Multimedia Communication Systems: Techniques, Standards, And Networks

• Networked multimedia: theory, principles, techniques, standards, and examples
• Audio-visual integration, multimedia processing, organization, storage, and retrieval
• Emerging MPEG standards, including MPEG-4, MPEG-7, and MPEG-21
• New solutions for network/traffic management, service deployment, and QoS
• Contains over 200 illustrations and over 400 references

As networks converge and bandwidth availability increases, networked multimedia communications systems are becoming increasingly powerful and ubiquitous. "Multimedia Communication Systems" is a comprehensive guide to the theory, principles, and practical techniques associated with implementing these systems. Three of the field's leading researchers review today's key developments in multimedia communications, ranging from the latest multimedia architectures to the implications of Internet2 for advanced multimedia delivery. They cover every aspect of multimedia communications system development, emphasizing emerging standards, advanced processing techniques, and network/traffic management.

• Networked multimedia systems: models and elements
• Audio-visual integration: media integration, lip synchronization, audio-to-visual mapping, and joint audio-video coding
• Multimedia processing, in depth: perceptual coding; transform and audio subband coders; CD audio coding; image and video coding; and watermarking
• Practical techniques for organization, storage, and retrieval --including advanced neural network processing systems
• All current and emerging MPEGstandards, including MPEG-4, MPEG-7, and MPEG-21
• New approaches to service deployment and ensuring consistent Quality of Service (QoS)

With over 200 figures, more than 400 references, and an exceptionally wide range of practical examples, this book is a unique resource for every professional working with advanced multimedia technologies.

-- Includes extensive coverage of multimedia communications standards and processing techniques.
-- Presents new approaches to traffic management, services deployment, and QoS for networked multimedia systems
-- Contains many practical examples, more than 200 figures, and over 400 references.

As networks converge and bandwidth availability increases, multimedia communications systems are becoming increasingly powerful and widespread. This is a comprehensive guide to the theory, principles, and practical techniques associated with implementing networked multimedia communications systems. The authors, leading researchers in the field, have reflected today's latest developments in multimedia communications -- including new multimedia architectures and the implications of Internet2 for advanced multimedia delivery. This book covers every key aspect of multimedia communications system development, with an emphasis on the management of multimedia services; emerging standards and processing techniques; integration issues; and traffic management. The book's comprehensive coverage of multimedia processing includes perceptual coding; transform and audio subband coders; CD audio coding; image and video coding; watermarking; organization, storage, and retrieval issues; neural network processing solutions, and more. Each current and proposed MPEG standard is covered in detail, including MPEG-4, MPEG-7, and MPEG-21. Part II of the book presents today's best approaches to traffic management, multimedia services deployment, and Quality of Service in networked multimedia environments.