Multimedia Technology Basics and Applications (Second Edition)

Author: Zhong Yuzhuo et al.
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: This book explores multimedia computer technology 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 techniques; multimedia data compression and encoding technologies as well as current international standards for encoding; the hardware and software system architecture of multimedia computers; hypertext and hypermedia technologies; and multimedia computer application technologies: multimedia electronic publishing, 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 technology.