PREVIOUS EDITION
This textbook introduces the “Fundamentals of Multimedia”, addressing real issues commonly faced in the workplace. The essential concepts are explained in a practical way to enable students to apply their existing skills to address problems in multimedia. Fully revised and updated, this new edition now includes coverage of such topics as 3D TV, social networks, high-efficiency video compression and conferencing, wireless and mobile networks, and their attendant technologies.
Features: presents an overview of the key concepts in multimedia, including color science; reviews lossless and lossy compression methods for image, video and audio data; examines the demands placed by multimedia communications on wired and wireless networks; discusses the impact of social media and cloud computing on information sharing and on multimedia content search and retrieval; includes study exercises at the end of each chapter; provides supplementary resources for both students and instructors at an associated website.
Part I: Introduction and Multimedia Data Representations.- Introduction
to Multimedia.- A Taste of Multimedia.- Graphics and Image Data
Representations.- Color in Image and Video.- Fundamental Concepts in Video.-
Basics of Digital Audio.- Part II: Multimedia Data Compression.- Lossless
Compression Algorithms.- Lossy Compression Algorithms.- Image Compression
Standards.- Basic Video Compression Techniques.- MPEG Video Coding: MPEG-1,
2, 4 and 7.- Modern Video Coding Standards: H.264, H.265, and H.266.- Basic
Audio Compression Techniques.- MPEG Audio Compression.- Part III: Multimedia
Communications and Networking.- Network Services and Protocols for Multimedia
Communications.- Internet Multimedia Content Distribution.- Multimedia over
Wireless and Mobile Networks.- Cloud Computing for Multimedia Services.- Part
IV: Human-Centric Interactive Multimedia.- Online Social Media Sharing.-
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality.- Content-Based Retrieval inDigital
Libraries.- Cloud Computing for Multimedia Services.
Drs. Ze-Nian Li, Mark S. Drew, and Jiangchuan Liu are Professors in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
