Digital multimedia technologies, which provide powerful means to acquire and incorporate knowledge from various sources for a broad range of applications, have a strong impact on the daily life, and have changed our way of learning, thinking and living. The rapid increase of multimedia technology over the last decade has brought about fundamental changes to computing, entertainment, and education and it has presented our computerized society with opportunities and challenges that in many cases are unprecedented. As the use of digital multimedia increases, effective data storage and...

Nonlinear Digital Filtering with Python: An Introduction discusses important structural filter classes including the median filter and a number of its extensions (e.g., weighted and recursive median filters), and Volterra filters based on polynomial nonlinearities. Adopting both structural and behavioral approaches in characterizing and designing nonlinear digital filters, this book:

• Begins with an expedient introduction to programming in the free, open-source computing environment of Python
• Uses results from algebra and the theory of functional equations to...

This book explores multidimensional particle swarm optimization, a technique developed by the authors and presented in a well-defined algorithmic approach. All featured applications are supported with fully documented source code as well as sample datasets.