MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY FOR APPLICATIONS

"This single, expertly-written volume brings you in-depth, interdisciplinary coverage of today's state-of-the-art multimedia technology--the combined work of more than 20 leaders in the field. With an emphasis on consumer electronics, the contributing authors to MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY FOR APPLICATIONS present the very latest advances in signal processing, communications and networking, computer databases, and circuits and systems as they relate to multimedia technology and applications. Topics covered include: multimedia systems; standards, and trends; submicro electronic enabling technologies; digital library servers; networking; multimedia signal processing and applications.MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY FOR APPLICATIONS is thoughtfully structured and complete with numerous figures and examples, making it of key interest to advanced student engineers and managers in industry, as well as professional engineers in need of a current, practical resource."

Sponsored by:
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Council/Society.

About the Editors...
Bing Sheu is professor in the Electrical Engineering Department and Chair of Colloquium Series and Publications at Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at the University of Southern California. He has published more than 180 papers in international scientific and technical journals and conferences, and is co-editor of Microsystems Technology for Multimedia (IEEE Press, 1995). In addition, Dr. Sheu is the editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems.
Mohammed Ismail is professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Ohio State University. Dr. Ismail has authored numerous publications in VLSI circuit design and signal processing, and has been awarded several patents in the area of analog VLSI. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Analog ICs and Signal Processing from Kluwer Academic Publishers, and is a Fellow of IEEE.

List of Contributors.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Multimedia in the View of the Younger Generation.

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS, STANDARDS, AND TRENDS.

Current and Future Trends in Multimedia Standards.

Multimedia Technologies and VLSI Systems.

Introduction to Research on Multimedia Techniques in Telecommunication Laboratories.

SUBMICRON ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGIES.

Memory Architectures Technology for Multimedia Systems.

Advanced CMOS Imaging.

CAD of Multimedia Systems.

DIGITAL LIBRARY AND SERVERS.

The Teradata SQL3 Multimedia Database Server.

Video Indexing and Retrieval.

Content-Based Image Retrieval--Research Issues.

Data Storage and Retrieval in Disk-Array-Based Video Servers.

NETWORKING.

High-Speed LAN, MAN, and ATM Protocols as Multimedia Carriers.

High-Speed Optical Interconnect for Multimedia Systems.

Networks for the Professional Campus Environment.

MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING AND APPLICATIONS.

Intelligent Speech/Audio Processing for Multimedia Applications.

Speech Recognition in Multimedia Human-Machine Interfaces Using Neural Networks.

Handwritten Recognition for the Multimedia Human-Machine Interace.

Hardwarem Design for 3-D Graphics.

Virtual Worlds as Fuzzy Dynamical Systems.

Multimedia Visual Telephone System.

Advanced Techniques in Audio-Visual Interaction.

Index.

About the Editors.