Multimedia Image and Video Processing P1

[...]... architecture for image processing, multimedia- related image processing techniques, and intelligent multimedia processing; (2) methodologies, techniques, and applications: image and video coding, image and video storage and retrieval, digital video transmission, video conferencing, watermarking, distance education, video on demand, and telemedicine The book begins with the existing standards for multimedia, ... a video standard, and hence bridges computer graphics and image processing ©2001 CRC Press LLC 1.4.4 MPEG-7 MPEG-7 is targeted to produce a standardized description of multimedia material including images, text, graphics, 3D models, audio, speech, analog/digital video, and composition information The standardized description will enable fast and efficient search and retrieval of multimedia content and. .. to multimedia image and video processing, and pointing out possible directions for new standards The design of multimedia architectures is based on the standards It deals with the way visual data is being processed and transmitted at a more practical level Current and new architectures, and their pros and cons, are presented and discussed in Chapters 2 to 4 Chapters 5 to 8 focus on conventional and. .. conventional and intelligent image processing techniques relevant to multimedia, including preprocessing, segmentation, and feature extraction techniques utilized in coding, storage, and retrieval and transmission, media fusion, and graphical interface Compression and coding of video and images are among the focusing issues in multimedia New developments in transform- and motion-based algorithms in... in image and video processing for multimedia An edited compilation is an ideal format for treating a broad spectrum of topics because it provides the opportunity for each topic to be written by an expert in that field The topic of the book is processing images and videos in a multimedia environment It covers the following subjects arranged in two parts: (1) standards and fundamentals: standards, multimedia. .. diagram of video coding 1.4 Emerging Video and Multimedia Standards Most early video coding standards, including H.261, MPEG-1, and MPEG-2, use the same hybrid DCT-MC framework as described in the previous sections, and they have very specific ©2001 CRC Press LLC functionalities and targeted applications The new generation of video coding standards, however, contains many optional modes and supports... standards activities In Section 1.3, we review the fundamentals of video coding In Section 1.4, we study recent video and multimedia standards, including H.263, H.26L, MPEG-4, and MPEG-7 In Section 1.5, we briefly introduce standards for multimedia communication, focusing on ITU-T H.323 We conclude the chapter with a brief discussion on the trend of multimedia standards (Section 1.6) 1.2 Standards Standards... Ridge, Singapore ©2001 CRC Press LLC Chen, Tsuhan “Emerging Standards for Multimedia Applications” Multimedia Image and Video Processing Ed Ling Guan et al Boca Raton: CRC Press LLC, 2001 Chapter 1 Emerging Standards for Multimedia Applications Tsuhan Chen 1.1 Introduction Due to the rapid growth of multimedia communication, multimedia standards have received much attention during the last decade This...13 Video Modeling and Retrieval Yi Zhang and Tat-Seng Chua 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Modeling and Representation of Video: Segmentation vs Stratification 13.2.1 Practical Considerations 13.3 Design of a Video Retrieval System 13.3.1 Video Segmentation 13.3.2 Logging of Shots 13.3.3 Modeling the Context between Video Shots 13.4 Retrieval and Virtual Editing of Video 13.4.1 Video Shot Retrieval... Learning Sachin G Deshpande, Jenq-Neng Hwang, and Ming-Ting Sun 17.1 Introduction 17.2 Interactive Virtual Classroom Distance Learning Environment 17.2.1 Handling the Electronic Slide Presentation 17.2.2 Handling Handwritten Text 17.3 Multimedia Features for On-Demand Distance Learning Environment 17.3.1 Hypervideo Editor Tool 17.3.2 Automating the Multimedia Features Creation for On-Demand System 17.4 Issues