Intelligent Multimedia Communication: Techniques and Applications (Studies in Computational Intelligence (280))

Multimedia data are used more and more widely in human being's life, e.g., videoconferencing, visual telephone, IPTV, etc. Nearly most of the applications need multimedia transmission techniques that send multimedia data from one side to another side and keep the properties of efficiency, robustness and security. Here, the efficiency denotes the time cost of transmission operations, the robustness denotes the ability to survive transmission errors or noises, and the security denotes the protection of the transmitted media content. Recently, various intelligent or innovative techniques are invented, which bring vast performance improvements to practical applications. For example, such content transmission techniques as p2p, sensor network and ad hoc network are constructed, which adaptively use the peers ́ properties to improve the network ́ s resources. Multimedia adaptation techniques can adjust the multimedia data rate in order to compliant with the network ́ s bandwidth. Scalable encryption techniques can generate the data stream that can be correctly decrypted after bit rate conversion. Ubiquitous multimedia services make the user share any kind of content anywhere. The book includes fourteen chapters highlighting current concepts, issues and emerging technologies. Distinguished scholars from many prominent research institutions around the world contribute to the book. The book covers various aspects, including not only some fundamental knowledge and the latest key techniques, but also typical applications and open issues. For example, the covered topics include the present and future video coding standards, stereo and multiview coding techniques, free-viewpoint TV techniques, wireless broadcasting techniques, media streaming techniques, wireless media transmission techniques and systems, and User-Generated Content sharing Front Matter....Pages - Rate Control and Error Resilience for Object-Based Video Coding....Pages 1-50 Representation and Coding Formats for Stereo and Multiview Video....Pages 51-73 Present and Future Video Coding Standards....Pages 75-124 AVS Video Coding Standard....Pages 125-166 A Resolution Adaptive Video Compression System....Pages 167-194 Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems....Pages 195-215 Topology Construction and Resource Allocation in P2P Live Streaming....Pages 217-251 Intelligent Video Network Engineering with Distributed Optimization: Two Case Studies....Pages 253-290 Media Coding for Streaming in Networks with Source and Path Diversity....Pages 291-316 Peer-Assisted Media Streaming: A Holistic Review....Pages 317-340 FTV (Free-Viewpoint TV)....Pages 341-365 UGC Video Sharing: Measurement and Analysis....Pages 367-402 Terrestrial Television Broadcasting in China: Technologies and Applications....Pages 403-423 Network Topology Inference for Multimedia Streaming....Pages 425-441 Resolution-Improvement Scheme for Wireless Video Transmission....Pages 443-464 Human-Centered Face Computing in Multimedia Interaction and Communication....Pages 465-505 Back Matter....Pages -