Bücher der Reihe Multimedia Systems and Applications

This volume introduces machine learning techniques that are particularly powerful and effective for modeling multimedia data and common tasks of multimedia content analysis. Coverage includes examples of unsupervised learning, generative models and discriminative models.

This book covers the MPEG H.264 and MS VC-1 video coding standards as well as issues in broadband video delivery over IP networks. This professional reference is designed for industry practitioners, including video engineers, and professionals in consumer electronics, telecommunications and media compression industries.

Distributed retrieval of multimedia documents, especially the long duration documents, is an imperative step in rendering cost-effective services for network service providers. This work presents research status in the domain of distributed video retrieval. It includes different techniques that are in place for long duration video retrieval.

The unprecedented growth in the range of multimedia services offered these days by modern telecommunication systems has been made possible only because of the advancements in signal processing technologies and algorithms.