Recent Advances in Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications

✍ Scribed by Rastislav Lukac (auth.), Mislav Grgic, Kresimir Delac, Mohammed Ghanbari (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 657
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence 231
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The rapid increase in computing power and communication speed, coupled with computer storage facilities availability, has led to a new age of multimedia applications. Multimedia is practically everywhere and all around us we can feel its presence in almost all applications ranging from online video databases, IPTV, interactive multimedia and more recently in multimedia based social interaction. These new growing applications require high-quality data storage, easy access to multimedia content and reliable delivery. Moving ever closer to commercial deployment also aroused a higher awareness of security and intellectual property management issues.

All the aforementioned requirements resulted in higher demands on various areas of research (signal processing, image/video processing and analysis, communication protocols, content search, watermarking, etc.). This book covers the most prominent research issues in multimedia and is divided into four main sections: i) content based retrieval, ii) storage and remote access, iii) watermarking and copyright protection and iv) multimedia applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Color in Multimedia....Pages 1-25
Advances in Video Summarization and Skimming....Pages 27-50
New Video Abstractions for Summarisation and Browsing....Pages 51-71
Multi-dimensional BPTs for Content Retrieval....Pages 73-90
Logarithmic r-θ Map for Hybrid Optical Neural Network Filter for Object Recognition within Cluttered Scenes....Pages 91-120
2D-3D Pose Invariant Face Recognition System for Multimedia Applications....Pages 121-144
Interfaces That Should Feel Right: Natural Interaction with Multimedia Information....Pages 145-170
Super Resolution for Multimedia, Image, and Video Processing Applications....Pages 171-208
Flexible Motion Models for Scalable and High Definition Video Coding....Pages 209-243
Video Transcoding Techniques....Pages 245-270
Cross-Layer Approach for Reliable Transmission of Wavelet Coded Images over Portable Multimedia Devices....Pages 271-294
HD Video Communication at Very Low Bitrates....Pages 295-314
Evolution of IPTV Architecture and Services towards NGN....Pages 315-339
Exploring the Characteristics of High Definition Television Systems....Pages 341-373
Encryption Based Robust Watermarking in Fractional Wavelet Domain....Pages 375-416
Multimedia Encryption: A Brief Overview....Pages 417-449
The Method for Image Copy Detection Robust to Basic Image Processing Techniques....Pages 451-466
An Optimally Robust Digital Watermarking Algorithm for Stereo Image Coding....Pages 467-493
Reversible Watermarking for 3D Cameras: Hiding Depth Maps....Pages 495-521
Audio Watermarking: More Than Meets the Ear....Pages 523-550
A Survey of Music Structure Analysis Techniques for Music Applications....Pages 551-577
Examining the Theoretical Schema of Shimpai Muyou! Narrative Learning Environment....Pages 579-609
Art – A Perfect Testbed for Computer Vision Related Research....Pages 611-629
A Survey of Image Processing Algorithms in Digital Mammography....Pages 631-657
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Communications Engineering, Networks; Signal, Image and Speech Processing; Information Systems and Communication Service