Overview
- Provides an introduction to the fundamentals of multimedia for students with no background in the area
- Enhanced third edition with a greater emphasis on social, mobile, and cloud computing for human-centric interactive multimedia, augmented reality, and virtual reality, as well as deep learning for multimedia processing
- Updated with the latest multimedia standards, such as 360-degree video and the video-coding standard H.266
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Part of the book series: Texts in Computer Science (TCS)
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PREVIOUS EDITIONThis textbook introduces the “Fundamentals of Multimedia”, addressing real issues commonly faced in the workplace. The essential concepts are explained in a practical way to enable students to apply their existing skills to address problems in multimedia. Fully revised and updated, this new edition now includes coverage of such topics as 3D TV, social networks, high-efficiency video compression and conferencing, wireless and mobile networks, and their attendant technologies.
Features: presents an overview of the key concepts in multimedia, including color science; reviews lossless and lossy compression methods for image, video and audio data; examines the demands placed by multimedia communications on wired and wireless networks; discusses the impact of social media and cloud computing on information sharing and on multimedia content search and retrieval; includes study exercises at the end of each chapter; provides supplementary resourcesfor both students and instructors at an associated website.
Features: presents an overview of the key concepts in multimedia, including color science; reviews lossless and lossy compression methods for image, video and audio data; examines the demands placed by multimedia communications on wired and wireless networks; discusses the impact of social media and cloud computing on information sharing and on multimedia content search and retrieval; includes study exercises at the end of each chapter; provides supplementary resourcesfor both students and instructors at an associated website.
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction and Multimedia Data Representations
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Multimedia Data Compression
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Multimedia Communications and Networking
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Drs. Ze-Nian Li, Mark S. Drew, and Jiangchuan Liu are Professors in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fundamentals of Multimedia
Authors: Ze-Nian Li, Mark S. Drew, Jiangchuan Liu
Series Title: Texts in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62124-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62123-0Published: 17 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62126-1Published: 17 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62124-7Published: 16 February 2021
Series ISSN: 1868-0941
Series E-ISSN: 1868-095X
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XXV, 824
Number of Illustrations: 277 b/w illustrations, 113 illustrations in colour
Topics: Image Processing and Computer Vision, Multimedia Information Systems, Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Computer Communication Networks, Web Development