"This book covers widespread knowledge and research as well as innovative applications in multimedia communication … systems, highlighting recent techniques that can evolve into future multimedia communication systems and showing experimental …

In the last few years, we have observed an explosive growth of multimedia computing, communications, and applications …, specification, analysis and design of distributed multimedia database systems and multimedia information retrieval are still … by focusing on multimedia database techniques. …

"This handbook provides insight into the field of mobile multimedia and associated applications and services … Model Typology for Mobile Commerce -- 3. Security and Trust in Mobile Multimedia -- 4. Data Dissemination in Mobile …Section 2. Standards and Protocols -- 10. New Internet Protocols for Multimedia Transmission -- 11. Location …

"This handbook is for both secure multimedia distribution researchers and also decision makers in obtaining a greater … understanding of the concepts, issues, problems, trends, challenges and opportunities related to secure multimedia distribution …. Flexible Multimedia Stream Authentication -- 18. Scalable Distribution of Watermarked Media -- 19. Critical Analysis of Digital …

The recent rapid advances in wireless technologies have created a demand for high quality multimedia applications and … services. These advanced multimedia applications give rise to a new set of challenges in providing Quality of Service (QoS … that arise in the delivery of real-time multimedia services over wireless networks. It presents state-of-the-art solutions …

1. Interactive Multimedia MUSICNETWORK: An Introduction / Kia Ng and Paolo Nesi -- 2. MPEG Symbolic Music … Representation: A Solution for Multimedia Music Applications / Pierfrancesco Bellini, Paolo Nesi, and Giorgio Zoia -- 3. XML Music … Notation Modelling for Multimedia: MPEG-SMR / Pierfrancesco Bellini -- 4. Optical Music Imaging: Music Document Digitisation …

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Näkki and Asta Bäck -- 8. A knowledge-based multimedia adaptation management framework for ubiquitous services / Ning Li … multimedia over P2P and experience on multimedia annotation service development / Jiehan Zhou, Mika Rautiainen, Zhonghong Ou and …

.] -- 20. Review of the Virtual World community / Reza Y. Azeharie -- 21. Convenience prevails over homemade: how local and …