Building Telephony Systems with OpenSER. A step-by-step guide to building a high performance Telephony System

Flavio E. Goncalves, Bogdan Andrei Iancu (EUR), Flavio E Goncalves

Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners. Build Android apps starting from zero programming experience with the new Kotlin programming language

John Horton

Android is the most popular mobile operating system in the world and Kotlin has been declared by Google as a first-class programming language to build Android apps. With the imminent arrival of the most anticipated Android update, Android 10 (Q), this book gets you started building apps compatible with the latest version of Android.It adopts a project-style approach, where we focus on teaching the fundamentals of Android app development and the essentials of Kotlin by building three real-world apps and more than a dozen mini-apps. The book begins by giving you a strong grasp of how Kotlin and Android work together before gradually moving onto exploring the various Android APIs for building stunning apps for Android with ease. You will learn to make your apps more presentable using different layouts. You will dive deep into Kotlin programming concepts such as variables, functions, data structures, Object-Oriented code, and how to connect your Kotlin code to the UI. You will learn to add multilingual text so that your app is accessible to millions of more potential users. You will learn how animation, graphics, and sound effects work and are implemented in your Android app.By the end of the book, you will have sound knowledge about significant Kotlin programming concepts and start building your own fully featured Android apps.

AUTOSAR Fundamentals and Applications. Establishing a solid foundation for automotive software design with AUTOSAR

Hossam Soffar

AUTOSAR has become the standard for developing automotive ECUs, driven by the demand for increasingly sophisticated features that require a robust, safe, secure, and scalable framework for efficient development for automotive software. For those new to AUTOSAR, its complexity, intricate architecture, and extensive standards can be daunting. With twelve years of experience in the automotive software industry, Hossam Soffar brings his unparalleled expertise to this essential AUTOSAR guide, addressing these challenges by explaining AUTOSAR's framework, architecture, and their application through best practices and real-world use cases.This book comprehensively explores AUTOSAR’s objectives, guiding you through its layered architecture and various stacks, components, and communication mechanisms. You’ll learn how to design, configure, and integrate AUTOSAR Basic Software (BSW) components, understand the real-time-environment (RTE), and master the principles of communications, diagnostics, security, and operating systems, all of which is essential for developing high-quality, safety-critical, and efficient ECUs. With a clear understanding of how these elements work together, you'll be equipped to navigate the complexities of modern automotive software development to build, implement, and manage automotive systems with enhanced efficiency.

OpenCV 4 with Python Blueprints. Build creative computer vision projects with the latest version of OpenCV 4 and Python 3 - Second Edition

Dr. Menua Gevorgyan, Arsen Mamikonyan, Michael Beyeler

OpenCV is a native cross-platform C++ library for computer vision, machine learning, and image processing. It is increasingly being adopted in Python for development. This book will get you hands-on with a wide range of intermediate to advanced projects using the latest version of the framework and language, OpenCV 4 and Python 3.8, instead of only covering the core concepts of OpenCV in theoretical lessons. This updated second edition will guide you through working on independent hands-on projects that focus on essential OpenCV concepts such as image processing, object detection, image manipulation, object tracking, and 3D scene reconstruction, in addition to statistical learning and neural networks.You’ll begin with concepts such as image filters, Kinect depth sensor, and feature matching. As you advance, you’ll not only get hands-on with reconstructing and visualizing a scene in 3D but also learn to track visually salient objects. The book will help you further build on your skills by demonstrating how to recognize traffic signs and emotions on faces. Later, you’ll understand how to align images, and detect and track objects using neural networks.By the end of this OpenCV Python book, you’ll have gained hands-on experience and become proficient at developing advanced computer vision apps according to specific business needs.

Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance for Administrators. A definitive guide to planning, implementing, and maintaining Microsoft 365 security posture

Sasha Kranjac, Omar Kudovic

In today's hostile cyber landscape, securing data and complying with regulations is paramount for individuals, businesses, and organizations alike. Learn how Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance offers powerful tools to protect sensitive data and defend against evolving cyber threats with this comprehensive guide for administrators.Starting with an introduction to Microsoft 365 plans and essential compliance and security features, this book delves into the role of Azure Active Directory in Microsoft 365, laying the groundwork for a robust security framework. You’ll then advance to exploring the complete range of Microsoft 365 Defender security products, their coverage, and unique protection services to combat evolving threats.From threat mitigation strategies to governance and compliance best practices, you’ll gain invaluable insights into classifying and protecting data while mastering crucial data lifecycle capabilities in Microsoft 365.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to elevate the security and compliance posture of your organization significantly.

Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Compliance Management Cookbook. Over 40 practical recipes that will help you plan, build, implement, and enhance IT compliance policies using Microsoft Security Compliance Manager and Microsoft System Center 2012 R2

Andreas Baumgarten (USD), Susan Roesner, Ronnie Isherwood

Hands-On Computer Vision with Detectron2. Develop object detection and segmentation models with a code and visualization approach

Van Vung Pham, Tommy Dang

Computer vision is a crucial component of many modern businesses, including automobiles, robotics, and manufacturing, and its market is growing rapidly. This book helps you explore Detectron2, Facebook's next-gen library providing cutting-edge detection and segmentation algorithms. It’s used in research and practical projects at Facebook to support computer vision tasks, and its models can be exported to TorchScript or ONNX for deployment.The book provides you with step-by-step guidance on using existing models in Detectron2 for computer vision tasks (object detection, instance segmentation, key-point detection, semantic detection, and panoptic segmentation). You’ll get to grips with the theories and visualizations of Detectron2’s architecture and learn how each module in Detectron2 works. As you advance, you’ll build your practical skills by working on two real-life projects (preparing data, training models, fine-tuning models, and deployments) for object detection and instance segmentation tasks using Detectron2. Finally, you’ll deploy Detectron2 models into production and develop Detectron2 applications for mobile devices.By the end of this deep learning book, you’ll have gained sound theoretical knowledge and useful hands-on skills to help you solve advanced computer vision tasks using Detectron2.

Designing and Implementing Linux Firewalls and QoS using netfilter, iproute2, NAT and l7-filter. Learn how to secure your system and implement QoS using real-world scenarios for networks of all sizes

Lucian Gheorghe

Firewalls are used to protect your network from the outside world. Using a Linux firewall, you can do a lot more than just filtering packets. This book shows you how to implement Linux firewalls and Quality of Service using practical examples from very small to very large networks.After giving us a background of network security, the book moves on to explain the basic technologies we will work with, namely netfilter, iproute2, NAT and l7-filter. These form the crux of building Linux firewalls and QOS. The later part of the book covers 5 real-world networks for which we design the security policies, build the firewall, setup the script, and verify our installation.Providing only necessary theoretical background, the book takes a practical approach, presenting case studies and plenty of illustrative examples.