High-Quality Visual Experience

High-Quality Visual Experience
Author: Marta Mrak
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2010-09-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642128025

Last few years have seen rapid acceptance of high-definition television (HDTV) technology around the world. This technology has been hugely successful in delivering more realistic television experience at home and accurate imaging for professional applications. Adoption of high definition continues to grow as consumers demand enhanced features and greater quality of content. Following this trend, natural evolution of visualisation technologies will be in the direction of fully realistic visual experience and highly precise imaging. However, using the content of even higher resolution and quality is not straightforward as such videos require significantly higher access bandwidth and more processing power. Therefore, methods for radical reduction of video bandwidth are crucial for realisation of high visual quality. Moreover, it is desirable to look into other ways of accessing visual content, solution to which lies in innovative schemes for content delivery and consumption. This book presents selected chapters covering technologies that will enable greater flexibility in video content representation and allow users to access content from any device and to interact with it.

Quality of Experience

Quality of Experience
Author: Sebastian Möller
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2014-07-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 331902681X

This pioneering book develops definitions and concepts related to Quality of Experience in the context of multimedia- and telecommunications-related applications, systems and services and applies these to various fields of communication and media technologies. The editors bring together numerous key-protagonists of the new discipline “Quality of Experience” and combine the state-of-the-art knowledge in one single volume.

Multimedia Quality of Experience (QoE)

Multimedia Quality of Experience (QoE)
Author: Chang Wen Chen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2016-01-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 111848391X

Multimedia Quality of Experience (QoE) Current Status and Future Requirements Multimedia Quality of Experience (QoE): Current Status and Future Requirements discusses the current status of QoE (Quality of Experience) research, providing guidelines on QoE assessment and management practice. Moreover, it covers many different aspects of QoE research, including definitions, standardization (ITU, ETSI, IEEE, IETF), measurement, management, and architectures. In addition, the authors bring together contributions from recognized experts (worldwide) in the area of subjective and objective QoE video assessment. Discusses the current status of QoE research; reporting the latest advances from various standardization bodies Provides guidelines on QoE assessment and management practice Explores methods, means, and architectures of QoE Considers future requirements of QoE

Distributed Computer and Communication Networks

Distributed Computer and Communication Networks
Author: Vladimir Vishnevsky
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2014-03-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319052098

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computer and Communication Networks, DCCN 2013, held in Moscow, Russia, in October 2013. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover the following subjects: computer and communication networks architecture optimization; control in computer and communication networks; performance and QoS evaluation in wireless networks; modeling and simulation of network protocols; queueing theory; wireless IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15, IEEE 802.16 and UMTS (LTE) net-works; RFID technology and its application in intellectual transportation networks; protocols design (MAC, Routing) for centimeter and millimeter wave mesh networks; internet and web applications and services; application integration in distributed information systems.

Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication

Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication
Author: Guangtao Zhai
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 527
Release: 2018-02-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9811081085

This book presents revised selected papers from the 14th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2017, held in Shanghai, China, in November 2017. The 46 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 122 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: image processing; machine learning; quality assessment; social media; telecommunications; video surveillance; virtual reality; computer vision; and image compression.

Quality of Experience Engineering for Customer Added Value Services

Quality of Experience Engineering for Customer Added Value Services
Author: Abdelhamid Mellouk
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2014-07-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1118984331

The main objective of the book is to present state-of-the-art research results and experience reports in the area of quality monitoring for customer experience management, addressing topics which are currently important, such as service-aware future Internet architecture for Quality of Experience (QoE) management on multimedia applications. In recent years, multimedia applications and services have experienced a sudden growth. Today, video display is not limited to the traditional areas of movies and television on TV sets, but these applications are accessed in different environments, with different devices and under different conditions. In addition, the continuous emergence of new services, along with increasing competition, is forcing network operators and service providers to focus all their efforts on customer satisfaction, although determining the QoE is not a trivial task. This book addresses the QoE for improving customer perception when using added value services offered by service providers, from evaluation to monitoring and other management processes.

Multimedia Image and Video Processing

Multimedia Image and Video Processing
Author: Ling Guan
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 828
Release: 2017-12-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1439830878

As multimedia applications have become part of contemporary daily life, numerous paradigm-shifting technologies in multimedia processing have emerged over the last decade. Substantially updated with 21 new chapters, Multimedia Image and Video Processing, Second Edition explores the most recent advances in multimedia research and applications. This edition presents a comprehensive treatment of multimedia information mining, security, systems, coding, search, hardware, and communications as well as multimodal information fusion and interaction. Clearly divided into seven parts, the book begins with a section on standards, fundamental methods, design issues, and typical architectures. It then focuses on the coding of video and multimedia content before covering multimedia search, retrieval, and management. After examining multimedia security, the book describes multimedia communications and networking and explains the architecture design and implementation for multimedia image and video processing. It concludes with a section on multimedia systems and applications. Written by some of the most prominent experts in the field, this updated edition provides readers with the latest research in multimedia processing and equips them with advanced techniques for the design of multimedia systems.

Wireless and Satellite Systems

Wireless and Satellite Systems
Author: Prashant Pillai
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2015-10-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319254790

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Wireless and Satellite Services, WiSATS 2015, held in Bradford, UK, in July 2015. The conference was formerly known as the International Conference on Personal Satellite Services (PSATS) mainly covering topics in the satellite domain. As the scope of the conference widened to include wireless systems, the conference was renamed to WiSATS. The 29 revised papers were presented at the conference in three technical sessions and one special session on “Network Coding for Satellites”. WiSATS 2015 also hosted two workshops along with the main conference: The first workshop, Communication Applications in Smart Grid (CASG 2015), focused on the merging area of using communication technology within the electricity power grid for smart monitoring and control. The second workshop, Advanced Next-Generation Broadband Satellite Systems (BSS 2015), focused on the use of satellite systems for providing next-generation broadband services.

Streaming Media Architectures, Techniques, and Applications: Recent Advances

Streaming Media Architectures, Techniques, and Applications: Recent Advances
Author: Zhu, Ce
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2010-09-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1616928336

"This book spans a number of interdependent and emerging topics in streaming media, offering a comprehensive collection of topics including media coding, wireless/mobile video, P2P media streaming, and applications of streaming media"--Provided by publisher.

Uncoded Multimedia Transmission

Uncoded Multimedia Transmission
Author: Feng Wu
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2021-07-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 100040868X

An uncoded multimedia transmission (UMT) system is one that skips quantization and entropy coding in compression and all subsequent binary operations, including channel coding and bit-to-symbol mapping of modulation. By directly transmitting non-binary symbols with amplitude modulation, the uncoded system avoids the annoying cliff effect observed in the coded transmission system. This advantage makes uncoded transmission more suited to both unicast in varying channel conditions and multicast to heterogeneous users. Particularly, in the first part of Uncoded Multimedia Transmission, we consider how to improve the efficiency of uncoded transmission and make it on par with coded transmission. We then address issues and challenges regarding how to better utilize temporal and spatial correlation of images and video in the uncoded transmission, to achieve the optimal transmission performance. Next, we investigate the resource allocation problem for uncoded transmission, including subchannel, bandwidth and power allocation. By properly allocating these resources, uncoded transmission can achieve higher efficiency and more robust performance. Subsequently, we consider the image and video delivery in MIMO broadcasting networks with diverse channel quality and varying numbers of antennas across receivers. Finally, we investigate the cases where uncoded transmission can be used in conjunction with digital transmission for a balanced efficiency and adaptation capability. This book is the very first monograph in the general area of uncoded multimedia transmission written in a self-contained format. It addresses both the fundamentals and the applications of uncoded transmission. It gives a systematic introduction to the fundamental theory and concepts in this field, and at the same time, also presents specific applications that reveal the great potential and impacts for the technologies generated from the research in this field. By concentrating several important studies and developments currently taking place in the field of uncoded transmission in a single source, this book can reduce the time and cost required to learn and improve skills and knowledge in the field. The authors have been actively working in this field for years, and this book is the final essence of their years of long research in this field. The book may be used as a collection of research notes for researchers in this field, a reference book for practitioners or engineers, as well as a textbook for a graduate advanced seminar in this field or any related fields. The references collected in this book may be used as further reading lists or references for the readers.