Coding and Compression -- Computer Graphics and Simulation -- Image and Signal Processing -- Multimedia Information Retrieval -- 3D Video -- HD Device Interconnects -- Consumer Electronics Technologies -- Smart Grid -- Ubiquitous Computing -- Context-Aware Computing -- Embedded systems and softwares -- Human centric computing -- Wearable Body Area Systems -- Machine Architectures -- Peer to Peer Network -- Machine-to-Machine Communications -- Mobile system performance -- Wireless communications -- Wirless Sensor Network -- Wireless Body Area Network.

The new multimedia standards (for example, MPEG-21) facilitate the seamless integration of multiple modalities into interoperable multimedia frameworks, transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data. These key technologies and multimedia solutions interact and collaborate with each other in increasingly effective ways, contributing to the multimedia revolution and having a significant impact across a wide spectrum of consumer, business, healthcare, education, and governmental domains. This book aims to provide a complete coverage of the areas outlined and to bring together the researchers from academic and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, challenges, and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of this field.