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Intelligent Multimedia Communication: Techniques and Applications

  • covers the basic theories, algorithms and applications of intelligent techniques in multimedia transmission.
  • thorough description of intelligent multimedia transmission

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI, volume 280)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Rate Control and Error Resilience for Object-Based Video Coding

    • Paulo Nunes, Luis Ducla Soares
    Pages 1-50
  3. Present and Future Video Coding Standards

    • Jie Dong, King Ngi Ngan
    Pages 75-124
  4. AVS Video Coding Standard

    • Wen Gao, Siwei Ma, Li Zhang, Li Su, Debin Zhao
    Pages 125-166
  5. A Resolution Adaptive Video Compression System

    • Serhan Uslubas, Ehsan Maani, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos
    Pages 167-194
  6. Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems

    • Yifeng He, Ling Guan
    Pages 195-215
  7. Intelligent Video Network Engineering with Distributed Optimization: Two Case Studies

    • Ying Li, Zhu Li, Mung Chiang, A. Robert Calderbank
    Pages 253-290
  8. Media Coding for Streaming in Networks with Source and Path Diversity

    • Nikolaos Thomos, Pascal Frossard
    Pages 291-316
  9. Peer-Assisted Media Streaming: A Holistic Review

    • Yuan Feng, Baochun Li
    Pages 317-340
  10. FTV (Free-Viewpoint TV)

    • Masayuki Tanimoto
    Pages 341-365
  11. UGC Video Sharing: Measurement and Analysis

    • Xu Cheng, Kunfeng Lai, Dan Wang, Jiangchuan Liu
    Pages 367-402
  12. Terrestrial Television Broadcasting in China: Technologies and Applications

    • Wenjun Zhang, Yunfeng Guan, Xiaokang Yang, Weiqiang Liang
    Pages 403-423
  13. Network Topology Inference for Multimedia Streaming

    • Xing Jin, S. -H. Gary Chan
    Pages 425-441
  14. Resolution-Improvement Scheme for Wireless Video Transmission

    • Liang Zhou, Athanasios Vasilakos, Yan Zhang, Gabiel-Miro Muntean
    Pages 443-464
  15. Human-Centered Face Computing in Multimedia Interaction and Communication

    • Yun Fu, Hao Tang, Jilin Tu, Hai Tao, Thomas S. Huang
    Pages 465-505
  16. Back Matter

About this book

Multimedia data are used more and more widely in human being's life, e.g., videoconferencing, visual telephone, IPTV, etc. Nearly most of the applications need multimedia transmission techniques that send multimedia data from one side to another side and keep the properties of efficiency, robustness and security. Here, the efficiency denotes the time cost of transmission operations, the robustness denotes the ability to survive transmission errors or noises, and the security denotes the protection of the transmitted media content. Recently, various intelligent or innovative techniques are invented, which bring vast performance improvements to practical applications. For example, such content transmission techniques as p2p, sensor network and ad hoc network are constructed, which adaptively use the peers’ properties to improve the network’s resources. Multimedia adaptation techniques can adjust the multimedia data rate in order to compliant with the network’s bandwidth. Scalable encryption techniques can generate the data stream that can be correctly decrypted after bit rate conversion. Ubiquitous multimedia services make the user share any kind of content anywhere.

The book includes fourteen chapters highlighting current concepts, issues and emerging technologies. Distinguished scholars from many prominent research institutions around the world contribute to the book. The book covers various aspects, including not only some fundamental knowledge and the latest key techniques, but also typical applications and open issues. For example, the covered topics include the present and future video coding standards, stereo and multiview coding techniques, free-viewpoint TV techniques, wireless broadcasting techniques, media streaming techniques, wireless media transmission techniques and systems, and User-Generated Content sharing.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

    Chang Wen Chen

  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

    Zhu Li

  • France Telecom R&D, Beijing, China

    Shiguo Lian

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eBook USD 129.00
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