Special issues on multimedia communication services

Thomas Sikora, Hong Ren Wu
2001 Circuits, systems, and signal processing  
Emerging and established international standards such as MPEG-4, MPEG-7, H.263, and JPEG-2000 have spurred the development of multimedia services. The Internet, the world wide web, cellular phones, and affordable PCs/laptops have further contributed to this development. Multimedia (audio, text, graphics, images, video, animation, music) play a key role in web-based online services such as teleshopping, e-commerce, banking, stock market transactions, travel, video mail, sports, medicine,
more » ... digital libraries, multimedia kiosks, and distance education/training. Indexing, browsing, and access/retrieval of multimedia in an efficient/effective way is no longer a novelty. Some of these aspects are being addressed in MPEG-7, "Multimedia Content Description Interface" whose primary objective is to facilitate the description, identification, and access of audiovisual data. As web-based online services proliferate, the privacy, security, and authenticity of multimedia transactions are essential. The need for high-quality, reliable, and inexpensive interactive multimedia services is clear.
doi:10.1007/bf01201402 fatcat:2baz2mknife5pazbjkh7hxcfxy