January 2002
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
7h 54m
English
book
Multimedia Fundamentals Volume 1: Media Coding and Content Processing
by Ralf Steinmetz, Klara Nahrstedt
Overview
The state-of-the-art in multimedia content analysis, media foundations, and compression
Covers digital audio, images, video, graphics, and animation
Includes real-world project sets that help you build and test your expertise
By two of the world's leading experts in advanced multimedia systems development
Generic characteristics of multimedia and data streams, and their impact on multimedia system design
Essential audio concepts and representation techniques: sound perception, psychoacoustics, music, MIDI, Speech signals, and related I/O and transmission issues
Graphics and image characteristics: image formats, analysis, synthesis, reconstruction, and output
Video signals, television formats, digitization, and computer-based animation issues
Fundamental compression methods: run-length, Huffman, and subband coding
Multimedia compression standards: JPEG, H.232, and various MPEG techniques
Optical storage technologies and techniques: CD-DA, CD-ROM, DVD, and beyond
Content processing techniques: Image analysis, video processing, cut detection, and audio analysis
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