Advances in Power Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering

This research book presents a sample of recent advances in information hiding techniques and their applications. It includes:Image data hiding scheme based on vector quantization and image graph coloringThe copyright protection system for Android platformReversible data hidingICA-based image and video watermarkingContent-based invariant image watermarkingSingle bitmap block truncation coding of color images using cat swarm optimizationGenetic-based wavelet packet watermarking for copyright protectionLossless text steganography in compression codingFast and low-distortion capacity acoustic synchronized acoustic-to-acoustic steganography schemeVideo watermarking with shot detection....

Engineering and design are often a necessary steps for an industry to become effective. Industry modeling can help to bridge the communication gap among engineers and system designers.Dynamic Methods and Process Advancements in Mechanical, Manufacturing, and Materials Engineering examines the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing and maintenance of mechanical equipments and systems. Targeting researchers, practitioners, and academicians, this volume promotes innovative findings in mechanical, manufacturing and materials engineering....

Data-Driven Modeling: Using MATLAB in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering provides a systematic account of major concepts and methodologies for data-driven models and presents a unified framework that makes the subject more accessible to and applicable for researchers and practitioners. It integrates important theories and applications of data-driven models and uses them to deal with a wide range of problems in the field of water resources and environmental engineering such as hydrological forecasting, flood analysis, water quality monitoring, regionalizing climatic data, and general function approximation. The book presentsthe statistical-based models including basic statistical analysis, nonparametric and logistic regression methods, time...