Multimedia Technologies and Applications for the 21st Century Visions of World Experts /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Furht, Borko (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
• Series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, Multimedia Systems and Applications, 431
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Data structures (Computer science).; Multimedia information systems.; Application software.; Computer Science.; Computer Applications.; Multimedia Information Systems.; Computer Communication Networks.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Computer Science, general.

Multimedia Technologies and Applications for the 21st Century: Visions of World Experts presents contributions from leading researchers and experts describing their current research and their views of the future trends in the field. The book consists of thirteen chapters in five parts. These chapter...

Table of Contents:

• Multimedia Processors
• Processor Architectures for Multimedia
• Multimedia Servers
• DVDs: Much Needed “Shot in the Arm” for Video Servers
• Mitra: A Scalable Continuous Media Server
• Multimedia Caching Strategies for Heterogeneous Application and Server Environments
• Multimedia Databases
• Benchmarking Multimedia Databases
• Four Promising Multimedia Databases and Their Embodiments
• An Annotation Engine for Supporting Video Database Population
• Similarity is a Geometer
• Multimedia Networks
• Concepts for Resource Reservation in Advance
• Improving End System Performance for Multimedia Applications over High Bandwidth Networks
• Multimedia Applications
• Multimedia Applications Development: Experiences
• Multimedia Meets the Internet: Present and Future
• Virtual Sample Processing: Extending the Reach of Multimedia.