Streaming Media Architectures, Techniques, and Applications: Recent Advances

Streaming media is one of the most exciting and active research topics with continuing significant progress in the multimedia area, where streaming media has been experiencing dramatic growth and stepped into mainstream media communications. Streaming Media Architectures, Techniques, and Applications: Recent Advances spans a number of interdependent and emerging topics in streaming media. Streaming media is inherently a cross-disciplinary subject that involves information theory, signal processing, communication and networking etc. Coding and transmission definitely lie in the core position in streaming media, and these research topics have been extremely active in recent years. This book is a comprehensive collection of topics including media coding, wireless/mobile video, P2P media streaming, and applications of streaming media.

Ce Zhu received the B.S. degree from Sichuan University, China, and the M.Eng and Ph.D. degrees from Southeast University, China, in 1989, 1992, and 1994, respectively, all in electronic engineering. He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include image/video coding and communications, multimedia signal processing, and multimedia systems. He has authored or co-authored over 80 papers in journals and conferences. He holds two granted patents. Dr. Zhu has served on technical/program committees, organizing committees and as track/session chairs for about 40 international conferences. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing (Springer) and as an Editorial Board Member of Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer).

Yuenan Li received the B.Eng. degree and M.Eng. degree in Automatic Test and Control, and the Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Engineering, all from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), P. R. China, in 2004, 2006 and 2010, respectively. He is currently a lecturer at the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, P. R. China. His research interests include video indexing and retrieval, multimedia signal processing, and multimedia security.

Xiamu Niu received the B.Eng. degree and M.Eng. degree in Communication and Electronic Engineering, the Ph.D. degree in Instrument Science and Technology, all from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), P. R. China, in 1982, 1989 and 2000, respectively. From 2000 to 2002, he was an invited scientist and staff member in Department of Security Technology for Graphics and Communication System, Fruanhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Germany. He was awarded the Excellent Ph.D Dissertation of China in 2002. He is currently a Professor at the School of Computer Science, HIT. He is also the head of the Information Countermeasure Institute (ICT) at HIT. He had served as the executive chair of IIHMSP08 and the organizing chair of CIS07.