"Explains the transmission of image and video information over wireless channels. Describes MPEG-4, the latest video coding standard. Discusses error resilient combined source channel image and video coders, and multiple access spread spectrum and future... [More...]

This volume presents a complete and thorough examination of advances in the instrumentation, evaluation, and implementation of UV technology for reliable and efficient data acquisition and analysis. It provides real-world applications in expanding fields... [More...]

Offering an overview of the latest advances, Document and Image Compression provides an up-to-date reference of the best performing compression schemes and highlights new research directions. It describes the current state of image coding, examining... [More...]

The growth of the Internet has fueled the demand for enhanced watermarking and data hiding technologies and has stimulated research into new ways to implement watermarking systems in the real world. Watermarking Systems Engineering: Enabling Digital Assets... [More...]

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a growing technique that has the potential to greatly improve medical diagnosis. The challenge of using MRI in medicine rests in the development of new generations of contrast media using targeted nanoparticles to improve... [More...]

Combining information from multiple sources, image fusion provides a more accurate description of a scene than any one of the individual source images alone. Using multiple modalities increases the reliability and overall performance compared to... [More...]

Embedded Processors discusses how to design and analyze multiprocessor computer systems that are streamlined for multimedia applications. This second edition features two new chapters that focus exclusively on dataflow background. The first chapter... [More...]

Highlighting satellite and earth station design, links and communication systems, error detection and correction, and regulations and procedures for system modeling, integrations, testing, and evaluation, Satellite Communication Engineering provides a... [More...]

A study of modulated coding (MC), a technique for intersymbol interference (ISI) mitigation. It discusses MC when the ISI is known at both transmitter and receiver, and when only the receiver knows the ISI. It showcases polynomial antiquity resistant... [More...]

Based on years of instruction and field expertise, this volume offers the necessary tools to understand all scientific, computational, and technological aspects of speech processing. The book emphasizes mathematical abstraction, the dynamics of the speech... [More...]