Encyclopedia of multimedia

The Encyclopedia of Multimedia provides in-depth coverage of the important concepts, issues and technology trends in the field of multimedia technologies, systems, techniques, and applications. It is a comprehensive collection of articles that present perspectives and future trends in the field from hundreds of leading researchers and world experts in the field. The articles in the book describe a number of topics in multimedia systems and applications – from multimedia servers, to multimedia databases and multimedia networks and communications, to emerging multimedia applications. The editor, working with the Encyclopedia's Editorial Board and a large number of contributors, surveyed and divided the field of multimedia into specific topics that collectively encompass the foundations, technologies, applications, and emerging elements of this exciting field. The intended audience of The Encyclopedia of Multimedia is technically diverse and wide, it includes everyone concerned with multimedia systems and their applications. Specifically, the Encyclopedia serves as a valuable reference for system designers, engineers, programmers, and managers who are involved in multimedia system design and their applications. Practitioners in industry and advanced-level students in computer science and engineering will benefit from this volume.

Adaptive Hypermedia.- Animation Databases.- Collaborative Computing.- Compression and Coding Techniques, Audio.- Compression and Coding Techniques, Images.- Compression and Coding Techniques, Video.- Content-Based Retrieval.- Content Extraction and Metadata.- Content Modeling, Multimedia.- Content Repurposing.- Cryptography Techniques, Multimedia.- Databases, Images.- Databases, Video.- Data Modeling, Multimedia.- Distributed Multimedia Systems.- Education, Multimedia.- Error Control in Video Communications.- Image Data Representations- Intelligent Tutoring Systems.- Human Computer Interaction and Multimedia.- Mobile Multimedia.- Motion Estimation-MPEG Video Coding Standards.- Multimedia Authoring.- Multimedia Distance Education.- Multimedia Document Systems.- Multimedia Entertainment Applications.- Multimedia Libraries.- Multimedia Mining.- Multimedia News Systems.- Multimedia Objects.- Multimedia Publishing Systems.- Multimedia Taxonomy.- Multimedia Web Information Systems.- Operating Systems, Multimedia.- Quality of Service in Multimedia Networks.- Resource Management in Multimedia Systems.- Processor Architectures, Multimedia.- Retrieval, Images.- Retrieval, Music and Audio.- Retrieval, Video.- Scalable Video Coding.- Scheduling in Multimedia Systems.- Segmentation of Video- Semantic Web.- Servers, Multimedia.- Storage Organizations, Multimedia.- Streaming Video.- Synchronization, Multimedia.- Telepresence.- Universal Multimedia Access.- Video Content Summarization.- Video Quality Assessment.- Video On-Demand.- Video Search Engines.- Video Transcoding.- Virtual and Augmented Reality.- Watermarking, Audio.- Watermarking, Image.- Watermarking, Video.