The Handbook of MPEG Applications: Standards in Practice

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the use of MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, MPEG-21, and MPEG-A standards, providing a detailed reference to their application.

In this book, the authors address five leading MPEG standards: MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, MPEG-21, and MPEG-A, focusing not only on the standards themselves, but specifically upon their application (e.g. for broadcasting media, personalised advertising and news, multimedia collaboration, digital rights management, resource adaptation, digital home systems, and so on); including MPEG cross-breed applications. In the evolving digital multimedia landscape, this book provides comprehensive coverage of the key MPEG standards used for generation and storage, distribution and dissemination, and delivery of multimedia data to various platforms within a wide variety of application domains. It considers how these MPEG standards may be used, the context of their use, and how supporting and complementary technologies and the standards interact and add value to each other.

Key Features:

• Integrates the application of five popular MPEG standards (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, MPEG-21, and MPEG-A) into one single volume, including MPEG cross-breed applications
• Up-to-date coverage of the field based on the latest versions of the five MPEG standards
• Opening chapter provides overviews of each of the five MPEG standards
• Contributions from leading MPEG experts worldwide
• Includes an accompanying website with supporting material (www.wiley.com/go/angelides_mpeg)

This book provides an invaluable reference for researchers, practitioners, CTOs, design engineers, and developers. Postgraduate students taking MSc, MRes, MPhil and PhD courses in computer science and engineering, IT consultants, and system developers in the telecoms, broadcasting and publishing sectors will also find this book of interest.

Professor Mario Angelides, Brunel University, UK
Mario Angelides is a Professor of Computing at Brunel University, a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer. He has been researching multimedia for nearly two decades and the application of MPEG standards through evolutionary computing for the last 8 years. He holds a BSc and a PhD from the LSE.

Dr. Harry Agius, Brunel University, UK
Harry Agius is a senior lecturer in Computing at Brunel University, and a Member of the British Computer Society. His research interests are in the area of multimedia content management, which he has been researching and teaching for the past 15 years, the past 6 years of which have focused on the M-PEG-7 standard. He holds BSc and PhD degrees from the LSE.