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Multimedia Systems

Delivering, Generating and Interacting with Multimedia

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. Tim Morris

    1. Department of Computation, UMIST, Manchester, UK

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  • COVERS A RANGE OF TOPICS THAT ARE NOT DEALT WITH IN ANY OTHER SINGLE TEXT.
  • WILL COMPLIMENT MOST COURSES ON MULTIMEDIA.
  • INCLUDES SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Applied Computing (APPLCOMP)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Tim Morris
      Pages 1-6

  3. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Perception and Data Coding

      • Tim Morris
      Pages 9-32

    3. Organising and Delivering Multimedia Objects

      • Tim Morris
      Pages 33-46

    4. Hardware to Support Multimedia Systems

      • Tim Morris
      Pages 47-58

  4. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. Multimedia Interactivity

      • Tim Morris
      Pages 61-73

    3. Speech Generation

      • Tim Morris
      Pages 75-88

    4. Speech Recognition

      • Tim Morris
      Pages 89-100

    5. Head Pointing Devices

      • Tim Morris
      Pages 101-120

    6. Gesture Recognition

      • Tim Morris
      Pages 121-136

    7. Motion Following and Interpretation

      • Tim Morris
      Pages 137-151

    8. Synthesising a Visual Response

      • Tim Morris
      Pages 153-162

  5. Conclusions

    1. Conclusions

      • Tim Morris
      Pages 163-166

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 167-191
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About this book

What are Multimedia Systems? This book is intended to expose you to multimedia in its widest sense. The popular understanding of this subject is that it is the integration and delivery of text, images and sound, usually on a desktop Pc. We are all familiar with examples from the extensive range of multimedia titles available on CD-ROM. These give us a rich set of sensory experiences, and, perhaps more important, we are free to navigate our way through the information as we choose. However, this is only half of the story since these titles can only deliver information. A recent IEEE publication (Chen, 1997) suggested that multimedia should include all systems that integrate diverse media, in standalone or networked applications, either for presentation or communication. Diverse media implies visual and aural information (text, static and moving pictures and sound). Networking could be realised using intranet or telephone links. Presentation systems would imply the multimedia delivery systems with which we are all familiar. Communication implies a two-way interaction with the computer. So as well as transmitting infor­ mation, multimedia systems should also be able to understand and react to information presented to them using the same set of diverse media (such as typed text, pictures and sound).

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computation, UMIST, Manchester, UK

    Tim Morris

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Multimedia Systems

  • Book Subtitle: Delivering, Generating and Interacting with Multimedia

  • Authors: Tim Morris

  • Series Title: Applied Computing

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0455-1

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-85233-248-8Published: 16 August 2000

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-0455-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-1542

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 191

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Multimedia Information Systems

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