Multimedia Information Storage and Retrieval: Techniques and Technologies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781599042251)

Since multimedia systems are required to store and manipulate a variety of media types -- including text, graphics, images, sound, audio, and video among many others -- applications such as video-on-demand systems, interactive television, and video conferencing are becoming widely available at warp speed. This presents new challenges and obstacles to those in the multimedia industry. Multimedia Information Storage and Retrieval: Techniques and Technologies offers solutions to these challenges, providing data placement techniques, scheduling methods, caching techniques and emerging characteristics of multimedia information. Academicians, students, professionals and practitioners in the multimedia industry will benefit from this ground-breaking publication.

Author: Philip K. C. Tse
ISBN-10: 1599042258
ISBN-13: 9781599042251
Publisher: IGI Global
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2008
Pages: 422
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.12lbs
Size: 10.20h x 7.23w x 1.07d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 06/01/2008 pg. 17