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We have witnessed significant advances in multimedia research and applications due to
the rapid increase in digital media, computing power, communication speed, and storage
capacity. Multimedia has become an indispensable aspect in contemporary daily life,
and we can feel its presence in many applications ranging from online multimedia search,
Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), and mobile multimedia, to social media. The proliferation
of diverse multimedia applications has been the motivating force for the research and
development of numerous paradigm-shifting technologies in multimedia processing.
This book documents the most recent advances in multimedia research and applications.
It is a comprehensive book, which covers a wide range of topics including multimedia
information mining, multimodal information fusion and interaction, multimedia security,
multimedia systems, hardware for multimedia, multimedia coding, multimedia search,
and multimedia communications. Each chapter of the book is contributed by prominent
experts in the field. Therefore, it offers a very insightful treatment on the topic.
This book includes an Introduction and 28 chapters. The Introduction provides a comprehensive
overview on recent advances in multimedia research and applications. The 28
chapters are classified into 7 parts. Part I focuses on Fundamentals of Multimedia, and Parts
II through VII focus on Methodology, Techniques, and Applications. |
