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von Kries Hypothesis
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Chapter
Color in Image and Video
In this chapter, color and color spaces are introduced; without excellent color, images and video would look unacceptable. In the real world, light bounces off surfaces and the resulting spectrum enters the ey...
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Basics of Digital Audio
Audio data has special and unique properties. E.g., while it is useful to occasionally drop a video frame from a stream, we simply cannot do the same with audio information or all sense will be lost from that ...
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Lossy Compression Algorithms
In this chapter we examine compression algorithms such that recovered input data cannot be exactly reconstructed from the compressed version. This is termed “loss”. What we have, then, is a tradeoff between ef...
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MPEG Video Coding: MPEG-1, 2, 4, and 7
In this chapter, we examine the ideas behind the MPEG standards, starting with MPEG-1, -2, and then MPEG-4, and 7. In MPEG-1 and -2, bidirectional search for motion vectors is introduced. Interlaced video and ...
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Basic Audio Compression Techniques
In this chapter, compression of audio information is reviewed, with special consideration paid to speech compression. To begin with, we recall some of the issues covered in Chap. 6
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Network Services and Protocols for Multimedia Communications
Computer communication networks are essential to the modern computing environment we know and have come to rely upon. Multimedia communications and networking share all the major issues and technologies of com...
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Multimedia Over Wireless and Mobile Networks
The rapid developments in computer and communication technologies have made ubiquitous computing a reality. From cordless phones in the early days to later cellular phones, wireless mobile communication has be...
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Content-Based Retrieval in Digital Libraries
This chapter is concerned with finding images or videos from (possibly very large) collections of these. Each type of modality in multimedia information, e.g., text and image, provides its own type of semantic...
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Online Social Media Sharing
Social media, a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content. Such popular Web 2.0-base...
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Introduction to Multimedia
In this chapter, we discuss the uses of the term multimedia since people may have quite different, even opposing, viewpoints on what this means. This textbook is aimed at computer science or engineering studen...
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Graphics and Image Data Representations
In this chapter, we discuss how images are stored, starting off with the simplest image data, one bit per pixel. Grayscale, 8-bit images are considered next, and we consider the problem of how to actually send...
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Fundamental Concepts in Video
In this chapter, we introduce the principal concepts needed to understand video. Here we consider the following aspects of video and how they impact multimedia applications: (1) analog video, (2) digital video...
