Advanced Image Processing and Video Intelligence Applications focuses on how artificial intelligence and machine learning are transforming visual data processing. The book highlights methods for extracting meaningful information from images and videos to support intelligent decision-making across diverse domains.It covers core concepts such as image enhancement, segmentation, feature extraction, and object detection, along with advanced topics including deep learning, computer visi...

Advanced Image Processing and Video Intelligence Applications focuses on how artificial intelligence and machine learning are transforming visual data processing. The book highlights methods for extracting meaningful information from images and videos to support intelligent decision-making across diverse domains.It covers core concepts such as image enhancement, segmentation, feature extraction, and object detection, along with advanced topics including deep learning, computer vision, and ...

This is the first book to examine challenges in the healthcare sector in the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries (Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain). These countries experienced remarkably swift transformations from small fishing and pearling communities at the beginning of the twentieth century to wealthy petro-states today. Their healthcare systems, however, are only now beginning to catch up.Rapid changes to the population and life...

Wisdom in Psychiatry is written for anyone who has been touched by emotional suffering-or distress- those who struggle themselves, those who love someone who does, and those who care for others professionally. Rather than reducing distress to labels or diagnoses, the book seeks to deepen understanding of the inner life behind symptoms. Its aim is to lessen fear, challenge misconception, and restore a more humane way of seeing emotional illness. Written for both clinicians and general reade...

Jikoni means 'kitchen' in Kiswahili, a word that perfectly captures Ravinder Bhogal's approach to food.Ravinder was born in Kenya to Indian parents; when she moved to London as a child, the cooking of her new home collided with a heritage that crossed continents. What materialised was a playful approach to the world's larder, and Ravinder's recipes do indeed have a rebellious soul. They are lawless concoctions that draw their influences fr...

Before the Birth of Hope and Despair: On Life, Death, and Heritage is a philosophical memoir by Ravinder Nath Bhalla, MD, a retired adult, adolescent, and child psychiatrist who practiced for forty years.The book moves in three movements. The First Witness documents what it looks like when systems designed to sustain life fail to address the lives inside them: a severely autistic son who arrived before the architecture of hope and despair; a ninety-seven-year-old woman who has aske...

For enterprises managing thousands or millions of connected devices, manual provisioning is no longer practical. Secure Device Onboarding bridges theory and practice by showing how organizations can adopt FDO to automate trust establishment from factory to field. Through real-world case studies from global industry leaders, readers will learn how secure onboarding improves scalability, lowers operational costs, and strengthens cyber resilience. This is an essential guide for anyone buildin...

What is best for my child?It is the question asked at the wrong moment — in parking lots, at the end of school meetings, half-joking and fully desperate. Ravinder Nath Bhalla, MD has been asked it hundreds of times over forty years of clinical practice. This book is his answer.The Abundance Life is a guide to every stage of human development, from birth to death. Not a manual. Not a checklist. A compass for the grey between normal and worrying, between enough and not enough — the territory...

"The Power of Wisdom" shows that our emotional, psychological, mental and spiritual health is influenced by how comfortable we are navigating unknown areas of our lives. It takes a fresh look at the importance of wisdom in personal development, relationships, leadership, and success.This book serves as a mentor to help you walk in wisdom on your journey to a healthy, meaningful and transformed life. This book will assist you in navigating life's problems, making better decisions, a...

Harper's Bazaar BEST cookbook to buy nowShortlisted for Fortnum & Mason Cookery Writer of the Year - Ravinder Bhogal for work in FT Weekend Magazine**---------------Vegetables are the soul of the kitchen.**Comfort and Joy is a fresh take on vegetarian and vegan cooking; not geared towards health or denial but indulging all the senses with a decadent global larder.This is a cookbook of great bounty, p...

Why do the most powerful institutions repeatedly make decisions that produceless security, not more? Why do we build systems that cost more and work worsethan alternatives we know about? Why does extraordinary intelligence so oftenserve self-defeating cycles?For forty years, psychiatrist Ravinder Bhalla has watched individuals andinstitutions repeat patterns that harm them despite overwhelming evidence ofbetter alternatives. In ABUNDANCE, he revea...

The blue-eyed boy of Indian publishing, Abhimanyu Razdan is known for his bestselling romances, which move his readers to tears. PaperInk, an up-and-coming publishing house, is looking for an A-list author who will take them to the next level.So, when Abhimanyu's contract with his current publishers comes to an end, PaperInk decides to swoop in. But Abhimanyu isn't quite like the emotional and sensitive characters in the novels he writes. Callous, egoistic and drunk on success, he ...