Download or read book Intelligent Multimedia Signal Processing for Smart Ecosystems written by Shabir A. Parah and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A smart ecosystem is envisioned to exchange and analyze data across systems, enabling a flexible, faster, and reliable smart ecosystem for high-quality results at reduced costs and little human intervention. This book introduces many innovative approaches and provides solutions to various problems of smart ecosystems designed by employing various techniques/models based on AI, ML, Deep Learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT). The main focus is on intelligent multimedia processing and automated decision-making for various services, real-time data analysis, data security, cost-effective solutions for multimedia applications, smart information processing systems, and smart city planning to name a few. In addition, this book presents some key insights and future directions in the various areas of technology. Throughout the book, many state-of-the-art solutions concerning various applications are proposed to solve the issues and ensure the quality of services (QoS). The authors discuss the limitations of the current techniques used to design a smart ecosystem and highlight some prospective areas of research in the future. The book comprehensively discusses multimedia processing of various forms of data comprising text, images, and audio for the implementation of various solutions. The book is aimed to open many areas of research and thus would present a comprehensive reference for the design of smart ecosystems in various applications.

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Download or read book Future of AI in Medical Imaging written by Sharma, Avinash Kumar and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2024-03-11 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic scholars and professionals are currently grappling with hurdles in optimizing diagnostic processes, as traditional methodologies prove insufficient in managing the intricate and voluminous nature of medical data. The diverse range of imaging techniques, spanning from endoscopy to magnetic resonance imaging, necessitates a more unified and efficient approach. This complexity has created a pressing need for streamlined methodologies and innovative solutions. Academic scholars find themselves at the forefront of addressing these challenges, seeking ways to leverage AI's full potential in improving the accuracy of medical imaging diagnostics and, consequently, enhancing overall patient outcomes. Future of AI in Medical Imaging, stands as a solution to the challenges faced by academic scholars in the realm of medical imaging. The book lays a solid groundwork for understanding the complexities of medical imaging systems. Through an exploration of various imaging modalities, it not only addresses the current issues but also serves as a guide for scholars to navigate the landscape of AI-integrated medical diagnostics. This collaborative effort not only illuminates the existing hurdles of medical imaging but also looks towards a future where AI-driven diagnostics and personalized medicine become indispensable tools, significantly elevating patient outcomes.

Download or read book Multimedia Signal Processing written by Saeed V. Vaseghi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-10-22 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multimedia Signal Processing is a comprehensive and accessible text to the theory and applications of digital signal processing (DSP). The applications of DSP are pervasive and include multimedia systems, cellular communication, adaptive network management, radar, pattern recognition, medical signal processing, financial data forecasting, artificial intelligence, decision making, control systems and search engines. This book is organised in to three major parts making it a coherent and structured presentation of the theory and applications of digital signal processing. A range of important topics are covered in basic signal processing, model-based statistical signal processing and their applications. Part 1: Basic Digital Signal Processing gives an introduction to the topic, discussing sampling and quantization, Fourier analysis and synthesis, Z-transform, and digital filters. Part 2: Model-based Signal Processing covers probability and information models, Bayesian inference, Wiener filter, adaptive filters, linear prediction hidden Markov models and independent component analysis. Part 3: Applications of Signal Processing in Speech, Music and Telecommunications explains the topics of speech and music processing, echo cancellation, deconvolution and channel equalization, and mobile communication signal processing. Covers music signal processing, explains the anatomy and psychoacoustics of hearing and the design of MP3 music coder Examines speech processing technology including speech models, speech coding for mobile phones and speech recognition Covers single-input and multiple-inputs denoising methods, bandwidth extension and the recovery of lost speech packets in applications such as voice over IP (VoIP) Illustrated throughout, including numerous solved problems, Matlab experiments and demonstrations Companion website features Matlab and C++ programs with electronic copies of all figures. This book is ideal for researchers, postgraduates and senior undergraduates in the fields of digital signal processing, telecommunications and statistical data analysis. It will also be a valuable text to professional engineers in telecommunications and audio and signal processing industries.

Download or read book Advances in Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing written by Shaowei Weng and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, Applications, and Tools, held on December 16–18, 2022, in Kitakyushu, Japan. It is divided into two volumes and discusses latest research outcomes in the field of information technology (IT) including but not limited to information hiding, multimedia signal processing, big data, data mining, bioinformatics, database, industrial and internet of things, and their applications.

Download or read book Recent Advances in Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications written by Mislav Grgic and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-10-14 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid increase in computing power and communication speed, coupled with computer storage facilities availability, has led to a new age of multimedia applications. This book presents recent advances in Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications.

Download or read book Artificial Intelligence for Multimedia Signal Processing written by Byung-Gyu Kim and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artificial intelligence technologies are also actively applied to broadcasting and multimedia processing technologies. A lot of research has been conducted in a wide variety of fields, such as content creation, transmission, and security, and these attempts have been made in the past two to three years to improve image, video, speech, and other data compression efficiency in areas related to MPEG media processing technology. Additionally, technologies such as media creation, processing, editing, and creating scenarios are very important areas of research in multimedia processing and engineering. This book contains a collection of some topics broadly across advanced computational intelligence algorithms and technologies for emerging multimedia signal processing as: Computer vision field, speech/sound/text processing, and content analysis/information mining.

Download or read book Intelligent Multimedia Data Hiding written by Hsiang-Cheh Huang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-04-25 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book lays out all the latest research in the area of multimedia data hiding. The book introduces multimedia signal processing and information hiding techniques. It includes multimedia representation, digital watermarking fundamentals and requirements of watermarking. It moves on to cover the recent advances in multimedia signal processing, before presenting information hiding techniques including steganography, secret sharing and watermarking. The final part of this book includes practical applications of intelligent multimedia signal processing and data hiding systems.

Download or read book Smart Grid in IoT Enabled Spaces written by Fadi Al-Turjman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled spaces have made revolutionary advances in the utility grid. Among these advances, intelligent and energy-efficient services are gaining considerable interest. The use of the smart grid is increasing day after day around us and is not only used in saving energy but also in our daily life for intelligent health, traffic, and even farming systems. The grid enabled with IoT features is also expected to communicate with cellular networks smoothly in the next-generation networks (6G and beyond). This will open the door for other interesting research areas. In this book, we consider the most significant and emergent research topics in this domain, addressing major issues and challenges in IoT-based solutions proposed for the smart grid. The chapters provide insight on comprehensive topics in IoT-based smart grids, combining technical aspects with the most up-to-date theory. It investigates the grid under varying and potential emerging paradigms such as edge/fog computing, in addition to big data aspects considerations in the IoT era. With comprehensive surveys and case studies, this book explores basic and high-level grid aspects in the emerging smart city paradigm, which makes it especially attractive to researchers, academics, and higher-level students. This authored book can be used by computer science undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and practitioners, city administrators, policymakers, and government regulators.

Download or read book Intelligent Analysis of Multimedia Information written by Bhattacharyya, Siddhartha and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multimedia represents information in novel and varied formats. One of the most prevalent examples of continuous media is video. Extracting underlying data from these videos can be an arduous task. From video indexing, surveillance, and mining, complex computational applications are required to process this data. Intelligent Analysis of Multimedia Information is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on the implementation of innovative techniques to a broad spectrum of multimedia applications by presenting emerging methods in continuous media processing and manipulation. This book offers a fresh perspective for students and researchers of information technology, media professionals, and programmers.

Download or read book Recent Trends in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Security written by Gregorio Martinez Perez and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Security in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems, SNDS 2014, held in Trivandrum, India, in March 2014. The 32 revised full papers presented together with 9 short papers and 8 workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 129 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on security and privacy in networked systems; multimedia security; cryptosystems, algorithms, primitives; system and network security; short papers. The workshop papers were presented at the following workshops: Second International Workshop on Security in Self-Organising Networks (Self Net 2014); Workshop on Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Cryptology and Information Security (CIS 2014); Second International Workshop on Trust and Privacy in Cyberspace (Cyber Trust 2014).

Download or read book Multimedia Techniques for Device and Ambient Intelligence written by Ernesto Damiani and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-05-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambient Intelligence is a vision of the future where the world will be surrounded by electronic environments sensitive and responsive to people, wherein devices work in concert to support people in carrying out their everyday life activities, in an easy and natural way. This edited volume is based on the workshop Multimedia Techniques for Ambient Intelligence (MTDAI08), held in Mogliano Veneto, Italy in March 2008. Contributed by world renowned leaders in the field from academia and industry, this volume is dedicated to research on technologies used to improve the intelligence capability of multimedia devices for imaging, image processing and computer vision. Focuses on recent developments in digital signal processing, including evolutions in audiovisual signal processing, analysis, coding and authentication, and retrieval techniques. Designed for researchers and professionals, this book is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science and electrical engineering.

Download or read book Green and Smart Technologies for Smart Cities written by Pradeep Tomar and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book starts with an overview of the role of cities in climate change and environmental pollution worldwide, followed by the concept description of smart cities and their expected features, focusing on green technology innovation. This book explores the energy management strategies required to minimize the need for huge investments in high-capacity transmission lines from distant power plants. A new range of renewable energy technologies modified for installation in cities like small wind turbines, micro-CHP and heat pumps are described. The overall objective of this book is to explore all the green and smart technologies for designing green smart cities.

Download or read book Intelligent Multimedia Technologies for Networking Applications Techniques and Tools written by Kanellopoulos, Dimitris and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As ubiquitous multimedia applications benefit from the rapid development of intelligent multimedia technologies, there is an inherent need to present frameworks, techniques and tools that adopt these technologies to a range of networking applications. Intelligent Multimedia Technologies for Networking Applications: Techniques and Tools promotes the discussion of specific solutions for improving the quality of multimedia experience while investigating issues arising from the deployment of techniques for adaptive video streaming. This reference source provides relevant theoretical frameworks and leading empirical research findings and is suitable for practitioners and researchers in the area of multimedia technology.

Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Tourism Cities written by Alastair M. Morrison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Cities presents an up-to-date, critical and comprehensive overview of established and emerging themes in urban tourism and tourist cities. Offering socio-cultural perspectives and multidisciplinary insights from leading scholars, the book explores contemporary issues, challenges and trends. Organised into four parts, the handbook begins with an introductory section that explores contemporary issues, challenges and trends that tourism cities face today. A range of topics are explored, including sustainable urban tourism, overtourism and urbanisation, the impact of terrorism, visitor–host interactions, as well as reflections on present and future challenges for tourism cities. In Part II the marketing, branding and markets for tourism cities are considered, exploring topics such as destination marketing and branding, business travellers and exhibition hosting. This section combines academic scholarship with real-life practice and case studies from cities. Part III discusses product and technology developments for tourism cities, examining their supply and impact on different travellers, from open-air markets to creative waterfronts, from social media to smart cities. The final Part offers examples of how urban tourism is developing in different parts of the world and how worldwide tourism cities are adapting to the challenges ahead. It also explores emerging forms of specialist tourism, including geology and ecology-based tourism, socialist heritage and post-communist destination tourism. This handbook fills a notable gap by offering a critical and detailed understanding of the diverse elements of the tourist experience today. It contains useful suggestions for practitioners, as well as examples for theoretical frameworks to students in the fields of urban tourism and tourism cities. The handbook will be of interest to scholars and students working in urban tourism, heritage studies, human geography, urban studies and urban planning, sociology, psychology and business studies.

Download or read book Multimedia Signals and Systems written by Srdjan Stanković and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed for students, professionals and researchers in the field of multimedia and related fields with a need to learn the basics of multimedia systems and signal processing. Emphasis is given to the analysis and processing of multimedia signals (audio, images, and video). Detailed insight into the most relevant mathematical apparatus and transformations used in multimedia signal processing is given. A unique relationship between different transformations is also included, opening new perspectives for defining novel transforms in specific applications. Special attention is dedicated to the compressive sensing area, which has a great potential to contribute to further improvement of modern multimedia systems. In addition to the theoretical concepts, various standard and more recently accepted algorithms for the reconstruction of different types of signals are considered. Additional information and details are also provided to enable a comprehensive analysis of audio and video compression algorithms. Finally, the book connects these principles to other important elements of multimedia systems, such as the analysis of optical media, digital watermarking, and telemedicine. New to this edition: Introduction of the generalization concept to consolidate the time-frequency signal analysis, wavelet transformation, and Hermite transformation Inclusion of prominent robust transformation theory used in the processing of noisy multimedia data as well as advanced multimedia data filtering approaches, including image filtering techniques for impulse noise environment Extended video compression algorithms Detailed coverage of compressive sensing in multimedia applications

Download or read book Multimedia Signals written by Anna Sanders and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multimedia signal processing uses computational techniques to read digital data. This book on multimedia signals explains the processes that are involved in audio and video processing, data conversion and data compression. Signals are arranged in a sequence related to time, space or frequency. Algorithms that correlate to simple digital signal processes are discussed in detail. This book is a valuable compilation of topics ranging from the basic to the most complex advancements in the field of multimedia signal processing. The aim of this text is to present researches that have transformed this discipline and aided the advancement of this field. It will be helpful to students, experts, researchers and professionals engaged in the fields of digital electronics, computer engineering and telecommunication theory.