges of modern video systems; architect video systems at a system level; reference design examples to implement your own high definition video processing chain; understand implementation trade-offs in video system designs.

Digital Video Processing for Engineers: A Foundation for Embedded Systems Design

Computers & Technology

Parker, Michael

Dhanani, Suhel

Computer Science

Newnes

Digital Signal Processing 101: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started provides a basic tutorial on digital signal processing (DSP). Beginning with discussions of numerical representation and complex numbers and exponentials, it goes on to explain difficult concepts such as sampling, aliasing, imaginary numbers, and frequency response. It does so using easy-to-understand examples with minimum mathematics. In addition, there is an overview of the DSP functions and implementation used in several DSP-intensive fields or applications, from error correction to CDMA mobile communication to airborne radar systems. This book has been updated to include the latest developments in Digital Signal Processing, and has eight new chapters on: <ul>
<li>Automotive Radar Signal Processing </li>
<li>Space-Time Adaptive Processing Radar</li>
<li>Field Orientated Motor Control </li>
<li>Matrix Inversion algorithms </li>
<li>GPUs for computing </li>
<li>Machine Learning</li>
<li>Entropy and Predictive Coding</li>
<li>Video compression </li> </ul>

Digital Signal Processing 101: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started

Unable to face himself or the horrific deeds of his recent past, Edwin Keane withdraws from life by drugging himself, with the help of his mother and the town pharmacist, into a morphine haze. It's not until he meets a beguiling teenager from the wrong side of the tracks that he begins to envision a new life.

Hello Down There: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Penguin Group USA

The author of Hello Down There presents a half-dozen short fictions based in the American South, investigating the themes of family, isolation, and redemption.

The Geographical Cure: Novellas and Stories

United States

Shadow of the Wolf (A Star book)

Genre Fiction

Star

The Boy From Berlin

Mass Market Paperback - 2013 by Michael Parker Published by World Wide Press

Worldwide

Revisiting Trent, North Carolina -- the town so poignantly rendered in his acclaimed novel, Hello Down There -- Michael Parker picks up the story of Reka Speight, a woman determined to discover a wider world than the rural backwater of her youth.
Recently released from prison for a crime she did not commit, Reka returns home with one goal: to escape Trent for someplace unencumbered by history. But leaving Trent also takes her away from the one person she cares about, her younger brother Randall. As Reka heads west in search of a new life, she is forced to make a choice between the life she has always wanted and the brother she cannot leave behind.

Towns Without Rivers

Contemporary

Harper-perennial

In his stirring second novel, Michael Parker paints a vivid portrait of a young woman determined to escape her past. Revisiting Trent -- the Southern town so poignantly rendered in his acclaimed first novel, Hello Down There -- Parker turns his attention to Reka Speight, a character whose strength of spirit brings her as passionately to life as any female character in contemporary literary fiction.
Reka Speight is determined to discover a wider world than the rural backwater that has an almost malevolent grip on her. Armed with nothing but her sharp instincts and a hard-won education she earned while behind bars, Reka lies her way into a job that takes her thousands of miles west.
But it also takes her away from the one person she cares about, her younger brother Randall. Their special bond has always set them apart from the rest of the Speight clan; Reka knows she can't be happy until Randall has escaped their family's legacy of poverty, narrow-mindedness, and alcoholism. Reka hasn't seen Randall since she was released from jail, and she must entrust her father with a letter explaining her departure -- and how Randall can find her -- in the hopes that he will soon follow.
So begins a journey that takes Reka from North Carolina to Montana to Seattle; from steamy Trent to climates colder than she's ever imagined; from prison bars to the World's Fair; and from her dead lover's bedside into the arms of a man she can't forget, no matter how hard she tries. Through it all, Randall is always on her mind. Although returning to Trent means risking everything she has achieved to escape, Reka realizes she and her brother are bound together by a force stronger than will. What she can't know is that Randall's own wanderings have taken him into even darker territories, and that his quest to find the sister he has always emulated may prove more difficult than he expects...now that the only strength he has to rely on is his own.
In a striking tale of one iron-willed woman's determination to decide her own fate, Towns Without Rivers reveals the consequences of taking your life into your own hands and the astonishing resiliency of the human spirit. Probing one of the great conflicts of literature, Michael Parker's triumphant novel asks us whether the absence of love really must be the price of survival.

William Morrow

No matter what the speaking challenge is, this inspirational, cleverly illustrated book will help readers perform with passion, power and persuasion—at the top of their game. Whether chasing a job, planning a pitch, giving a speech at a wedding, presenting to one or one thousand people, readers ofIt's Not What You Say will discover how to: • Use the rule of three to win any audience over • Prepare so you can be yourself – but better • Embrace the unknown and conquer any fear Capturing a life time’s work in the art of persuasive communication, this powerful book reveals the principles, tools and tricks to help you become a courageous, memorable, stand-out speaker.

It's Not What You Say: How to Sell Your Message When It Matters Most

Business & Money

Business Culture

TarcherPerigee

John Winthrop (Routledge Historical Americans)

Puritan politician, lawyer, and lay theologian John Winthrop fled England  in 1630 when it looked like Charles I had successfully blocked all hopes of passing Puritan-inspired reforms in Parliament. Leading a migration, he came to New England in the hopes of creating an ideal Puritan community and eventually became the governor of Massachusetts. Winthrop is remembered for his role in the Puritan migration to the colonies and for delivering what is probably the most famous lay sermon in American history, "A Model of Christian Charity." In it he proclaimed that New England would be "a city upon a hill"--an example for future colonies. In John Winthrop: Founding the City upon a Hill, Michael Parker examines the political and religious history of this iconic  figure. In this short biography, bolstered by letters, sermons, and maps, John Winthrop introduces students to the colonial world, the Pequot Wars, and the history of American Exceptionalism.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Routledge

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Digital Video Processing for Engineers: A Foundation for Embedded Systems Design

Digital Signal Processing 101: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started

Hello Down There: A Novel

The Geographical Cure: Novellas and Stories

Shadow of the Wolf (A Star book)

The Boy From Berlin

Towns Without Rivers

Towns Without Rivers

It's Not What You Say: How to Sell Your Message When It Matters Most

John Winthrop (Routledge Historical Americans)