Multimedia Systems: Algorithms, Standards, and Industry Practices - Softcover

1: Introduction. 2: Digital Data Acquisition. 3: Media Representation and Formats. 4: Color. 5: Authoring. 6: Compression Overview 7: Media Compression Images. 8: Media Compression Video. 9: Media Compression Audio. 10: Media Compression Graphics. 11: Networking. 12: Wireless Networking. 13: Digital Rights Management. 14: MPEG-4. 15: Multimedia Databases. 16: Multimedia Frameworks. 17: Concluding Chapter.

MULTIMEDIA: ALGORITHMS, STANDARDS, AND INDUSTRY PRACTICES brings together the different aspects of a modern multimedia pipeline from content creation, compression, distribution and digital rights management. Drawing on their experience in industry, Havaldar and Medioni discuss the issues involved in engineering an end-to-end multimedia pipeline and give plenty of real-world examples including digital television, IPTV, mobile deployments, and digital cinema pipelines. The text also contains up-to-date coverage of current issues in multimedia, including a discussion of MPEG-4 and the current progress in MPEG-21 to create a framework where seamless data exchange will be possible.