Appropriate for all students in courses on advanced multimedia technology. Multimedia Fundamentals, Volume 1 is a comprehensive update of the authors' 1995 book, which has become the world's standard textbook in advanced multimedia. This new edition introduces today's state-of-the-art in media coding and content processing, presenting realistic examples and projects that will help students build multimedia systems with unprecedented performance. Leading multimedia researchers Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Nahrstedt review ...
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Appropriate for all students in courses on advanced multimedia technology. Multimedia Fundamentals, Volume 1 is a comprehensive update of the authors' 1995 book, which has become the world's standard textbook in advanced multimedia. This new edition introduces today's state-of-the-art in media coding and content processing, presenting realistic examples and projects that will help students build multimedia systems with unprecedented performance. Leading multimedia researchers Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Nahrstedt review the fundamental characteristics of digital audio, images, video, graphics and animation; demonstrate powerful new content analysis and compression techniques; and share expert insight into crucial system and end-user issues.
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