ABSTRACT

Multimedia stands as one of the most challenging and exciting aspects of the information era. Although there are books available that deal with various facets of multimedia, the field has urgently needed a comprehensive look at recent developments in the systems, processing, and applications of image and video data in a multimedia environment.
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STANDARDS, ARCHITECTURE, AND FUNDAMENTALS: Emerging Standards for Multimedia Applications; An Efficient Algorithm and Architectures for Real-Time Perspective Image Warping; Application Specific Multimedia Processor Architecture; Super-Resolution of Images with Multiple Reconstruction Kernels; Image Processing Techniques for Multimedia Processing; Intelligent Multimedia Processing; On Independent Component Analysis of Multimedia Signals; Image Analysis and Graphics for Multimedia Presentation. TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS: Combined Motion Estimation and Transform Coding in Compressed Domain; Object-Based Analysis-Synthesis Coding Based on Moving 3D Objects; Rate-Distortion Techniques in Image and Video Coding; Transform Domain Techniques for Multimedia Image and Video Coding; Video Modeling and Retrieval; Image Retrieval in Frequency Domain using DCT Coefficient Histograms; Rapid Similarity Retrieval from Image and Video; Video Transcoding; Multimedia Distance Learning; A New Watermarking Technique for Multimedia Protection; Telemedicine: A Multimedia Communication Perspective.