Multimedia Fundamentals, Volume 1 : Media Coding and Content Processing
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The first volume of Multimedia Fundamentals is a comprehensive update of theauthors\\\' 1995 book, which has become the world\\\'s standard textbook in advancedmultimedia. This new edition introduces today\\\'s state-of-the-art in media codingand content processing, presenting realistic examples and projects that willhelp students build multimedia systems with unprecedented performance. Leadingmultimedia researchers Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Nahrstedt review the fundamentalcharacteristics of digital audio, images, video, graphics and animation;demonstrate powerful new content analysis and compression techniques; and shareexpert insight into crucial system and end-user issues.