Best Selling Books by David Jacobs

Aaron is thrilled to be moving going into his junior year of high school. Anything to start over. And he has the perfect plan to be invisible at the new high school and avoid another highly public social disaster. All he has to do is lay low, make no friends, join no teams, and keep a boring C+ average. It's high school. Should be no problem.

Abstract: "Determining the similarity of two shapes is a significant task in both machine and human vision systems that must recognize or classify objects. The exact properties of human shape similarity judgements are not yet well understood, and this task is particularly difficult in domains where the shapes are not related by rigid transformations. In this paper we identify a number of possibly desirable properties of a shape similarity method, and determine the extent to which these properties can be captured by approaches that compare local properties of the contours of the shapes, through elastic matching. Special attention is devoted to objects that possess articulations, i.e., articulated parts. Elastic matching evaluates the similarity of two shapes as the sum of local deformations needed to change one shape into another. We show that similarities of part structure can be captured by such an approach, without the explicit computation of part structure. This may be of importance, since although parts appear to play a significant role in visual recognition, it is difficult to stably determine part structure. We also show novel results about how one can evaluate smooth and polyhedral shapes with the same method. Finally, we describe shape similarity effects that cannot be handled by current approaches."

An ornery swarm of cross-bred bees unleash a chemical into the air when they sting, stirring the other bees into a sting-happy frenzy. Now the bees have gotten a whiff of a local factory's smoke, which smells like stinger juice to them. Their next stop is the local drive-in theater where an all-night horror show will be on.

Discutindo temas controversos da atualidade, a Coleção Tendências do Milênio apresenta A ameaça, de David M. Jacobs – reconhecido mundialmente por suas pesquisas na área ufológica – , que traz à tona as controvérsias sobre a existência de vida alienígena. Jacobs analisa o fenômeno da abdução, a aparição de óvnis, denúncias de experiências genéticas, e alerta: nada garante o caráter amistoso dos visitantes.

This is a compilation of photographs and texts which highlights street rodding style and power on Main Street USA. T-buckets, custom pickups, Deuce Coupes, racing wreckers, and much more are pictured in full colour.