Communication And Computing For Distributed Multimedia Systems

From describing the special demands of multimedia systems, to exploring the integration of multimedia technologies on the internet, this comprehensive book provides communications engineers with a unique examination of the design challenges and future direction of multimedia computing and communications.

Here's the first focused discussion of issues and technology in developing networked multimedia systems. This book includes a unique explanation of color specification and its role in achieving high picture quality, high compression ratio and high information retrieval performance, plus valuable coverage of principles and techniques of multimedia information indexing and retrieval critical for future systems.