Researchers and practitioners from academia, business, and government share research ideas and results in 133 papers. Among their topics are a new method of locating license plates based on the multi-threshold quantization segmentation of color images, a telemetry system for acquiring and processing neuronal signals, the impact of reward programs on customer behavior at commercial banks, a new data transmission protocol in delay tolerant mobile wireless sensors, remote diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine using wireless sensor networks, simulating the response of multi-path directional interferences on a sonar array, robust image watermarking using independent component analysis, analyzing and implementing power supply capacity based on multi-data acquisition, nonverbal emotion interaction of virtual characters in cartoon games, and emergency document structuring. Only the authors are indexed. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
