Multimedia Fundamentals: Media Coding and Content Processing

From DVDs to the Internet, media coding and content processing are central to the effective delivery of high-quality multimedia. In this book, two of the field's leading experts introduce today's state-of-the-art -- presenting realistic examples and projects designed to help implementers create multimedia systems with unprecedented performance.KEY TOPICS:The authors introduce the fundamental characteristics and properties of digital audio, images, video, graphics and animation, giving multimedia system designers and application developer the key information they need to build advanced multimedia systems and applications. They reflect the latest approaches to content analysis and compression, showing how to take advantage of the characteristics of images, video or speech to specify and compress multimedia content with maximum efficiency. They present comprehensive coverage of system and end-user issues that cannot be found elsewhere, and present hands-on projects designed to help professionals rapidly deepen their expertise.MARKET:For every professional involved in implementing or researching state-of-the-art multimedia systems and applications, including multimedia and communications engineers, software developers, streaming media specialists, and technical project managers.

RALF STEINMETZ is Professor of Multimedia Communications at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Chairman of the Board of the Hessian Telemedia Technology Competence Center httc, and a leader in the worldwide community of advanced multimedia researchers. He initiated the IEEE Multimedia Magazine, has been editor of various journals, is an IEEE Fellow, and also recently became an ACM Fellow. His textbook, Multimedia Technology: Principles, Components and Systems, has been the authoritative resource in various languages for American and European universities since its first publication in 1995.

 

KLARA NAHRSTEDT is Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include Quality of Service provisioning for real-time multimedia processing and communication systems. She is the main editor of the ACM/Springer Multimedia Journal and has served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, the Computer Networks Journal, and the Journal on Multimedia Applications and Tools.