Bøger i Multimedia Systems and Applications serien

Advanced Wired and Wireless Networks brings the reader a sample of recent research efforts representative of advances in the areas of recognized importance for the future Internet, such as ad hoc networking, mobility support and performance improvements in advanced networks and protocols.

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.

This volume presents high quality, state-of-the-art research ideas and results from theoretic, algorithmic and application viewpoints. The book specifically focuses on interaction with multimedia content with special emphasis on multimodal interfaces for accessing multimedia information.

Coding and Modulation for Digital Television presents a comprehensive description of all error control coding and digital modulation techniques used in Digital Television (DTV).

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.

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.

In order to establish technical prerequisites for efficient electronic business and education on the Internet, appropriate system support is needed as a vital condition for maximization of both short-term and long-term profits.

Coding and Modulation for Digital Television presents a comprehensive description of all error control coding and digital modulation techniques used in Digital Television (DTV).

As a foreword, here we publish an email letter of Late Professor Herb Simon, Nobel Laureate, that he wrote on the occasion ofthe death of the fatherofa friend.

This volume presents high quality, state-of-the-art research ideas and results from theoretic, algorithmic and application viewpoints. The book specifically focuses on interaction with multimedia content with special emphasis on multimodal interfaces for accessing multimedia information.

The final part of the book examines the delivery of object-based multimedia presentations and gives optimal algorithms for multiplex-scheduling of object-based audio-visual presentations, showing that the audio-visual object scheduling problem is NP-complete in the strong sense.