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Unleash the power of the Computer Vision algorithms in JavaScript to develop vision-enabled web content

About This Book

* Explore the exciting world of image processing, and face and gesture recognition, and implement them in your website
* Develop wonderful web projects to implement Computer Vision algorithms in an effective way
* A fast-paced guide to help you deal with real-world Computer Vision applications using JavaScript libraries

Who This Book Is For

If you have an interest in Computer Vision or wish to apply Computer Vision algorithms such as face, custom object, and gesture recognition for an online application, then this book is ideal for you. Prior understanding of the JavaScript language and core mathematical concepts is recommended.

What You Will Learn

* Apply complex Computer Vision algorithms in your applications using JavaScript
* Put together different JavaScript libraries to discover objects in photos
* Get to grips with developing simple computer vision applications on your own
* Understand when and why you should use different computer vision methods
* Apply various image filters to images and videos
* Recognize and track many different objects, including face and face particles using powerful face recognition algorithms
* Explore ways to control your browser without touching the mouse or keyboard

In Detail

JavaScript is a dynamic and prototype-based programming language supported by every browser today. JavaScript libraries boast outstanding functionalities that enable you to furnish your own Computer Vision projects, making it easier to develop JavaScriptbased applications, especially for web-centric technologies. It makes the implementation of Computer Vision algorithms easier as it supports scheme-based functional programming.
This book will give you an insight into controlling your applications with gestures and head motion and readying them for the web. Packed with real-world tasks, it begins with a walkthrough of the basic concepts of Computer Vision that the JavaScript world offers us, and you'll implement various powerful algorithms in your own online application. Then, we move on to a comprehensive analysis of JavaScript functions and their applications. Furthermore, the book will show you how to implement filters and image segmentation, and use tracking.js and jsfeat libraries to convert your browser into Photoshop. Subjects such as object and custom detection, feature extraction, and object matching are covered to help you find an object in a photo. You will see how a complex object such as a face can be recognized by a browser as you move toward the end of the book. Finally, you will focus on algorithms to create a human interface.
By the end of this book, you will be familiarized with the application of complex Computer Vision algorithms to develop your own applications, without spending much time learning sophisticated theory.

Style and approach

This book is an easy-to-follow project-based guide that throws you directly into the excitement of the Computer Vision theme. A more in less approach is followed by important concepts explained in a to-the-point, easy-to-understand manner.

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Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring

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A hands-on guide to building an enterprise-grade, scalable RESTful web service using the Spring Framework

About This Book

* Follow best practices and explore techniques such as clustering and caching to achieve a scalable web service
* Leverage the Spring Framework to quickly implement RESTful endpoints
* Learn to implement a client library for a RESTful web service using the Spring Framework

Who This Book Is For

This book is intended for those who want to learn to build RESTful web services with the Spring Framework. To make best use of the code samples included in the book, you should have a basic knowledge of the Java language. Previous experience with the Spring Framework would also help you get up and running quickly.

What You Will Learn

* Deep dive into the principles behind REST
* Expose CRUD operations through RESTful endpoints with the Spring Framework
* Devise response formats and error handling strategies, offering a consistent and flexible structure to simplify integration for service consumers
* Follow the best approaches for dealing with a service's evolution while maintaining backward compatibility
* Understand techniques to secure web services
* Comply with the best ways to test RESTful web services, including tips for load testing
* Optimise and scale web services using techniques such as caching and clustering

In Detail

REST is an architectural style that tackles the challenges of building scalable web services. In today's connected world, APIs have taken a central role on the web. APIs provide the fabric through which systems interact, and REST has become synonymous with APIs.
The depth, breadth, and ease of use of Spring makes it one of the most attractive frameworks in the Java ecosystem. Marrying the two technologies is therefore a very natural choice.
This book takes you through the design of RESTful web services and leverages the Spring Framework to implement these services. Starting from the basics of the philosophy behind REST, you'll go through the steps of designing and implementing an enterprise-grade RESTful web service. Taking a practical approach, each chapter provides code samples that you can apply to your own circumstances.
This book goes beyond the use of Spring and explores approaches to tackle resilience, security, and scalability concerns. You'll learn techniques to deal with security in Spring and discover how to implement unit and integration test strategies.
Finally, the book ends by walking you through building a Java client for your RESTful web service, along with some scaling techniques for it.

Style and approach

This book is a step-by-step, hands-on guide to designing and building RESTful web services. The book follows the natural cycle of developing these services and includes multiple code samples to help you.

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Evolution is the cause of everything in the universe, or so we are taught. But is this based in scientific truth? Could much of what we have learned at school, and what the media and evolutionists suggest about the origins of life and the universe, be contrary to the real scientific facts?

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Connects the metaphor of home that runs through the stories of our faith with the deep desire to belong and to feel wanted.

The author writes, One of the characters in Robert Frosts Death of a Hired Man says, Home is that place where, when you go there, they have to let you in. I have found that place in my marriage, around our dining room table for Thursday Night Dinners, with friends who have helped me make a mosaic out of the shards of my fractured past. Home, for me, means to belong, to feel wanted.

As a writer, chef, and minister, Brasher-Cunningham has spoken to churches, taught cooking classes, hosted dinners, and found as many ways as possible to get people together to talk about food and faith. That discussion turns often to what it means to live life together, which is an entry point to talk about what it means to feel at home together.

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I pray in poems explores the intersection of great works of poetry and Christian faith, offering meditations on what these works illustrate about Christian living. Readers will encounter authors as diverse as William Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Rumi, Mary Oliver, and Anna Kamienska. Each poem is followed by an analytical reflection that explores the work and places it within the context of one or more Biblical passages. These meditations will assist the reader in understanding and appreciating the poetry, and will also offer insightful, perhaps even inspiring, thoughts on what it means to live a life in faith.

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The definitive collection from one of thethe leading voices on LGBTQ issues in the Episcopal Church.<br>Letters from Samaria gathers together much of Louie (Crew) Clays best and most influential prose and poetry, written from 1974 until the present day, including an essay composed especially for the volume. Much of the material has not appeared since its original publication in newsletters and other ephemeral sources. It is crisply written, and often surprising for its bravery, matter-of-fact self-disclosure, insight, and love. Louie played a pivotal role in transforming The Episcopal Church  and, indeed, Christianity  over the past 40 years. This collection provides a window into Louie Clays unlikely and at times shocking ministry throughout the years as history was unfolding.

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Louie Clay, Phyllis Tickle, Max Niedzwiecki

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Northern Kentucky University's evolution from an educational branch of the University of Kentucky into a major university in its own right is a tale of promise and humble beginnings. Could the handful of students and instructors attending classes in a Covington bus station in 1946 have ever imagined what the next six and a half decades would bring? Today, NKU serves more than 15,000 students, employs more than 2,000 faculty and staff, and is the fastest growing institution of higher learning in the state.Northern Kentucky University: A Panoramic History showcases the evolution of NKU, revealing the history, events, and individuals involved in the transformation. Offering side-by-side comparisons of past milestones and recent advancements, the book both shows and tells the story of the university and its people.Featuring engaging historical photographs alongside full-color panoramic images by photographer Thomas R. Schiff, Northern Kentucky University illustrates the university's rapid evolution. Accompanying the images are accounts from professors and alumni, including Professor Emeritus James C. Claypool, the first full-time employee of the college. This lavishly illustrated volume is an inviting window into the storied past and the future of an institution ready to ignite the potential of Kentucky's brightest stars.

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In Regters oor gister haal die verlede vir Mignon Preller in  n verlede waaraan sy heeltemal onskuldig is . . . 
Mignon is n gelukkige, sorgvrye student uit n stabiele ouerhuis. Wanneer sy hoor dat haar beste vriendin n aangenome kind is, ontstel dit haar diep  te diep, want so sluip n ou verskrikking uit die verlede ongevraag die vreedsame tuiste binne wat Fred en Anita Preller vir Mignon en haar lieflingbroer, Steve, probeer skep het. 
Twintig jaar gelede het hulle n verkeerde besluit omtrent Mignon geneem, n fout wat nou duisend maal vergroot terugkom en twee jongmense in die ban van n verbode liefde hou. 
n Ontroerende verhaal van ontreddering, en uiteindelik van die helende krag van die liefde.

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Toe die pragtige Ilse Brink universiteit toe gaan, het sy nie die spreekwoordelike sterre in haar oe en die wereld aan haar voete nie. Sy besef dat sy hard sal moet werk  en boonop gou klaarkry  sodat sy kan help om vir haar behoeftige ouers op die plaas te sorg.   
En toe vat 'n nuwe idee by haar pos: as sy met 'n ryk man kan trou, 'n ryk man met baie geld, sodat sy en haar ouers nooit weer aan hulle armoede hoef te dink nie . . .   
Ilse is 'n gelukkige meisie, want sy loop vir Bruce Reyneke raak. Hier en daar hoor sy wel 'n storietjie oor Bruce, maar wat maak dit saak? Hy het mos baie geld en hy is beleef teenoor haar.   
Ilse se boesemvriend, Henk Retief, hou haar egter met 'n arendsoog dop, en hy weet: eendag sal Ilse se oe wel oopgaan. Maar dit was voordat sy ingewillig het dat die beroemde Tobias Meiring haar skilder. Tobias het ook geld, en boonop is hy aantreklik, sjarmant en die antwoord op enige mooi meisie se drome  al is hy oud genoeg om Ilse se vader te wees.   
Die liefde oorwin is 'n pakkende, eg-menslike verhaal wat end-uit boei.

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Louise Barnard is in die wolke wanneer haar vriend, die aantreklike, skatryk Eben Griesel vir haar die woonstel wat hy vir hulle uitgesoek het gaan wys.
Mevrou Louise Griesel, mymer sy, drome wasig in haar oe terwyl sy opkyk na Eben wat langs haar in die hysbak staan. Sy glimlag met hom. Hy het reeds hulle woonstel gekies, hoewel hulle nog nie op 'n troudatum besluit het nie. Maar so het sy Eben die afgelope maande leer ken. Hy dink aan die praktiese dinge en 'n woonplek sal beslis vir hom van groter belang wees as al die beplanning en gepraat en bespiegelinge oor 'n geskikte troudatum en hoe groot die huweliksonthaal gaan wees.
Net 'n paar minute later, in dieselfde woonstel waaroor Louise so baie drome gedroom het, spat haar hele wereld erger aan skerwe. Eben het beslis nie aan die beplanning of 'n geskikte datum vir hulle huwelik gedink nie. Tewens, niks was verder uit sy gedagtes verwyder as juis n huwelik met Louise nie. Sy idee was suiwer dat hy en sy moes saambly  soos sy antwoord op haar weersin dan ook getuig  Genugtig, Louise, trou is so uit die mode soos Kersvader en Kerskabouters! het hy gesmaal terwyl sy so vinnig moontlik van hom af probeer wegvlug het.
Met haar vertroue in mans geheel en al vernietig, besluit Louise om uit Johannesburg pad te gee. Sy moet wegkom van Eben af . . . van die smet wat sy idees in haar binneste gelos het, en die huis wat haar moeder kort gelede van haar tant Ragie de la Rey op Rheedershoop geerf het, bied aan haar n salige heenkome.
Maar Louise het nie rekening gehou met die ander De la Reys van Rheedershoop nie. Met Lafras, die breedgekouerde padbou-ingenieur met die gesig wat lyk of dit uit graniet gebeitel is nie. Ook nie met Theresa Hattingh, die skatryk, suksesvolle, talentvolle, aantreklike vrou, soos iemand haar aan Louise beskryf het, wat Lafras de la Rey vir haarself toegeeien het, of met Belinda, die agtienjarige prikkelpop op wie Lafras ooglopend op sy beurt verlief is nie. Wanneer, o wanneer, so het Louise se hart telkens geweeklaag, sou die lokstem van die liefde haar weer roep. Wanneer . . .?

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As die lied verstil is die verhaal van Chrissie Erasmus van Dennedal. Almal op die dorpie ken haar as die goeie kind wat na haar ouma omsien, wat Sondagskool hou en n staatmaker is by die basaartafel. Ouma droom al van n huwelik tussen Chrissie en die gawe Jan Barendse. Maar oornag is die skindertonge behoorlik los, want Chrissie van Dennedal word Christine van Johannesburg.
Ouma se afskeidswoorde is dat haar Chrissie-kind nie die lewenswaardes wat sy in die huisie in Loeriestraat geleer het daar in die vreemde moet vergeet nie. En dat sy moet onthou dat die kraakhekkie in Loeriestraat altyd vir haar sal oopstaan.
Intuisie vertel Ouma dat daar n dag sal aanbreek dat Chrissie sal wil terugvlug na die rustige valley van Dennedal wanneer die hoe hoogtes van die vermaaklikheidswereld vir haar te veel word . . .

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In Die despoot van Duiwelskloof ontvlug Marista Minnaar haar ongelukkige verlede as mannekyn deur vir die broers Michael en Johan de Beer te gaan huishou. Michael is n moeilike man, maar sy broer, vasgekluister aan n rolstoel, word Marista se bondgenoot en vertroueling.

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Hundreds of cats are missing! Fear notPenelope Ann Pickersgill and her hippie grandma are on the case.
While her friends go to cool camps, twelve-year-old Penelope has to spend the summer with Grandma Bev, who is convinced that cat-eating aliens are beaming the towns furry friends aboard their mother ship at night. Lights in the sky point to UFOs, but Penelope is sure theres a more logical explanation. With a little help from Sherlock Holmes, she and Grandma Bev set out to find the cats. Will they be able to solve the mystery before all the cats in Thornhill disappear?

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This invaluable book provides a comprehensive treatment of design and applications of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA). SOA is an important component for optical communication systems. It has applications as in-line amplifiers and as functional devices in evolving optical networks. The functional applications of SOAs were first studied in the early 1990's, since then the diversity and scope of such applications have been steadily growing. This is the second edition of a book on Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers first published in 2006 by the same authors. Several chapters and sections representing new developments in the chapters of the first edition have been added. The new chapters cover quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers (QD-SOA), reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers (RSOA) for passive optical network applications, two-photon absorption in amplifiers, and, applications of SOA as broadband sources. They represent advances in research, technology and commercial trends in the area of semiconductor optical amplifiers.Semiconductor Optical Amplifier is self-contained and unified in presentation. It can be used as an advanced text by graduate students and by practicing engineers. It is also suitable for non-experts who wish to have an overview of optical amplifiers. The treatments in the book are detailed enough to capture the interest of the curious reader and complete enough to provide the necessary background to explore the subject further.

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CLASS AND CLASS CONFLICT IN POST-SOCIALIST CHINA

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Class and Class Conflict in Post-Socialist China traces the origins and the profound changes of the patterns of class conflict in post-socialist China since 1978.The first of its kind in the field of China Studies that offers comprehensive overviews and traces the historical evolutions of different patterns of class conflict (among workers, peasants, capitalists, and the middle class) in post-socialist China, the book provides comprehensive overviews of different patterns of class conflict. It uses a state-centered approach to study class conflict, i.e., study how the communist party-state restructures the patterns of class conflict in Chinese society, and brings in a historical dimension by tracing the origins and developments of class conflict in socialist and post-socialist China.

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Asian Students on the West Coast, 1900-1968

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Histories of civil rights movements in America generally place little or no emphasis on the activism of Asian Americans. Yet, as this fascinating new study reveals, there is a long and distinctive legacy of civil rights activism among foreign and American-born Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino students, who formed crucial alliances based on their shared religious affiliations and experiences of discrimination.     Stephanie Hinnershitz tells the story of the Asian American campus organizations that flourished on the West Coast from the 1900s through the 1960s. Using their faith to point out the hypocrisy of fellow American Protestants who supported segregation and discriminatory practices, the student activists in these groups also performed vital outreach to communities outside the university, from Californian farms to  Alaskan canneries. Highlighting the unique multiethnic composition of these groups, Race, Religion, and Civil Rights explores how the students' interethnic activism weathered a variety of challenges, from the outbreak of war between Japan and China to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.   Drawing from a variety of archival sources to bring forth the authentic, passionate voices of the students, Race, Religion, and Civil Rights is a testament to the powerful ways they served to shape the social, political, and cultural direction of civil rights movements throughout the West Coast. 

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In this State Standards-aligned Literature KitTM, we divide the novel by chapters or sections and feature reading comprehension and vocabulary questions. In every chapter, we include Before You Read and After You Read questions. The Before You Read activities prepare students for reading by setting a purpose for reading. They stimulate background knowledge and experience, and guide students to make connections between what they know and what they will learn. The After You Read activities check students' comprehension and extend their learning. Students are asked to give thoughtful consideration of the text through creative and evaluative short-answer questions and journal prompts. Also included are writing tasks, graphic organizers, comprehension quiz, test prep, word search, and crossword to further develop students' critical thinking and writing skills, and analysis of the text. About the Novel: The Hunger Games is a story about a dystopian society and a young girl's sacrifice to keep her family safe. Told from the perspective of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, the story takes place in a post-apocalyptic nation called Panem. The nation consists of a rich Capitol and 12 surrounding poor districts. Every year, an event known as The Hunger Games is held. One boy and one girl from each district is selected by lottery to compete in the battle to the death, with only one person standing. The story begins in District 12, where the lottery chooses Primrose to compete. In an effort to protect her sister, Katniss volunteers, taking her place. The story then follows Katniss as she journeys to the Capitol and enters the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is an emotional story of survival, selection, and overcoming obstacles. All of our content is aligned to your State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

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In this State Standards-aligned Literature KitTM, we divide the novel by chapters or sections and feature reading comprehension and vocabulary questions. In every chapter, we include Before You Read and After You Read questions. The Before You Read activities prepare students for reading by setting a purpose for reading. They stimulate background knowledge and experience, and guide students to make connections between what they know and what they will learn. The After You Read activities check students' comprehension and extend their learning. Students are asked to give thoughtful consideration of the text through creative and evaluative short-answer questions and journal prompts. Also included are writing tasks, graphic organizers, comprehension quiz, test prep, word search, and crossword to further develop students' critical thinking and writing skills, and analysis of the text. About the Novel: The Phantom Tollbooth is a story of imagination and wonder. Milo is a very bored little boy. One day, he receives a make-believe tollbooth. When he goes through it, he is sent to a magical world. There, he meets Tock the watchdog. The pair make their way to Dictionopolis, one of the country's two capitals. Here they meet King Azaz, who sends them on a journey to Digitopolis, where the Mathemagician is holding the two princessesRhyme and Reasonin the Castle in the Air. On their journey, Milo and Tock meet many different people and places, all with their own adventures. The Phantom Tollbooth is a fun story about one boy's strong imagination and sense of adventure. All of our content is aligned to your State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (John Boyne)

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In this State Standards-aligned Literature KitTM, we divide the novel by chapters or sections and feature reading comprehension and vocabulary questions. In every chapter, we include Before You Read and After You Read questions. The Before You Read activities prepare students for reading by setting a purpose for reading. They stimulate background knowledge and experience, and guide students to make connections between what they know and what they will learn. The After You Read activities check students' comprehension and extend their learning. Students are asked to give thoughtful consideration of the text through creative and evaluative short-answer questions and journal prompts. Also included are writing tasks, graphic organizers, comprehension quiz, test prep, word search, and crossword to further develop students' critical thinking and writing skills, and analysis of the text. About the Novel: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a classic story told from the point of view of a young German boy as he befriends a Jewish boy at a concentration camp. Nine-year-old Bruno lives with his family at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. They move there when Bruno's father is prompted to Commandant. While at his new home, Bruno meets and befriends a young boy named Shmuel who lives on the other size of the wire fence that surrounds the camp. One day, Bruno's mother convinces his father to let the family move back to Berlin. Before they leave, Bruno disguises himself and sneaks into the camp to help his friend find his missing father. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a powerful story about childhood innocence, friendship and suffering. All of our content is aligned to your State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

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In this State Standards-aligned Literature KitTM, we divide the novel by chapters or sections and feature reading comprehension and vocabulary questions. In every chapter, we include Before You Read and After You Read questions. The Before You Read activities prepare students for reading by setting a purpose for reading. They stimulate background knowledge and experience, and guide students to make connections between what they know and what they will learn. The After You Read activities check students' comprehension and extend their learning. Students are asked to give thoughtful consideration of the text through creative and evaluative short-answer questions and journal prompts. Also included are writing tasks, graphic organizers, comprehension quiz, test prep, word search, and crossword to further develop students' critical thinking and writing skills, and analysis of the text. About the Novel: The Westing Game is a Newbery Medal winning story about a group of people playing the game of who killed the millionaire. Samuel W. Westing, owner of Westing Paper Products, has died. Sixteen heirs are invited to live in the Sunset Towers apartment building. These heirs come together to read the will of the late self-made millionaire. The will challenges them to solve  the murder of Sam Westing by splitting up into eight pairs. Each pair is given a set of clues and $10,000 dollars to play the game. The winner will inherit the $200,000,000 fortune and unravel the secret behind the old man's death. The Westing Game is an enticing story about murder, intrigue and secrets. All of our content is aligned to your State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.