Encyclopedia of Multimedia

• New topics include: 3D video compression and 3D content-based search.- MPEG-7, MPEG-21, and H.264.- Detection of high-level concepts in multimedia.- Multimedia content personalization.- Multimedia content adaptation.- Context-based arithmetic coding.- Adaptive joint source-channel coding.- Visual information retrieval.- Metadata standards.- Large scale multimedia streaming.- Image quality evaluation.- Color-mapped images.- Video stabilization.- Tracking and recognition for broadcast video.- Haptics in virtual reality and multimedia.- Object-based multimedia storage systems.- Security for multimedia applications.

From the reviews of the second edition: "The Encyclopedia of Multimedia, second edition, has, as its aim, an in-depth coverage of the important concepts, issues, and technology trends in the field of multimedia technologies, systems, techniques, and applications. The work ... is well illustrated with 565 figures and 51 tables. ... This work is recommended for graduate and post-graduate students of multimedia for whom it will provide useful source and references, and for any organization specialising in the study or design of advanced multimedia devices." (Eric Jukes, Reference Reviews, Vol. 24 (1), 2010)