Multimedia Principles: Media Encoding and Content Analysis

Author: Stan Meyers
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: This book is a guide on media encoding and content analysis, with practical content and rich examples, suitable for every multimedia developer. From DVDs to the Internet, media encoding and content processing are key to effectively transmitting high-quality multimedia. In this book, two heavyweight experts in the field introduce the latest developments, providing engineering examples to help build multimedia systems with unprecedented performance. The book covers the basic characteristics of digital audio, images, video, graphics, and animation, argues for effective new methods in content analysis and compression, and shares expert insights and end-user issues. The book introduces the basic characteristics of digital audio, images, video, graphics, and animation, and argues for effective methods in content analysis and compression. The content includes the general features of multimedia and data streams and their impact on multimedia system design; basic audio concepts and representation techniques; graphics and image features; various video signals, broadcasting standards, digitization, and computer animation issues; basic compression methods and multimedia compression standards; optical storage technologies and devices; content processing technologies, etc. This book can be used as a textbook for undergraduate students in computer science and communication engineering, as well as a reference book for engineering professionals.