{"product_id":"9781475774665","title":"Multimedia Systems and Applications","description":"\u003ch1\u003eMultimedia Systems and Applications\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eKalva, Hari\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDelivering MPEG-4 Based Audio-Visual Services\u003c\/em\u003e  investigates the different aspects of end-to-end multimedia services;  content creation, server and service provider, network, and the  end-user terminal. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cem\u003ePart I\u003c\/em\u003e provides a comprehensive introduction to digital video  communications, MPEG standards, and technologies, and deals with  system level issues including standardization and interoperability,  user interaction, and the design of a distributed video server.  \u003cem\u003ePart\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eII\u003c\/em\u003e investigates the systems in the context of  object-based multimedia services and presents a design for an  object-based audio-visual terminal, some of these features having been  adopted by the MPEG-4 Systems specification. The book goes on to study  the requirements for a file format to represent object-based  audio-visual content and the design of one such format. The design  introduces new concepts such as direct streaming that are essential  for scalable servers. The final part of the book examines the delivery  of object-based multimedia presentations and gives optimal algorithms  for multiplex-scheduling of object-based audio-visual presentations,  showing that the audio-visual object scheduling problem is NP-complete  in the strong sense. The problem of scheduling audio-visual objects is  similar to the problem of sequencing jobs on a single machine. The  book compares these problems and adapts job-sequencing results to  audio-visual object scheduling, and provides optimal algorithms for  scheduling presentations under resource constraints, such as bandwidth  (network constraints) and buffer (terminal constraints). In addition,  the book presents algorithms that minimize the resources required for  scheduling presentations and the auxiliary capacity required to  support interactivity in object-based audio-visual presentations.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cem\u003eDelivering MPEG-4 Based Audio-Visual Services\u003c\/em\u003e is essential  reading for researchers and practitioners in the areas of multimedia  systems engineering and multimedia computing, network professionals,  service providers, and all scientists and technical managers  interested in the most up-to-date MPEG standards and technologies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2013-03-17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781475774665\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/b116315\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 106\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265569771660,"sku":"9781475774665","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781475774665.jpg?v=1770784773","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781475774665","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}