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Informationen zum Autor A. C. M. Fong is an associate professor in the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and an accredited imaging scientist who has authored over 60 published papers in journals and conference proceedings 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. Klappentext 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 fieldMultimedia 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. Zusammenfassung 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 fieldMultimedia 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. The Dawn of a New Age ¿ The Information Age. 1. The Information Age and this Book. 2. The internet, World Wide Web and Multimedia. 2.1 The Internet. 2.2 The World Wide Web. 2.3 Multimedia. 3. Organization Chapter 3. The Internet As An Information Repository. 1. Introduction 2. Current Status, Promises and Challenges. 3. Search Engines 3.1 Indexing 13 3.2 Retrieval 3.3 Meta Search Engines 3.4 Non-Technical Limitations of Search Engine 4. Personalized Monitoring Services Current We...
