Encyclopedia of Multimedia

Borko Furht (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
1001 Seiten
2008 | 2nd ed. 2008
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-0-387-74724-8 (ISBN)

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Provides an access to important concepts, issues and technology trends in the field of multimedia technologies, systems, techniques, and applications.
Encyclopedia of Multimedia, Second Edition provides easy access to important concepts, issues and technology trends in the field of multimedia technologies, systems, techniques, and applications. Hundreds of leading researchers and world experts have contributed to this comprehensive collection of nearly 350 entries.


Over 1,100 heavily-illustrated pages — including 80 new entries — present concise overviews of all aspects of software, systems, web tools and hardware that enable video, audio and developing media to be shared and delivered electronically.


Borko Furht, Editor-in-Chief, in collaboration with the Editorial Board, surveyed and divided the field of multimedia into specific topics that collectively encompass foundations, technologies, applications, and emerging elements behind web technologies, wireless information transfer, and audio-visual formatting and storage. Borko Furht is also the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the international journal, Multimedia Tools and Applications.

New topics include: 3D video compression and 3D content-based search.- MPEG-7, MPEG-21, and H.264.- Detection of high-level concepts in multimedia.- Multimedia content personalization.- Multimedia content adaptation.- Context-based arithmetic coding.- Adaptive joint source-channel coding.- Visual information retrieval.- Metadata standards.- Large scale multimedia streaming.- Image quality evaluation.- Color-mapped images.- Video stabilization.- Tracking and recognition for broadcast video.- Haptics in virtual reality and multimedia.- Object-based multimedia storage systems.- Security for multimedia applications.

From the reviews of the second edition:

“The Encyclopedia of Multimedia, second edition, has, as its aim, an in-depth coverage of the important concepts, issues, and technology trends in the field of multimedia technologies, systems, techniques, and applications. The work … is well illustrated with 565 figures and 51 tables. … This work is recommended for graduate and post-graduate students of multimedia for whom it will provide useful source and references, and for any organization specialising in the study or design of advanced multimedia devices.” (Eric Jukes, Reference Reviews, Vol. 24 (1), 2010)

Erscheint lt. Verlag 26.11.2008
Reihe/Serie Encyclopedia of Multimedia | 1.20
Zusatzinfo 565 Illustrations, black and white; XXX, 1001 p. 565 illus.
Verlagsort New York, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 193 x 260 mm
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Lexikon / Chroniken
Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Datenbanken
Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Grafik / Design
Informatik Theorie / Studium Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
ISBN-10 0-387-74724-9 / 0387747249
ISBN-13 978-0-387-74724-8 / 9780387747248
Zustand Neuware
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