Bøger i Multimedia Systems and Applications serien

This volume introduces machine learning techniques that are particularly powerful and effective for modeling multimedia data and common tasks of multimedia content analysis. Coverage includes examples of unsupervised learning, generative models and discriminative models.

This edited volume focuses on the latest and most impactful advancements of multimedia data globally available for environmental and earth biodiversity.

This book presents medical image watermarking techniques and algorithms for telemedicine and other emerging applications. The authors have developed improved/novel watermarking techniques for telemedicine applications that offer higher robustness, better perceptual quality and increased embedding capacity and secure watermark.

This book covers computationally innovative methods and technologies including data collection and elicitation, data processing, data analysis, data visualizations, and data presentation.

This book provides a deep analysis and wide coverage of the very strong trend in computer vision and visual indexing and retrieval, covering such topics as incorporation of models of Human Visual attention into analysis and retrieval tasks.

Advanced Wired and Wireless Networks brings the reader a sample of recent research efforts representative of advances in the areas of recognized importance for the future Internet, such as ad hoc networking, mobility support and performance improvements in advanced networks and protocols.

The authors emphasize the crucial role of innovation, inspiring users to develop new applications in multimedia technologies such as mobile media, large scale image and video databases, news video and film, forensic image databases and gesture databases.

This book provides a deep analysis and wide coverage of the very strong trend in computer vision and visual indexing and retrieval, covering such topics as incorporation of models of Human Visual attention into analysis and retrieval tasks.

This book presents effective ways to partition mobile devices such that the enterprise system access and its information are completely separated from the personal information.

This book covers aspects of human re-identification problems related to computer vision and machine learning.

As a foreword, here we publish an email letter of Late Professor Herb Simon, Nobel Laureate, that he wrote on the occasion ofthe death of the fatherofa friend.

The unprecedented growth in the range of multimedia services offered these days by modern telecommunication systems has been made possible only because of the advancements in signal processing technologies and algorithms.

Advanced Wired and Wireless Networks brings the reader a sample of recent research efforts representative of advances in the areas of recognized importance for the future Internet, such as ad hoc networking, mobility support and performance improvements in advanced networks and protocols.

Distributed retrieval of multimedia documents, especially the long duration documents, is an imperative step in rendering cost-effective services for network service providers. This work presents research status in the domain of distributed video retrieval. It includes different techniques that are in place for long duration video retrieval.

This book covers the MPEG H.264 and MS VC-1 video coding standards as well as issues in broadband video delivery over IP networks. This professional reference is designed for industry practitioners, including video engineers, and professionals in consumer electronics, telecommunications and media compression industries.

This book covers computationally innovative methods and technologies including data collection and elicitation, data processing, data analysis, data visualizations, and data presentation.

Presents a comprehensive survey of contemporary multimedia encryption and watermarking techniques. This book also provides a concept of visual and audio sharing techniques. It is useful for researchers and practitioners, as well as scientists and engineers who design and develop systems for the protection of digital multimedia content.

The unprecedented growth in the range of multimedia services offered these days by modern telecommunication systems has been made possible only because of the advancements in signal processing technologies and algorithms.

As a foreword, here we publish an email letter of Late Professor Herb Simon, Nobel Laureate, that he wrote on the occasion ofthe death of the fatherofa friend.

This book presents medical image watermarking techniques and algorithms for telemedicine and other emerging applications. The authors have developed improved/novel watermarking techniques for telemedicine applications that offer higher robustness, better perceptual quality and increased embedding capacity and secure watermark.

In order to establish technical prerequisites for efficient electronic business and education on the Internet, appropriate system support is needed as a vital condition for maximization of both short-term and long-term profits.

This is an edited volume, written by well-recognized international researchers with extended chapter style versions of the best papers presented at the SITIS 2006 International Conference.

This is an edited volume, written by well-recognized international researchers with extended chapter style versions of the best papers presented at the SITIS 2006 International Conference.

This volume presents high quality, state-of-the-art research ideas and results from theoretic, algorithmic and application viewpoints. The book specifically focuses on interaction with multimedia content with special emphasis on multimodal interfaces for accessing multimedia information.

Coding and Modulation for Digital Television presents a comprehensive description of all error control coding and digital modulation techniques used in Digital Television (DTV).

Coding and Modulation for Digital Television presents a comprehensive description of all error control coding and digital modulation techniques used in Digital Television (DTV).

In order to establish technical prerequisites for efficient electronic business and education on the Internet, appropriate system support is needed as a vital condition for maximization of both short-term and long-term profits.

This volume presents high quality, state-of-the-art research ideas and results from theoretic, algorithmic and application viewpoints. The book specifically focuses on interaction with multimedia content with special emphasis on multimodal interfaces for accessing multimedia information.

The final part of the book examines the delivery of object-based multimedia presentations and gives optimal algorithms for multiplex-scheduling of object-based audio-visual presentations, showing that the audio-visual object scheduling problem is NP-complete in the strong sense.