CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Proposal Submission Deadline: January 15, 2007
Multimedia
Transcoding in
A book edited by Dr.
Ashraf M. A. Ahmad,
The
great proliferation and enhancements in wireless networking, specifically the
development of the wireless Ethernet protocols and the quick deployment and
growth of mobile communication protocols and technologies such as 2.5G, 3G,
DVBH, and so forth, have enabled a broad spectrum of new applications and
systems. The ‘any time, any where’ principle of communicating data, emergence of
network content providers and the growing attractiveness of handheld devices,
are among the factors that have formed the field of multimedia communication in
wireless and mobile video. Recently, this field has brought up a very
sophisticated computing paradigm, which is the multimedia transcoding in mobile
and wireless networks. This
paradigm is usually focused on filling up the gap between the high resources
requirements of multimedia applications and the limited bandwidth and
capabilities offered by networking protocols and technologies and handheld
device. In addition, the advance of multimedia systems has had a major influence
in the area of image and video coding. The problem of interactivity and
integration of video data with computer, cellular, and television systems is
relatively new and subject to a great deal of research world wide. As the number
of networks, types of devices, and content representation formats increase,
interoperability between different systems and different networks is becoming
more important. Thus, multimedia transcoding in wireless and mobile networks
must be developed to provide a seamless interaction between content creation and
usage.
The
Overall Objective of the Book
This
book is designed to provide the researchers and practitioners with relevant
theoretical frameworks and, latest technical and institutional solutions for
transcoding multimedia in mobile and wireless
networks.
An
insight into the field of Multimedia and it associated technologies and
communication protocols.
The
background for understanding those emerging applications and system which deploy
multimedia transcoding.
A
viewpoint in the future of transcoding wireless and mobile multimedia and its
applications.
The
book intend to embody state of the art knowledge of transcoding video for mobile
and wireless networks as it is practiced today and as it is embedded in the
pioneering technologies and leading research
proposals.
The
Target Audience
The
book is intended for people interested in wireless and mobile multimedia
transcoding at all levels. The primary audience of this book includes students,
researchers, developers, engineers, innovators and research strategists, who are
seeking for a general overview of how to realize, develop and integrate
multimedia transcoding system in mobile and wireless environment. While the book
can be used as a textbook by students, engineers, and researchers can also use
it as reference.
Recommended
topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Fundamentals of Multimedia
Coding
Multimedia Compression
Standards
Multimedia Transcoding
Video
Transcoding System and Architectures
Audio
Transcoding System and Architectures
Images Transcoding System and
Architectures
Text
Transcoding System and Architectures
Webs
Transcoding System and Architectures
Content based Transcoding
Format Conversion
Transcoding
Digital Multimedia Adaptation in MPEG21 Vs Transcoding
Digital Right Management (DRM) protocols
H324M
and DVBH
Proxy
based Transcoding
Security of Multimedia Transmission and
Transcoding
Streaming Multimedia
Mobile TV
Grid
Computing for Multimedia Transcoding
SUBMISSION
PROCEDURE
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before January, 15, 2007, a 2-5 page
manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed
chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by February 1, 2007 about the status of
their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are
expected to be submitted by May 1, 2007. All submitted chapters
will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be
published by Idea Group Inc., http://www.idea-group.com/, publisher of
the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Idea Group Reference
imprints.
Inquiries and
submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:
Dr. Ashraf M. A.
Ahmad
Department of Computer
Science
PRINCESS SUMYA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
PO box 1438 Amman 11941,
Jordan
E-mail:
Ashraf@csie.nctu.edu.tw