As multimedia applications have become part of contemporary daily life, numerous paradigm-shifting technologies in multimedia processing have emerged over the last decade. Substantially updated with 21 new chapters, Multimedia Image and Video Processing, Second Edition explores the most recent advances in multimedia research and applications. This edition presents a comprehensive treatment of multimedia information mining, security, systems, coding, search, hardware, and communications as well as multimodal information fusion and interaction.Clearly divided into seven parts, the book begins with a section on standards, fundamental methods, design issues, and typical architectures. It then focuses on the coding of video and multimedia content before covering multimedia search, retrieval, and management. After examining multimedia security, the book describes multimedia communications and networking and explains the architecture design and implementation for multimedia image and video processing. It concludes with a section on multimedia systems and applications.Written by some of the most prominent experts in the field, this updated edition provides readers with the latest research in multimedia processing and equips them with advanced techniques for the design of multimedia systems.

Dr. Ling Guan is a Tier I Canada research chair in multimedia and computer technology and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Ryerson University. Dr. Guan is a fellow of the IEEE, the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He earned a PhD from the University of British Columbia. His research areas encompass image and multimedia signal processing and communications.

Dr. Yifeng He is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University. Dr. He is the associate editor of the International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting and the Journal of Communications and Information Sciences. He earned a PhD from Ryerson University. His research interests include P2P video streaming, wireless video streaming, and resource allocation for multimedia communications.

Dr. Sun-Yuan Kung is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. Dr. Kung is a fellow of the IEEE and editor-in-chief of the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems. He has authored or coauthored more than 400 technical publications and numerous textbooks. His research areas include VLSI array processors, system modeling and identification, machine learning, wireless communication, sensor array processing, multimedia signal processing, and genomic signal processing and data mining.

Fundamentals of Multimedia
Emerging Multimedia Standards, Huifang Sun
Fundamental Methods in Image Processing, April Khademi, Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos, Alan R. Moody, and Sridhar Krishnan
Application-Specific Multimedia Architecture, Tung-Chien Chen, Tzu-Der Chuang, and Liang-Gee Chen
Multimedia Information Mining, Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang and Ruofei Zhang
Information Fusion for Multimodal Analysis and Recognition, Yongjin Wang, Ling Guan, and Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos
Multimedia-Based Affective Human-Computer Interaction, Yisu Zhao, Marius D. Cordea, Emil M. Petriu, and Thomas E. Whalen

Methodology, Techniques, and Applications: Coding of Video and Multimedia Content
Part Overview: Coding of Video and Multimedia Content, Oscar Au and Bing Zeng
Distributed Video Coding, Zixiang Xiong
Three-Dimensional Video Coding, Anthony Vetro
AVS: An Application-Oriented Video Coding Standard, Siwei Ma, Li Zhang, Debin Zhao, and Wen Gao

Methodology, Techniques, and Applications: Multimedia Search, Retrieval, and Management
Multimedia Search and Management, Linjun Yang, Xian-Sheng Hua, and Hong-Jiang Zhang
Video Modeling and Retrieval, Zheng-Jun Zha, Jin Yuan, Yan-Tao Zheng, and Tat-Seng Chua
Image Retrieval, Lei Zhang and Wei-Ying Ma
Digital Media Archival, Chong-Wah Ngo and Song Tan

Methodology, Techniques, and Applications: Multimedia Security
Part Review on Multimedia Security, Alex C. Kot, Huijuan Yang, and Hong Cao
Introduction to Biometry, Carmelo Velardo, Jean-Luc Dugelay, Lionel Daniel, Antitza Dantcheva, Nesli Erdogmus, Neslihan Kose, Rui Min, and Xuran Zhao
Watermarking and Fingerprinting Techniques for Multimedia Protection, Sridhar Krishnan, Xiaoli Li, Yaqing Niu, Ngok-Wah Ma, and Qin Zhang
Image and Video Copy Detection Using Content-Based Fingerprinting, Mehrdad Fatourechi, Xudong Lv, Mani Malek Esmaeili, Z. Jane Wang, and Rabab K. Ward

Methodology, Techniques, and Applications: Multimedia Communications and Networking
Emerging Technologies in Multimedia Communications and Networking: Challenges and Research Opportunities, Chang Wen Chen
A Proxy-Based P2P Live Streaming Network: Design, Implementation, and Experiments, Dongni Ren, S.-H. Gary Chan, and Bin Wei
Scalable Video Streaming over the IEEE 802.11e WLANs, Chuan Heng Foh, Jianfei Cai, Yu Zhang, and Zefeng Ni
Resource Optimization for Distributed Video Communications, Yifeng He and Ling Guan

Methodology, Techniques, and Applications: Architecture Design and Implementation for Multimedia Image and Video Processing
Algorithm/Architecture Coexploration, Gwo Giun (Chris) Lee, He Yuan Lin, and Sun Yuan Kung
Dataflow-Based Design and Implementation of Image Processing Applications, Chung-Ching Shen, William Plishker, and Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya
Application-Specific Instruction Set Processors for Video Processing, Sung Dae Kim and Myung Hoon Sunwoo

Methodology, Techniques, and Applications: Multimedia Systems and Applications
Interactive Multimedia Technology in Learning: Integrating Multimodality, Embodiment, and Composition for Mixed-Reality Learning Environments, David Birchfield, Harvey Thornburg, M. Colleen Megowan-Romanowicz, Sarah Hatton, Brandon Mechtley, Igor Dolgov, Winslow Burleson, and Gang Qian
Literature Survey on Recent Methods for 2D to 3D Video Conversion, Raymond Phan, Richard Rzeszutek, and Dimitrios Androutsos
Haptic Interaction and Avatar Animation Rendering Centric Telepresence in Second Life, A.S.M. Mahfujur Rahman, S.K. Alamgir Hossain, and A. El Saddik

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