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R E V I E W S desired digital videos in a distributed environment. The overall system architecture, its operations, and implementation details are discussed. Approaches to contentbased video data modeling and retrieval as well as time-dependent data support for audio and video data are described. Each of the remaining ï¬ve chapters discusses a speciï¬c multimedia application. Chapter 5 by B. Falchuk and A. Karmouch describes a multimedia news system developed at the University of Ottawa. The overall system architecture is outlined and the tools and facilities associated with the system are explained. R. Rada discusses multimedia and hypermedia courseware design issues in Chap. 6. The focus is on the coordination and reuse issues in the development of multimedia and hypermedia courseware. The key features of MITâs Athena project, the OSCAR project funded by the European Union, and a couple of commercial systems are described. Chapter 7, contributed by B. Furht, D. Kalra, and A.A. Rodriguez, is concerned with the interactive television ITV systems. Key topics discussed in this chapter include a general architecture for ITV services, the network topologies and technologies, and the functions and architecture of a set-top box. Multimedia messaging systems are the topic of Chap. 9 authored by T-Y Hou, A. Pizano, and A. Hsu. Issues pertinent to multimedia message or e-mail composition, delivery, processing, storage, and retrieval are discussed. The last chapter by J. Ford et al. discusses interactive multimedia publications IMMpubs based on their experiences in creating electronic conference proceeding and other publications. The key steps and issues in the design of IMMpubs are discussed and the features needed to support IMMpubs are described. In summary, this book covers a wide spectrum of multimedia tools and applications. For each application, the key issues and approaches to resolve them are discussed. Multimedia systems and application developers will ï¬nd this book as a good source of information on how to design and develop multimedia applications. Researchers will ï¬nd this book a good ref- Multimedia Tools and Applications Borko Furht, Ed. 395 pages. ISBN 0-79239721-5. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands 1996 $103 hardbound. Reviewed by Rajiv Mehrotra, Image Research and Advanced Development, Imaging Science Division, Eastman Kodak Company, 1700 Dewey Avenue, Rochester, New York 14650-1816. The advances in computer hardware, software, and network technologies during the last decade have provided the ability to store, process, display, and communicate continuous media data e.g., audio and video as well as discrete media data. This gave birth to the multimedia technology which has eliminated the limitations of the traditional text-based information processing and communication. Computer systems and applications that involve integrated processing, display, or communication of multiple media data are rapidly emerging. Several key technical issues need to be resolved in the design and development of multimedia systems and applications. These include storage, manipulation, and management of huge amount of data, integration of different types of media, and strict time bound computing. Tools and techniques that effectively resolve these and other technical challenges of multimedia computing and communication are essentially needed to develop sophisticated multimedia applications. This book, Multimedia Tools and Applications, is an edited collection of ten chapters covering a set of selected multimedia application development techniques and some key applications. The multimedia application development techniques are the focus of the ï¬rst four chapters. Speciï¬c techniques for multimedia application development, content-based image data modeling and retrieval, interactive identiï¬cation and delivery of digital video and audio in a distributed system, and the modelbased segmentation of digital video are discussed in these chapters. The remaining six chapters describe selected multimedia applications, which include interactive multimedia news, multimedia education and training, digital video libraries, interactive television systems, multimedia messaging systems, and interactive multimedia publishing systems. This book is suited as reading for multimedia system and application developers. It assumes that the reader is familiar with the basic concepts of multimedia computing and communications. Most of the chapters of this book are either previously published journal articles or extended versions of previously published magazine or conference articles. A brief summary of the content of the book follows. A wide spectrum of multimedia applications require the interactive presentation of several media types. The evolutionary nature of multimedia environment poses major complexities in the development of such applications. Platforms are developed between the application and the environment for environment-independent application development. The platform approach offers a uniform authoring approach as well as a set of services for run-time support. The ï¬rst chapter, authored by J. Bates and J. Bacon of the University of Cambridge, discusses the tools and techniques pertinent to the platform approach. Effective management of a large visual data collection e.g., images and digital video data essentially requires contentbased data modeling and retrieval techniques. Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 8 are concerned with large imagery database organization, manipulation, and management issues. In the second chapter, A. Petland, R.W. Picard, and S. Sclaroff of the MIT Media Laboratory describe a content-based image database manipulation system called Photobook. Approaches to appearance-based, two-dimensional shape-based, and texturebased image representation and search are discussed. A key step in video data management is the content-based temporal segmentation of a video. An automatic approach to video segmentation that utilizes production edit models to detect edit locations is described in Chap. 4 by A. Hampapur, R. Jain, and T.E. Weymouth. The Informedia digital video library project of Carnegie Mellon University is the main focus of Chap. 8, which is authored by M. Christel et al. Informedia utilizes audio as well as image data processing techniques for video segmentation. Speech recognition and natural language processing techniques are utilized for content-based video data retrieval. Chapter 3, by T. Little et al. of Boston University, describes a system for interactive location, identiï¬cation, and delivery of 386 / Journal of Electronic Imaging / July 1997 / Vol. 6(3) B O O K R E V I E W erence book, which covers a variety of important topics. Rajiv Mehrotra received the BTech degree in electrical engineering from Kanpur University, India, an MTech degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, and the MA and PhD degrees in computer science from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. He is currently with the Imaging Science Division of Eastman Kodak Company leading research and development activities in the area of visual information management. His prior employ- ments include faculty positions at the University of Missouri, Saint Louis, the University of Kentucky, Lexington, and the University of South Florida, Tampa. His current research interests are multimedia information management and visual data processing and analysis. He has coedited the book, Handbook of Multimedia Information Systems, published by Prentice Hall (PTR) in 1997. He was a co-guest editor of a special section of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering on Multimedia Information Systems (August 1993). He also co-guest edited a special issue of IEEE Computer on Image Database Management (December 1989). He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. Publisherâs note: In the April 1997 issueâs book review of MPEG Video Compression Standard, reviewed by Glen G. Langdon, the correction ââChiariglione, Convenor of ISO/IEC/JTC/SC29/WG11 MPEG ,ââ should be made in the ï¬rst paragraph, as the reviewer originally wrote. The publisher regrets this error. Journal of Electronic Imaging / July 1997 / Vol. 6(3) / 387
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Published: Jul 1, 1997
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