Multimedia Engineering
A Practical Guide for Internet Implementation
RSP Bird
1. Auflage April 2006
286 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Kurzbeschreibung
This book describes the latest advances in the fields of multimedia engineering applied to the Internet and WWW. It examines the use of the internet for (multimedia) information dissemination and gives a detailed background into how the internet has been used to support multimedia communications.
Using worked-through examples, this book gives the reader an insight into many practical engineering problems and solutions.
Multimedia technologies and the internet are increasingly intrinsic to our daily lives, and into the future will continue to transform the way we live. Multimedia Engineering describes the latest advances in this technology applied to the Internet and WWW. It immerses the reader into the development of many practical internet/ multimedia systems, offering an insight into a range of engineering problems and solutions. It provides a broad coverage of internet/WWW and multimedia processing, as well as transmission and practical applications.
* Provides an overview of state-of-the-art technologies
* Addresses commerical, industrial and educational applications and security and privacy issues.
* Offers a detailed background into how the internet has been used to support multimedia communications
* Assumes a practical and descriptive problem-solving approach, featuring many worked-through examples
* Written by widely published authors with years of research in the field
Multimedia Engineering will appeal to graduate and senior undergraduate students in electrical and electronic engineering, industrial, systems & computer engineering. It will also be of interest to electrical, computer and systems engineers and web developers interested in, or already engaged in, this emerging field.
1. The Information Age and this Book.
2. The internet, World Wide Web and Multimedia.
3. Organization
Chapter 3. The Internet As An Information Repository.
1. Introduction
2. Current Status, Promises and Challenges.
3. Search Engines
4. Personalized Monitoring Services
Current Web Monitoring Systems
5. Storage and Retrieval of Visual Data.
6. Case Study: Discovery/Monitoring of Web Publications.
7. Further Advancements.
Chapter 3. The Internet As A Communications Medium.
1. Introduction
2. Internet Communication Protocols
3. Electronic Mail
4 Online Presence Notification and Instant Messaging.
5. Internet Telephony.
6. Video Data Transmission.
7.; Desktop Videoconferencing
8. Unified Messaging.
Chapter 4. Internet Security.
1. Introduction
2. Internet Security 3/4 An Overview
3 Practical Approaches.
4 Security for Java 3/4 An Internet Java Phone Example.
5 Biometrics for Identity Authentication Multi-view Facial Analysis.
Chapter 5. Internet Privacy.
1. Introduction
2 Web Content Filtering Methods and Tools A Survey
3 An Effective Web Content Filtering System
Chapter 6. Commercial And Industrial Applications.
1. Introduction
2. Virtual Electronic Trading For B2b E-Commerce.
3. Web-based Customer Technical Support
4. Knowledge Discovery for Managerial Decisions
5. Web-based Intelligent Surveillance System
Chapter 7. (by G. Y. Hong) Implementing and Delivering Internet and Multimedia Projects.
1. Introduction
2. Process Modeling and Lifecycle
3. Project Planning and Management
4. Design, Implementation and Testing.
5. Measurements
6. Conclusion
Chapter 8. (by B. Fong) From E-Commerce to M-Commerce.
1. Electronic Commerce.
2. Going Mobile
3. Marketing and Mobility.
4. Providing Reliable M-commerce Service is Challenging.
5 Chapter Summary.
Appendix A.
Popular Colour Models.
Appendix B.
Glossary.
Index.
S. C. Hui is an associate professor in the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his D. Phil in 1987 from the University of Sussex, UK. He worked in IBM China/Hong Kong Corporation as a system engineer from 1987 to 1990. His current research interests include data mining, Web mining, Semantic Web, intelligent systems, information retrieval, timetabling and scheduling.
