Multimedia Engineering

Multimedia technologies and the internet are increasingly intrinsic to our daily lives, and into the future will continue to transform the way we live. <i>Multimedia Engineering</i> describes the latest advances in this technology applied to the Internet and WWW. It immerses the reader into the development of many practical internet/ multimedia systems, offering an insight into a range of engineering problems and solutions. It provides a broad coverage of internet/WWW and multimedia processing, as well as transmission and practical applications. <ul> <li>Provides an overview of state-of-the-art technologies</li> <li>Addresses commerical, industrial and educational applications and security and privacy issues.</li> <li>Offers a detailed background into how the internet has been used to support multimedia communications</li> <li>Assumes a practical and descriptive problem-solving approach, featuring many worked-through examples</li> <li>Written by widely published authors with years of research in the field</li> </ul> <p><i>Multimedia Engineering</i> will appeal to graduate and senior undergraduate students in electrical and electronic engineering, industrial, systems & computer engineering. It will also be of interest to electrical, computer and systems engineers and web developers interested in, or already engaged in, this emerging field.</p>