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Encyclopedia of Multimedia

  • Reference work
  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Borko Furht

    1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University (FAU), Boca Raton, USA

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  • Updated with 80 new entries
  • 10 new Editorial Board members, plus new contributors

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Table of contents (486 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
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  2. A

    1. Active Buffer Management for Provision of VCR Functionalities

      Pages 1-2

    2. Adaptation Decision Taking Engine

      Pages 2-2

    3. Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems

      Pages 2-3

    4. Adaptive Joint Source-Channel Coding for Scalable Video

      • Naeem Ramzan, Ebroul Izquierdo
      Pages 3-8

    5. Advances in Image and Video Quality Assessment

      • Kalpana Seshadrinathan, Alan C. Bovik
      Pages 8-17

    6. Ambient Media Intelligence

      Pages 17-17

    7. Analyzing Person Information in News Video

      • Shin'ichi Satoh
      Pages 17-21

    8. Application of Computational Intelligence in Content Adaptation

      Pages 21-21

    9. Applications of Face Recognition and Novel Trends

      Pages 21-22

    10. Architecture of Commercial News Systems

      Pages 22-23

    11. Architecture of Object-based Multimedia Storage Systems

      Pages 23-23

    12. Area of Interest Management

      Pages 23-23

    13. Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based Techniques for Finding a Sequence of Adaptation Operations

      Pages 24-24

    14. Audio and Video Information in Multimedia News Systems

      Pages 24-24

    15. Audio Compression and Coding Techniques

      • Jauvane C. de Oliveira
      Pages 25-31

    16. Audio Conferencing

      Pages 31-31

    17. Audio Streaming

      • Shervin Shirmohammadi, Jauvane C. de Oliveira
      Pages 31-35

    18. Augmented Reality

      Pages 35-36

    19. Authoring and Specification

      Pages 36-37
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About this book

Encyclopedia of Multimedia, Second Edition provides easy access to important concepts, issues and technology trends in the field of multimedia technologies, systems, techniques, and applications. Hundreds of leading researchers and world experts have contributed to this comprehensive collection of nearly 350 entries.

Over 1,100 heavily-illustrated pages — including 80 new entries — present concise overviews of all aspects of software, systems, web tools and hardware that enable video, audio and developing media to be shared and delivered electronically.

Borko Furht, Editor-in-Chief, in collaboration with the Editorial Board, surveyed and divided the field of multimedia into specific topics that collectively encompass foundations, technologies, applications, and emerging elements behind web technologies, wireless information transfer, and audio-visual formatting and storage. Borko Furht is also the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the international journal, Multimedia Tools and Applications.

Reviews

From the reviews of the second edition: “The Encyclopedia of Multimedia, second edition, has, as its aim, an in-depth coverage of the important concepts, issues, and technology trends in the field of multimedia technologies, systems, techniques, and applications. The work … is well illustrated with 565 figures and 51 tables. … This work is recommended for graduate and post-graduate students of multimedia for whom it will provide useful source and references, and for any organization specialising in the study or design of advanced multimedia devices.” (Eric Jukes, Reference Reviews, Vol. 24 (1), 2010)

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  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University (FAU), Boca Raton, USA

    Borko Furht

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