• First title to ever present soft computing approaches and their application in data mining, along with the traditional hard-computing approaches
• Addresses the principles of multimedia data compression techniques (for image, video, text) and their role in data mining
• Discusses principles and classical algorithms on string matching and their role in data mining

Your definitive guide to state-of-the-art image compression

With excellent image quality at low bit rate, progressive transmission, scalability, region-of-interest coding, random access, error resilience, and many other salient features, the JPEG2000 standard for scalable image compression is rapidly becoming the cornerstone of today’ s innovative multimedia industry.

Providing comprehensive and accessible coverage of the new JPEG2000 standard, this timely and authoritative text provides a clear overview of both the theory and principles behind the algorithms, and a solid...