College Textbook: Fundamentals and Applications of Multimedia Technology

Author: Zhong Yuzhuo
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: This book explores multimedia computers from the perspectives of research, development, and application, covering the definition, key technologies, current status, and future trends of multimedia computers; audio and video information acquisition and processing technologies; multimedia data compression and encoding technologies and current international standards for encoding; the hardware and software system architecture of multimedia computers; hypertext and hypermedia technologies; and application technologies of multimedia computers: including the creation of multimedia electronic publications, multimedia conferencing systems, multimedia databases, and content-based retrieval. This book can serve as a textbook for undergraduate students in general universities and colleges taking the course "Fundamentals and Applications of Multimedia Technology," as well as a reference for students in other vocational colleges and professionals engaged in the research, development, and application of multimedia computer technologies. This book explores multimedia computers from the perspectives of research, development, and application, covering the definition, key technologies, current status, and future trends of multimedia computers; audio and video information acquisition and processing technologies; multimedia data compression and encoding technologies and current international standards for encoding; the hardware and software system architecture of multimedia computers; hypertext and hypermedia technologies; and application technologies of multimedia computers: including the creation of multimedia electronic publications, multimedia conferencing systems, multimedia databases, and content-based retrieval. This book can serve as a textbook for undergraduate students in general universities and colleges taking the course "Fundamentals and Applications of Multimedia Technology," as well as a reference for students in other vocational colleges and professionals engaged in the research, development, and application of multimedia computer technologies.