Multimedia Technology Tutorial (English Version) (English Version)

Author: Ze-Nian Li
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: The main features of this book include introducing multimedia creation tools, such as music sequencers, image and video editors, popular languages like XML and Smil, as well as programs like Director, Flash, and VRML. Representation of graphics/image/video/audio data, including color models, HDTV, MIDI, and audio encoding. Compression formats and standards for data, images, video, and audio, including lossless and lossy compression. Multimedia networking, considering QoS, VoIP, real-time media on-demand, and multimedia over wireless networks. Content-based retrieval in digital libraries. This book is written by an experienced educator and is based on actual materials presented in the classroom, making it suitable as a textbook for students in computer science and engineering. The book provides an overview of multimedia creation tools and categorization, including data representation for images, video, and audio, the important properties of color, data compression, multimedia communication and retrieval, and content-based retrieval in digital libraries.