Bøger i Multimedia Systems and Applications serien

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.