Design and Management of Multimedia Information Systems: Opportunities and Challenges - Softcover

Rahman, Syed Mahbubur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1930708009 ISBN 13: 9781930708006

Publisher: Igi Global, 2000

Synopsis

Multimedia technology has the potential to transform end user computing from interactive text and graphics models into something more compatible with the digital and electronic world of the new century. Design and Management of Multimedia Information Systems: Opportunities and Challenges aims to help technology professionals gain an understanding and perspective on areas related to multimedia computing and communication, while addressing the major issues and challenges in the design and management of multimedia information systems.

About this title

About the Author

###############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Increasing uses of multiple media (voice, data, images and video etc.) are being experienced in most application areas such as entertainment, communication, collaborate work, electronic commerce and university courses etc. Use of multimedia contribute to improved user's ability to communicate and collaborate. Decreasing hardware cost with relatively inexpensive storage capacity along with rapid increase in computing power and network bandwidth, which are major requirements of multimedia applications, have contributed to tremendous growth in production and use of multimedia contents being experienced recently. Multimedia technology has demonstrated potential to evolve the paradigm of end user computing, from interactive text and graphics model, into one more compatible with the digital electronic world of the next century. Multimedia technologies has enabled electronic processing of information to be recorded in formats those are different from the standard text format e.g. image, audio and video formats. With the increased availability and easy access to electronic multimedia information is also arising new challenges to all areas involving data management, retrieval, synchronization and transportation of large volume of media generated data.

This book discusses many of these major multimedia related issues and recently proposed approaches to address them. Topics include methods and tools to provide optimum access to desired contents from large amount of multimedia data, their management, synchronization and copyright aspect etc. The following paragraphs are intended to put together the abstracts from each chapter in a manner to provide an overview of the topics covered. The chapters are grouped into the following interrelated sections: Modeling for Multimedia Communication, Management, Document Retrieval and Compression, Media Retrieval and Database Access, Design and Applications: 2D, 3D and Virtual reality environments, Design and Application: Educational Multimedia, Temporal Modeling, Legal Issue - Multimedia Copyright.

The nature and range of the topics covered in this book means that it can be used by professionals from different categories including academics, students and researchers in the broad area of multimedia information management and design. This book is not intended to cover the networking aspect of multimedia information systems. A second book covering this aspect and entitled 'Multimedia Networking: Technology, Management and Applications' is planned immediately following this book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Igi Global
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1930708009
• ISBN 13: 9781930708006
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464