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- Provides an introduction to the fundamentals of multimedia for students with no background in the area
- Enhanced second edition with a greater emphasis on networks, including social networks, wireless and mobile networks and coverage of multimedia databases and retrieval
- Updated with the latest multimedia standards, such as the new video compression and conferencing standards H.264 and H.265
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Request lecturer material: sn.pub/lecturer-material
Part of the book series: Texts in Computer Science (TCS)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction and Multimedia Data Representations
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Front Matter
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Multimedia Data Compression
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Front Matter
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Multimedia Communications and Networking
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About this book
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 resources for both students andinstructors at an associated website.
Authors and Affiliations
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Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
Ze-Nian Li, Mark S. Drew, Jiangchuan Liu
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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/10.1007/978-3-319-05290-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34678-6Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-05290-8Published: 09 April 2014
Series ISSN: 1868-0941
Series E-ISSN: 1868-095X
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXIV, 727
Number of Illustrations: 253 b/w illustrations, 97 illustrations in colour
Topics: Image Processing and Computer Vision, Computer Communication Networks, Information Storage and Retrieval, Database Management