Recent Advances in Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications

1. Front Matter

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2. Section I

   1. Color in Multimedia

      • Rastislav Lukac

      Pages 1-25

   2. Advances in Video Summarization and Skimming

      • Richard M. Jiang, Abdul H. Sadka, Danny Crookes

      Pages 27-50

   3. New Video Abstractions for Summarisation and Browsing

      • Janko Ćalić

      Pages 51-71

   4. Multi-dimensional BPTs for Content Retrieval

      • Shirin Ghanbari, John C. Woods, Simon M. Lucas

      Pages 73-90

   5. Logarithmic r-θ Map for Hybrid Optical Neural Network Filter for Object Recognition within Cluttered Scenes

      • Ioannis Kypraios, Rupert C. D. Young, Chris R. Chatwin

      Pages 91-120

   6. 2D-3D Pose Invariant Face Recognition System for Multimedia Applications

      • Antonio Rama, Francesc Tarrés, Jürgen Rurainsky

      Pages 121-144

   7. Interfaces That Should Feel Right: Natural Interaction with Multimedia Information

      • Radu-Daniel Vatavu

      Pages 145-170

3. Section II

   1. Super Resolution for Multimedia, Image, and Video Processing Applications

      • K. Malczewski, R. Stasiński

      Pages 171-208

   2. Flexible Motion Models for Scalable and High Definition Video Coding

      • Marta Mrak, Toni Zgaljic

      Pages 209-243

   3. Video Transcoding Techniques

      • Sandro Moiron, Mohammed Ghanbari, Pedro Assunção, Sérgio Faria

      Pages 245-270

   4. Cross-Layer Approach for Reliable Transmission of Wavelet Coded Images over Portable Multimedia Devices

      • Ekram Khan, Athar A. Moinuddin, Mohammed Ghanbari

      Pages 271-294

   5. HD Video Communication at Very Low Bitrates

      • Ulrik Söderström, Haibo Li

      Pages 295-314

   6. Evolution of IPTV Architecture and Services towards NGN

      • Eugen Mikoczy, Pavol Podhradsky

      Pages 315-339

   7. Exploring the Characteristics of High Definition Television Systems

      • Goran Gvozden, Emil Dumic, Sonja Grgic

      Pages 341-373

4. Section III

   1. Encryption Based Robust Watermarking in Fractional Wavelet Domain

      • Gaurav Bhatnagar, Balasubramanian Raman

      Pages 375-416

   2. Multimedia Encryption: A Brief Overview

      • Nidhi S. Kulkarni, Balasubramanian Raman, Indra Gupta

      Pages 417-449

   3. The Method for Image Copy Detection Robust to Basic Image Processing Techniques

      • Karol Wnukowicz, Grzegorz Galiński, Władysław Skarbek

      Pages 451-466

   4. An Optimally Robust Digital Watermarking Algorithm for Stereo Image Coding

      • S. Kumar, R. Balasubramanian

      Pages 467-493

   5. Reversible Watermarking for 3D Cameras: Hiding Depth Maps

      • Asad Ali, Asifullah Khan

      Pages 495-521

The rapid increase in computing power and communication speed, coupled with computer storage facilities availability, has led to a new age of multimedia app- cations. Multimedia is practically everywhere and all around us we can feel its presence in almost all applications ranging from online video databases, IPTV, - teractive multimedia and more recently in multimedia based social interaction. These new growing applications require high-quality data storage, easy access to multimedia content and reliable delivery. Moving ever closer to commercial - ployment also aroused a higher awareness of security and intellectual property management issues. All the aforementioned requirements resulted in higher demands on various - eas of research (signal processing, image/video processing and analysis, com- nication protocols, content search, watermarking, etc.). This book covers the most prominent research issues in multimedia and is divided into four main sections: i) content based retrieval, ii) storage and remote access, iii) watermarking and co- right protection and iv) multimedia applications. Chapter 1 of the first section presents an analysis on how color is used and why is it crucial in nowadays multimedia applications. In chapter 2 the authors give an overview of the advances in video abstraction for fast content browsing, transm- sion, retrieval and skimming in large video databases and chapter 3 extends the discussion on video summarization even further. Content retrieval problem is tackled in chapter 4 by describing a novel method for producing meaningful s- ments suitable for MPEG-7 description based on binary partition trees (BPTs).

• Audio
• DOM
• Interactive Multimedia
• coding
• filter
• image processing
• multimedia
• signal processing
• video

• Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing Department ofWireless Communications, University of Zagreb , Zagreb, Croatia

  Mislav Grgic

• Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing Department ofWireless Communications , University of Zagreb , Zagreb, Croatia

  Kresimir Delac

• School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex , Colchester, UK

  Mohammed Ghanbari

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