Fundamentals of Multimedia, Chapter 1
Fundamentals of Multimedia, Chapter 1
Fundamentals of Multimedia, Chapter 1
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<strong>Fundamentals</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Multimedia</strong>, <strong>Chapter</strong> 11.1 What is <strong>Multimedia</strong>?• When different people mention the term multimedia, they<strong>of</strong>ten have quite different, or even opposing, viewpoints.– A PC vendor: a PC that has sound capability, a DVD-ROM drive,and perhaps the superiority <strong>of</strong> multimedia-enabled microprocessorsthat understand additional multimedia instructions.– A consumer entertainment vendor: interactive cable TV with hundreds<strong>of</strong> digital channels available, or a cable TV-like service deliveredover a high-speed Internet connection.– A Computer Science (CS) student: applications that use multiplemodalities, including text, images, drawings (graphics), animation,video, sound including speech, and interactivity.• <strong>Multimedia</strong> and Computer Science:– Graphics, HCI, visualization, computer vision, data compression, graphtheory, networking, database systems.2 Li & Drew c○Prentice Hall 2003
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