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FundamentalsofMultimedia,Chapter1Chapter1IntroductiontoMultimedia

1.1WhatisMultimedia?1.2MultimediaandHypermedia1.3WorldWideWeb1.4OverviewofMultimediaSoftwareTools1.5FurtherExploration

1Zhu-Jun XiaoFundamentalsofMultimedia,Chapter11.1WhatisMultimedia?

•Whendifferentpeoplementionthetermmultimedia,theyoftenhavequitedifferent,orevenopposing,viewpoints.

–APCvendor:aPCthathassoundcapability,aDVD-ROMdrive,andperhapsthesuperiorityofmultimedia-enabledmicroprocessorsthatunderstandadditionalmultimediainstructions.

–Aconsumerentertainmentvendor:interactivecableTVwithhun-dredsofdigitalchannelsavailable,oracableTV-likeservicedeliveredoverahigh-speedInternetconnection.

–AComputerScience(CS)student:applicationsthatusemultiplemodalities,includingtext,images,drawings(graphics),animation,video,soundincludingspeech,andinteractivity.

•MultimediaandComputerScience:–Graphics,HCI,visualization,computervision,datacompression,graphtheory,networking,databasesystems.

2Zhu-Jun XiaoFundamentalsofMultimedia,Chapter1ComponentsofMultimedia

•Multimediainvolvesmultiplemodalitiesoftext,audio,im-ages,drawings,animation,andvideo.Examplesofhowthesemodalitiesareputtouse:

1.Videoteleconferencing.2.Distributedlecturesforhighereducation.3.Tele-medicine.4.Co-operativeworkenvironments.5.Searchingin(very)largevideoandimagedatabasesfortargetvisualobjects.

6.“Augmented”reality:placingreal-appearingcomputergraphicsandvideoobjectsintoscenes.

3Zhu-Jun XiaoFundamentalsofMultimedia,Chapter17.Includingaudiocuesforwherevideo-conferencepartici-pantsarelocated.

8.Buildingsearchablefeaturesintonewvideo,andenablingveryhigh-toverylow-bit-rateuseofnew,scalablemulti-mediaproducts.

9.Makingmultimediacomponentseditable.10.Building“inverse-Hollywood”applicationsthatcanre-createtheprocessbywhichavideowasmade.

11.Usingvoice-recognitiontobuildaninteractiveenviron-ment,sayakitchen-wallwebbrowser.

4Zhu-Jun XiaoFundamentalsofMultimedia,Chapter1MultimediaResearchTopicsandProjects

•Tothecomputerscienceresearcher,multimediaconsistsofawidevarietyoftopics:

1.Multimediaprocessingandcoding:multimediacontentanalysis,content-basedmultimediaretrieval,multimediasecurity,audio/image/videoprocessing,compression,etc.

2.Multimediasystemsupportandnetworking:networkprotocols,Internet,operatingsystems,serversandclients,qualityofservice(QoS),anddatabases.

3.Multimediatools,end-systemsandapplications:hy-permediasystems,userinterfaces,authoringsystems.

4.Multi-modalinteractionandintegration:“ubiquity”—web-everywheredevices,multimediaeducationinclud-ingComputerSupportedCollaborativeLearning,andde-signandapplicationsofvirtualenvironments.

5Zhu-Jun XiaoFundamentalsofMultimedia,Chapter1CurrentMultimediaProjects

•Manyexcitingresearchprojectsarecurrentlyunderway.Hereareafewofthem:

1.Camera-basedobjecttrackingtechnology:trackingofthecontrolobjectsprovidesusercontroloftheprocess.

2.3Dmotioncapture:usedformultipleactorcapturesothatmultiplerealactorsinavirtualstudiocanbeusedtoautomaticallyproducerealisticanimatedmodelswithnaturalmovement.

3.Multipleviews:allowingphoto-realistic(video-quality)synthesisofvirtualactorsfromseveralcamerasorfromasinglecameraunderdifferinglighting.

4.3Dcapturetechnology:allowsynthesisofhighlyreal-isticfacialanimationfromspeech.6Zhu-Jun XiaoFundamentalsofMultimedia,Chapter15.Specificmultimediaapplications:aimedathandicappedpersonswithlowvisioncapabilityandtheelderly—arichfieldofendeavor.

6.Digitalfashion:aimstodevelopsmartclothingthatcancommunicatewithothersuchenhancedclothingusingwirelesscommunication,soastoartificiallyenhancehu-maninteractioninasocialsetting.

7.ElectronicHousecallsystem:aninitiativeforprovidinginteractivehealthmonitoringservicestopatientsintheirhomes

8.AugmentedInteractionapplications:usedtodevelopinterfacesbetweenrealandvirtualhumansfortaskssuchasaugmentedstorytelling.

7Zhu-Jun XiaoFundamentalsofMultimedia,Chapter11.2MultimediaandHypermedia

•HistoryofMultimedia:1.Newspaper:perhapsthefirstmasscommunicationmedium,usestext,graphics,andimages.

2.Motionpictures:conceivedofin1830’sinordertoob-servemotiontoorapidforperceptionbythehumaneye.

3.Wirelessradiotransmission:GuglielmoMarconi,atPon-tecchio,Italy,in1895.

4.Television:thenewmediumforthe20thcentury,es-tablishedvideoasacommonlyavailablemediumandhassincechangedtheworldofmasscommunications.

8Zhu-Jun Xiao