New Releases by David Bull

Hidden just behind our world, supernatural beings fight for supremacy. The Sundar and Diagren have quietly been at war for Millenia, each attempting to silence the other for good, unbeknownst to the humans of earth.Ziya, Ofelia, Elana and Raphael have been named as prime candidates for the Sundarian Royal Guard, a military division tasked with the protection of the Sundarian people. But, the path to hold the honored title is not an easy one. Their training begins with the Regulatory Agency, the department charged with keeping the world of the Sundar and Diagren hidden from the Human population.Under the supervision of an old and Regulator, Thomas Dareen, who heads the North American Division in Atlanta and his austere lieutenant, Adalyn Rose, the team must uncover the truth behind an attack on a Sundarian Noble and a piece together a string of murders committed by the mysterious and elusive House of Noit.However, they soon realize there are darker and far more sinister forces at work behind the House of Noit.

Professional photos of ospreys and their young taken in the wild at Richmond, California at Winehaven.

Intelligent Image and Video Compression: Communicating Pictures, Second Edition explains the requirements, analysis, design and application of a modern video coding system. It draws on the authors'' extensive academic and professional experience in this field to deliver a text that is algorithmically rigorous yet accessible, relevant to modern standards and practical. It builds on a thorough grounding in mathematical foundations and visual perception to demonstrate how modern image and video compression methods can be designed to meet the rate-quality performance levels demanded by today''s applications and users, in the context of prevailing network constraints. "David Bull and Fan Zhang have written a timely and accessible book on the topic of image and video compression. Compression of visual signals is one of the great technological achievements of modern times, and has made possible the great successes of streaming and social media and digital cinema. Their book, Intelligent Image and Video Compression covers all the salient topics ranging over visual perception, information theory, bandpass transform theory, motion estimation and prediction, lossy and lossless compression, and of course the compression standards from MPEG (ranging from H.261 through the most modern H.266, or VVC) and the open standards VP9 and AV-1. The book is replete with clear explanations and figures, including color where appropriate, making it quite accessible and valuable to the advanced student as well as the expert practitioner. The book offers an excellent glossary and as a bonus, a set of tutorial problems. Highly recommended! --Al Bovik - An approach that combines algorithmic rigor with practical implementation using numerous worked examples - Explains how video compression methods exploit statistical redundancies, natural correlations, and knowledge of human perception to improve performance - Uses contemporary video coding standards (AVC, HEVC and VVC) as a vehicle for explaining block-based compression - Provides broad coverage of important topics such as visual quality assessment and video streaming

Exhibition catalogue devoted to the work of David Ferguson, which includes two essays concerning his life and illustrations of his work.

The book details the history and restoration of the Bard College Bell Tower. A permanent light installation designed by David Bull was a major part of the project. This undertaking was David Bull''s Senior Project in 2016.

The book details the history and restoration of the Bard College Bell Tower. A permanent light installation designed by David Bull was a major part of the project. This undertaking was David Bull''s Senior Project in 2016.

Communicating Pictures starts with a unique historical perspective of the role of images in communications and then builds on this to explain the applications and requirements of a modern video coding system. It draws on the author''s extensive academic and professional experience of signal processing and video coding to deliver a text that is algorithmically rigorous, yet accessible, relevant to modern standards, and practical. It offers a thorough grounding in visual perception, and demonstrates how modern image and video compression methods can be designed in order to meet the rate-quality performance levels demanded by today''s applications, networks and users.With this book you will learn: - Practical issues when implementing a codec, such as picture boundary extension and complexity reduction, with particular emphasis on efficient algorithms for transforms, motion estimators and error resilience - Conflicts between conventional video compression, based on variable length coding and spatiotemporal prediction, and the requirements for error resilient transmission - How to assess the quality of coded images and video content, both through subjective trials and by using perceptually optimised objective metrics - Features, operation and performance of the state-of-the-art High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard - Covers the basics of video communications and includes a strong grounding in how we perceive images and video, and how we can exploit redundancy to reduce bitrate and improve rate distortion performance - Gives deep insight into the pitfalls associated with the transmission of real-time video over networks (wireless and fixed) - Uses the state-of- the-art video coding standard (H.264/AVC) as a basis for algorithm development in the context of block based compression - Insight into future video coding standards such as the new ISO/ITU High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) initiative, which extends and generalizes the H.264/AVC approach

Welcome to my third book. This is the complete collection of the dark and thought provoking books Rise of the Psychotic and Fall of the Psychotic along with extra added rewrites.

Welcome to my second book Fall of the Psychotic. This book is a progression in my writing, a more descriptive dark poetry with some real life story poemsslong with poetry on depression, paranoia, my deep thoughts, fanatsy and more. Please enjoy your read and visit my website www.darkersideofpoetrry.co.uk

In order for wireless devices to function, the signals must be coded in standard ways so that the sender and the receiver can communicate. This area of video source coding is one of the key challenges in the worldwide push to deliver full video communications over wireless devices. Video Coding for Mobile Communications reviews current progress in this field and looks at how to solve some of the most important technology issues in the months and years ahead. The vision of being able to communicate from anywhere, at any time, and with any type of information is on its way to becoming reality. This natural convergence of mobile communications and multimedia is a field that is expected to achieve unprecedented growth and commercial success. Current wireless communication devices support a number of basic multimedia services (voice, messages, basic internet access), but have coding problems that need to be solved before "real-time" mobile video communication can be achieved. - Addresses the emerging field of mobile multimedia communications

The ultimate A-Z guide to health and emotional concerns for girls and young women.

Examines various aspects of teenage sexuality, including anatomy, sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy, relationships, homosexuality, and sexual intercourse. Includes a case study of a teenage couple deciding whether or not to have sex.