Intelligent Integrated Media Communication Techniques COST 254 & COST 276 [Paperback]

This volume contains many examples and applied methods explaining the basic architecture of the mobile terminals. It includes sufficient introductory material to enabling even non-expert readers to understand the topics and to make a step towards system integration of complex future applications.

Current digital technology in the area of fixed and mobile personal terminals offers many advantages and promises a lot of amazing services in the near future. The expected digital mobile terminal technologies are driving the development of new and challenging user-oriented services.
Intelligent Integrated Media Communication Techniques contains many examples and applied methods explaining the basic architecture of the mobile terminals. It contains sufficient introductory material enabling also non-expert readers to understand the topics and to make a step towards system integration of complex future applications.
Intelligent Integrated Media Communication Techniques is to stimulate developers, researchers, and marketing specialists for new and critical technologies and system concepts, which can be applied in intelligent personal terminals. All those participating in the area like service providers, consumer electronics designers and researchers from industrial development labs and from academia are invited to find practical approaches and concepts for easier design of mobile intelligent personal terminals.
The chapters are thematically grouped. Part I is devoted to Hypermedia data management, dealing with multimedia information organization methods for classification, indexation, storage, and retrieval purposes. Part II handles the robust data hiding methods. The advent of wireless wideband data communication stimulates a renewed interest in video and still image coding is covered in Part III. Voice-driven interfaces, speech coding, and speech recognition are addressl.