Encyclopedia of Multimedia (2^nd Ed., 2nd ed. 2008)

This second edition provides easy access to important concepts, issues and technology trends in the field of multimedia technologies, systems, techniques, and applications. Over 1,100 heavily-illustrated pages ? including 80 new entries ? present concise overviews of all aspects of software, systems, web tools and hardware that enable video, audio and developing media to be shared and delivered electronically.

New topics include: 3D video compression and 3D content-based search.- MPEG-7, MPEG-21, and H.264.- Detection of high-level concepts in multimedia.- Multimedia content personalization.- Multimedia content adaptation.- Context-based arithmetic coding.- Adaptive joint source-channel coding.- Visual information retrieval.- Metadata standards.- Large scale multimedia streaming.- Image quality evaluation.- Color-mapped images.- Video stabilization.- Tracking and recognition for broadcast video.- Haptics in virtual reality and multimedia.- Object-based multimedia storage systems.- Security for multimedia applications.

Updated with 80 new entries

10 new Editorial Board members, plus new contributors