Television is a mature mass media with close to eight decades of regular broadcasts since its beginnings in Germany, the UK and the USA. Today, despite the spectacular growth of the Internet and social networks, television is still the leading medium for entertainment and information across the world, exerting an unparalleled influence on public opinion. Until recently television had undergone a rather slow evolution regarding the interaction with its users, yet this is beginning to change. The ongoing trend of digitalization has accelerated the process, and the computational capacity of...
Television is a mature mass media with close to eight decades of regular broadcasts since its beginnings in Germany, the UK and the USA. Today, des...
The authors give a detailed summary about the fundamentals and the historical background of digital communication. This includes an overview of the encoding principles and algorithms of textual information, audio information, as well as images, graphics, and video in the Internet. Furthermore the fundamentals of computer networking, digital security and cryptography are covered. Thus, the book provides a well-founded access to communication technology of computer networks, the internet and the WWW. Numerous pictures and images, a subject-index and a detailed list of historical personalities...
The authors give a detailed summary about the fundamentals and the historical background of digital communication. This includes an overview of the en...
This indispensable text introduces the foundations of three-dimensional computer vision and describes recent contributions to the field. Fully revised and updated, this much-anticipated new edition reviews a range of triangulation-based methods, including linear and bundle adjustment based approaches to scene reconstruction and camera calibration, stereo vision, point cloud segmentation, and pose estimation of rigid, articulated, and flexible objects. Also covered are intensity-based techniques that evaluate the pixel grey values in the image to infer three-dimensional scene structure, and...
This indispensable text introduces the foundations of three-dimensional computer vision and describes recent contributions to the field. Fully revised...
Panoramas have a captivating effect, whether integrated in a personal homepage or professionally used in architecture, in museums or in company or product presentations. Written in a comprehensive, yet easy-to-understand format, this book details all of the necessary steps involved in panoramic photography: from the production of digital and analog picture sequences, "stitching" using software tools (like REALVIZ Stitcher, VR Worx and PanoTools), all the way to publishing interactive panoramas on the Web (e.g., using QuickTime VR, PTViewer, VRML and iPIX). The book introduces the...
Panoramas have a captivating effect, whether integrated in a personal homepage or professionally used in architecture, in museums or in company or ...
This book introduces the TV-Anytime norm, a group of formats and communication protocols allowing development of novel and intelligent services in the audiovisual market. Covers metadata management, customization and personalization, data transfer and more.
This book introduces the TV-Anytime norm, a group of formats and communication protocols allowing development of novel and intelligent services in the...
This comprehensive and instructive guide to the new world of digital communication covers Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI, and ATM as well as wireless LAN technologies, WANs, LTE and mobile data, IPv4 and IPv6 and the most up-to-date security protocols.
This comprehensive and instructive guide to the new world of digital communication covers Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI, and ATM as well as wireless LAN ...
Interactive media require new forms of dramaturgy. Heide Hagebolling develops a new understanding of dramaturgy, "Interactive Dramaturgy," which goes beyond interactive storytelling. Contributions by international multimedia authors, designers, and artists outline concepts and strategies for multimedia productions. These outstanding example projects cover various genres: culture, museum, TV, and education. Interactive media are complex and have multiple dimensions. A linear dramaturgy, therefore, no longer holds. The global connection via Internet fosters further dimensions of exchange and...
Interactive media require new forms of dramaturgy. Heide Hagebolling develops a new understanding of dramaturgy, "Interactive Dramaturgy," which go...
This book presents an overview on fundamentals and the historical background of digital communication. It also covers encoding principles and algorithms of textual information, audio information as well as images, graphics and video in the Internet.
This book presents an overview on fundamentals and the historical background of digital communication. It also covers encoding principles and algorith...
