Multimedia Systems: Delivering, Generating and Interacting with Multimedia

by Tim Morris

1 Introduction.- What are Multimedia Systems?.- Multimedia Delivery Systems.- Multimedia Interactivity.- What Topics does the Book Cover?.- I.- 2 Perception and Data Coding.- Perception of Multimedia Data.- perception of Sound.- Perception of Static Image Data.- Perception of Moving Image Data.- Capture of Multimedia Data.- Capturing Sound.- Capturing Static Image Data.- Capturing Video Data.- Coding Multimedia Data.- Coding Sound.- Coding Still Images.- Coding Video Data.- Coding/Decoding Hardware.- Conclusion.- 3 Organising and Delivering Multimedia Objects.- A Classification of Multimedia Presentations.- What is Required of a Multimedia Presentation Design Tool?.- Characteristics of Practical Design Tools.- Implementing Multimedia Presentations Using HTML.- Good Design Pratice.- Manipulating Multimedia Content.- Conclusion.- 4 Hardware to Support Multimedia Systems.- The Multimedia PC.- Peripheral Devices.- Kiosk Systems.- Conclusions.- II.- 5 Multimedia Interactivity.- The Future of Multimedia Communication Systems.- Theoretical Foundations.- Conclusion.- 6 Speech Generation.- Physiology.- Historical Speech Generating Machines.- Synthesis from Stored Segments.- Synthesis from Rules.- Summary.- 7 Speech Recognition.- Principles Underlying Speech Recognition.- Architecture of a Speech Recognition System.- Representation.- Classification.- Recognition.- Summary.- 8 Head Pointing Devices.- What is a Head Pointing Device?.- Where Would Head Pointing Device Be Used?.- The Video Based Head Pointing Hardware.- Possible Software Solutions.- Conclusions.- 9 Gesture Recognition.- Example Systems.- Requirements.- Identifying and Describing Hands and Fingers in Video Sequences.- Tracking Hands and Fingers in Video Sequences.- Representing Gestures.- Recognising Gestures.- Summary and Conclusions.- 10 Motion Following and Interpretation.- Activity Understanding Systems.- Information Delivery Systems.- Video Surveillance and Monitoring.- Conclusion.- 11 Synthesising a Visual Response.- Feedback.- An Overview of Methods of Generating and Animating.- Head Models.- Facial Animation Systems.- Conclusions.- Conclusions.- The Current State of Multimedia Systems.- What of the Future?.- Appendices.- HTML - Hypertext Markup Language.- Mathematical Techniques.- Publicly Available Software.

208 pages, Paperback

First published August 16, 2000