Multimedia Systems
Subtitle: Delivering, Generating and Interacting with Multimedia
By: by Tim Morris
Series: Applied Computing, 1431-1542; Applied computing
Publisher: Springer London; Imprint; Springer
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781447104551
Description: This book not only equips you to design multimedia delivery systems, but also gives you a feel for what multimedia computers could be doing in 3 or 5 years time. Tim Morris introduces the reader to the methods of generating and delivering multimedia, and also gives an overview of current research in the area in order to show the generic tasks multimedia systems will be achieving in the future. The book is divided into 2 parts, discussing how multimedia delivery systems are designed and constructed, and then covering the methods of realising true multimedia computing. Although Multimedia Systems is written to be read alongside a multimedia module of a computer science undergraduate course, it will be of general interest to all those working in multimedia. Supplementary material is provided via the WWW including a summary and source material for project work. http://www.co.umist.ac.uk/~dtm/software.html.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Perception and Data Coding; title: Organising and Delivering Multimedia Objects; title: Hardware to Support Multimedia Systems; title: Multimedia Interactivity; title: Speech Generation; title: Speech Recognition; title: Head Pointing Devices; title: Gesture Recognition; title: Motion Following and Interception; title: Synthesising a Visual Response; title: Conclusions; title: Appendix 1; title: HTML; title: Appendix 2; title: Mathematical Techniques; title: Index.