Research Catalog

Title

Handbook of multimedia computing / editor-in-chief, Borko Furht.

Publication

Boca Raton : CRC Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Additional Authors

Furht, Borivoje.

Description

xvi, 971 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

• Handbook on Multimedia Computing provides a comprehensive resource on advanced topics in this field, considered here as the integration of four industries: computer, communication, broadcasting/entertainment, and consumer electronics. This reference compiles contributions from 80 academic and industry leaders, examining all the major subsets of multimedia activity.
• Handbook on Multimedia Computing serves researchers and practitioners in the field, scientists and engineers involved in multimedia system design and applications, and anyone wanting to learn about the field of multimedia computing.

Alternative Title

Multimedia computing

Subject

• Multimedia systems

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Pt. I. Basic Concepts and Standards. 1. Multimedia Taxonomy for Design and Evaluation / Rachelle S. Heller and C. Dianne Martin. 2. Multimedia Objects / Atsushi Atarashi and Rei Hamikawa. 3. Multimedia Data Modeling and Management for Semantic Content Retrieval / Clement H. C. Leung and Dwi Sutanto. 4. Middleware Platforms to Support Multimedia Applications / John Bates. 5. DAVIC and Multimedia Standards / Hari Kalva, Hidenori Okuda and Shih-Fu Chang [et al.]. 6. Interactive Multimedia User Interfaces / Meera M. Blattner. 7. Digital Audio Presentation and Compression / Ray Westwater. 8. Image Presentation and Compression / Borko Furht. 9. Video Presentation and Compression / Borko Furht and Raymond Westwater -- Pt. II. Multimedia Retrieval and Processing Techniques. 10. Classification, Search, and Retrieval of Audio / Erling Wold, Thom Blum and Douglas Keislar [et al.]. 11. Content-Based Image Indexing and Retrieval / Wei-Ying Ma and HongJiang Zhang.
• 12. Content-Based Video Browsing and Retrieval / HongJiang Zhang. 13. Indexing for Efficient Spatial Similarity-Based Retrieval in Multimedia Databases / Venkat Gudivada, Rajesh V. Sonak and William I. Grosky [et al.]. 14. Classification and Characterization of Digital Watermarks for Multimedia Data / James Ford, Fillia Makedon and Charles B. Owen. 15. Automatic and Dynamic Video Manipulation / John Chung-Mong Lee, Qing Li and Wei Xiong. 16. Multimedia Information Retrieval Using Pictorial Transcripts / Behzad Shahraray. 17. Automatic Trailer Production / Rainer Lienhart, Silvia Pfeiffer and Wolfgang Effelsberg. 18. Multimedia Archiving, Logging, and Retrieval / Rune Hjeslvold, Shih-Ping Liou and Remi Depommier. 19. Cross-Modal Information Retrieval / Charles B. Owen and Fillia Makedon. 20. Detection and Recognition of Television Commercials / Rainer Lienhart, Christoph Kuhmunch and Wolfgang Effelsberg -- Pt. III. Multimedia Systems and Techniques.
• 21. Processor Architectures for Multimedia / Borko Furht. 22. Authoring Techniques for Temporal Scenarios of Multimedia Documents / Muriel Jourdan, Nabil Layaida and Cecile Roisin. 23. Scheduling for Integrated Service in Multimedia Systems / A. L. Narasimha Reddy and Ravi Wijayaratne. 24. Storage Organizations for Multimedia Data / Clement H. C. Leung and Philip K. C. Tse. 25. Multimedia Synchronization / B. Prabhakaran. 26. High-Precision Temporal Synchronization in Multimedia Systems / Wolfgang A. Halang, Markus Wannemacher and Reiner Lichtenecker [et al.]. 27. Design and Implementation of Multimedia Servers / Shahram Ghandeharizadeh. 28. Multimedia Database Management Systems / Karl Aberer, Heiko Thimm and Erich J. Neuhold. 29. Multimedia Support in Java / Joseph Celi and Borko Furht. 30. Operating System Issues for Continuous Media / Henning Schulzrinne. 31. Hypermedia Techniques for Distributed Systems / Mark Kessler and Borko Furht.
• 32. Distributed Multimedia Systems / Victor O. K. Li and Wanjium Liao. 33. Interactive Movies / Ryohei Nakatsu and Naoko Tosa. 34. Virtual Reality Systems for Browsing Multimedia / Antonio Massari, Lorenzo Saladini and Fabio Sisinni [et al.]. 35. Multimedia Virtual Reality Systems / Tsuneo Ikedo. 36. Multimedia Education / Roy Rada -- Pt. IV. Multimedia Communications and Networking. 37. Multimedia Networks / Nalin Sharda. 38. Video Transport in ATM Networks: A System View / D. Raychaudhuri, Daniel Reininger and R. Siracusa. 39. Quality of Service in Networked Multimedia Systems / Klara Nahrstedt. 40. End-to-End Quality in Multimedia Applications / Mark Claypool and John Riedl. 41. Resource Management in Multimedia Systems / Lars C. Wolf. 42. A Framework for Building Adaptive Continuous Media Applications Using Service Proxies / Tatsuo Nakajima. 43. Conferencing and Collaborative Computing / Eve M. Schooler.

ISBN

0849318254 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98024633

OCLC

• 39223615
• ocm39223615

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries