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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
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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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Multimedia Data Compression
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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 and instructors 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