Multimedia: System Architectures and Applications

ISBN-13: 9783642850486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 253 str.

Jose L. Encarnacao; James D. Foley

Opis

Multimedia computing is a logical next step by which computing technology will become ever more useful and ubiquitous in our everyday lives. From the perspective of technical challenges, multimedia affects nearly every aspect of computer hardware and software. The long-heralded marriage of computing, communications, and information services is now being consummated, and is manifesting itself in literally dozens of new alliances between companies ranging from semiconductors to cable TV, from newspapers and telephone companies to computer hardware and software.

Spis treści

First Section.- Group I Report: Authoring Systems.- Group H Report: Multimedia Systems Architectures.- Group III Report: Digital Video in Multimedia Systems.- Second Section.- Co-operative Multimedia on Heterogeneous Platforms.- Distributed Multimedia Solutions from the HeiProjects.- Database Management for Multimedia Applications.- Towards the Modelling of Multimedia Environments: From the Image/Audio Signals to the Documents.- Integration of Motion Video into Multimedia Computers.- A Modeling/Programming Framework for Large Media-Integrated Applications.- The Next Generation of Distributed Multimedia Systems.- Third Section.- Finegrained Synchronisation in Dynamic Documents.- Designing Multimedia User Interfaces by Direct Composition.- Using Conceptual Maps in Hypermedia.- Word and Image in Multimedia.

O autorze

The book contains the proceedings of the first Dagstuhl Workshop on Multimedia. The purpose of this workshop was to bring together a small group of multimedia computing researchers who would on one hand identify research issues and agendas and on the other hand report on current research. The material in this book is organized into three sections. The first section contains reports on three subject areas: Authoring Systems, Multimedia Systems Architectures, and Digital Video in Multimedia Systems. The other two sections are collections of related papers. The first one concerns system architecture issues, and focusses on internal system matters such as multimedia databases and networking support for multimedia. The second collection of papers concerns multimedia documents and interfaces.