Fundamentals of Multimedia

Dr.Li ,Ze-Nian Li and Dr. Drew,Mark S. are Professors, in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada. Dr. Liu,Jiangchuan is an Associate Professor at the same affiliation.

Part I: Introduction and Multimedia Data Representations .- Introduction to Multimedia.- A Taste of Multimedia.- Graphics and Image Data Representations.- Color in Image and Video.- Fundamental Concepts in Video.- Basics of Digital Audio.- Part II: Multimedia Data Compression .- Lossless Compression Algorithms.- Lossy Compression Algorithms.- Image Compression Standards.- Basic Video Compression Techniques.- MPEG Video Coding: MPEG-1, 2, 4 and 7.- New Video Coding Standards: H.264 and H.265.- Basic Audio Compression Techniques.- MPEG Audio Compression.- Part III: Multimedia Communications and Networking .- Network Services and Protocols for Multimedia Communications.- Internet Multimedia Content Distribution.- Multimedia over Wireless and Mobile Networks.- Part IV: Multimedia Information Sharing and Retrieval .- Social Media Sharing.- Cloud Computing for Multimedia Services.- Content-Based Retrieval in Digital Libraries.