Risotto

Substantially revised to reflect the rapid evolution of multimedia research, this second edition covers coding of video and multimedia content; multimedia search, retrieval, and management; multimedia security; multimedia communications and networking; hardware design and implementation for multimedia image and video processing; as well as multimedia systems and applications. The text features 21 new chapters addressing such topics as multimedia information mining, multimodal information fusion and interaction, and human-computer interaction. It also discusses issues in wireless multimedia communications, P2P streaming systems and resource optimization for multimedia communications.