As multimedia applications have become part of contemporary daily life, numerous paradigm-shifting technologies in multimedia processing have emerged over the last decade. Substantially updated with 21 new chapters, this second edition explores the most recent advances in multimedia research and applications. Written by some of the most prominent experts in the field, the book presents a comprehensive treatment of multimedia information mining, security, systems, coding, search, hardware, and communications as well as multimodal information fusion and interaction.

Dr. Ling Guan is a Tier I Canada research chair in multimedia and computer technology and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Ryerson University. Dr. Guan is a fellow of the IEEE, the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He earned a PhD from the University of British Columbia. His research areas encompass image and multimedia signal processing and communications.

Dr. Yifeng He is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University. Dr. He is the associate editor of the International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting and the Journal of Communications and Information Sciences. He earned a PhD from Ryerson University. His research interests include P2P video streaming, wireless video streaming, and resource allocation for multimedia communications.

Dr. Sun-Yuan Kung is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. Dr. Kung is a fellow of the IEEE and editor-in-chief of the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems. He has authored or coauthored more than 400 technical publications and numerous textbooks. His research areas include VLSI array processors, system modeling and identification, machine learning, wireless communication, sensor array processing, multimedia signal processing, and genomic signal processing and data mining.

Fundamentals of Multimedia. Methodology, Techniques, and Applications: Coding of Video and Multimedia Content. Methodology, Techniques, and Applications: Multimedia Search, Retrieval, and Management. Methodology, Techniques, and Applications: Multimedia Security. Methodology, Techniques, and Applications: Multimedia Communications and Networking. Methodology, Techniques, and Applications: Architecture Design and Implementation for Multimedia Image and Video Processing. Methodology, Techniques, and Applications: Multimedia Systems and Applications. Index.