Video and Image Processing in Multimedia Systems treats a number of critical topics in
multimedia systems, with respect to image and video processing techniques and their …

55% new material in the latest edition of this “must-have for students and practitioners of
image & video processing! This Handbook is intended to serve as the basic reference point …

Multimedia Signals and Systems is an essential text for professional and academic
researchers and students in the field of multimedia. Multimedia Signals and Systems is …

In order to build successful video processing systems, it is important to consider not only
traditional image processing methods, but also techniques which account for temporal …

Typically in a television chain, a single costly source broadcasts picture material to a large
number of low cost receivers. The high number of receivers has evidently prevented rapid …

The challenge of multimedia processing is to provide services that seamlessly integrate text,
sound, image, and video information and to do it in a way that preserves the ease of use and …

In digital libraries and the Internet, large amount of data in various modalities has to be
transmitted and delivered across the networks, and is subject to bandwidth constraints and …

As multimedia applications have become part of contemporary daily life, numerous
paradigm-shifting technologies in multimedia processing have emerged over the last …

Video compression and retrieval have been treated as separate problems in the past. We
present an object-based video representation that facilitates both compression and retrieval …

Advances in distributed multimedia systems have begun to significantly affect the
development of on-demand multimedia services. Researchers are working within …