Four teenagers and a feral cat navigate life in Gorbachev’s USSR, in this tragicomedy set against a backdrop of civilizations in decline. The Girl in the Water has launched the award-winning series Next Year’s Snow, a multigenerational saga about innocence, survival, oppression, and choice at the flashpoints of a madly fractured world.At the centre of this debut is Nadia, a Soviet girl who witnesses her friend’s near-drowning on a remote northern beach. Nadia is a...

New Year 1988/1989: A theatre student, a taxi driver, a partisan, and a crook join a detective's family in Kiev for an ill-fated reunion. They and the Soviet nation face a violent reckoning as old secrets and fugitive hopes emerge.Winner of the 2026 Independent Press Award for Literary Fiction and for World LiteratureWinner of the Best of Novel prize in the 2025 Sunspot Literary Journal Solar Flare ContestSequel to The Girl ...

Create four mobile apps and explore the world through photography and computer visionKey Features\[\*\] Efficiently harness iOS and OpenCV to capture and process high-quality images at high speed\[\*\] Develop photographic apps and augmented reality apps quickly and easily\[\*\] Detect, recognize, and morph faces and objectsBook DescriptioniOS Application Development with OpenCV 3 enables you to turn your smartphone camera in...

About This BookBuild OpenCV apps for the desktop, the Raspberry Pi, Android, and the Unity game engineLearn real-time techniques that can be used to classify images, detecting and recognizing any person or animal, and studying motion and distance with superhuman precisionDesign hands-free interfaces that are practical in home automation, in cars, and in discrete surveillanceWho This Book Is ForThis book is for programmers who wan...

For Java developers OpenCV is a fantastic opportunity to benefit from the popularity of image related mobile apps on Android. This book teaches you all you need to know about computer vision with practical projects.Key FeaturesSet up OpenCV and an Android development environment on Windows, Mac, or LinuxCapture and display real-time videos and still imagesManipulate image data using OpenCV and Apache Commons MathTrack objects and rende...

Updated for OpenCV 4 and Python 3, this book covers the latest on depth cameras, 3D tracking, augmented reality, and deep neural networks, helping you solve real-world computer vision problems with practical codeKey FeaturesBuild powerful computer vision applications in concise code with OpenCV 4 and Python 3Learn the fundamental concepts of image processing, object classification, and 2D and 3D trackingTrain, use, and understand machine learni...

Get savvy with OpenCV and actualize cool computer vision applicationsAbout This BookUse OpenCV's Python bindings to capture video, manipulate images, and track objectsLearn about the different functions of OpenCV and their actual implementations.Develop a series of intermediate to advanced projects using OpenCV and PythonWho This Book Is ForThis learning path is for someone who has a working knowledge of ...

Unleash the power of computer vision with Python using OpenCV Key FeaturesBook DescriptionOpenCV 3 is a state-of-the-art computer vision library that allows a great variety of image and video processing operations. Some of the more spectacular and futuristic features such as face recognition or object tracking are easily achievable with OpenCV 3. Learning the basic concepts behind computer vision algorithms, models, and OpenCV's API will enable the dev...

This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more prominent other-regarding virtues like justice and generosity, humanity and later compassion become the true north of the modern moral compass. Contributors to this volume consider various aspects of thi...

Four teenagers and a feral cat navigate life in Gorbachev’s USSR, in this tragicomedy set against a backdrop of civilizations in decline. The Girl in the Water has launched the award-winning series Next Year’s Snow, a multigenerational saga about innocence, survival, oppression, and choice at the flashpoints of a madly fractured world.At the centre of this debut is Nadia, a Soviet girl who witnesses her friend’s near-drowning on a remote northern beach. Nadia is a...

Turn futuristic ideas about computer vision and machine learning into demonstrations that are both functional and entertainingKey FeaturesBuild OpenCV 4 apps with Python 2 and 3 on desktops and Raspberry Pi, Java on Android, and C\# in UnityDetect, classify, recognize, and measure real-world objects in real-timeWork with images from diverse sources, including the web, research datasets, and various camerasBook DescriptionOpen...

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionWith a growing interest in learning to program, game development is an appealing topic for getting started with coding. From geometry to basic Artificial Intelligence algorithms, there are plenty of concepts that can be applied in almost every game. Python is a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language. It provides constructs intended to enable clear programs on both a small and large scale. It is the thir...