Multimedia and information technology; proceedings

SciTech Book News, June, 2009

Multimedia and information technology; proceedings.

International Conference on MultiMedia and Information Technology (2008: Three Gorges, China) Ed. by Xianzhi Tan.

Computer Society Press

2008

849 pages

$300.00

Paperback

TK5105

A December 2008 conference provided a forum for engineers and scientists to address technical and safety challenges as well as social, legal, political, and economic issues in multimedia and information technology. Papers are in sections on intelligent computing, web applications, image/video/audio/information processing, intelligent systems, management science, wireless and mobile multimedia, virtual environments and applications, intelligent control, multimedia applications, and innovative computing and applications. Some specific areas examined include virtual reality simulation and analysis of handling stability for forest fire patrolling vehicles, experimental research on multimedia teaching for sports aerobics, a clustering algorithm in wireless networks, and a license plate recognition system based on an orthometric Hopfield network. Other subjects include a model for fleet assignment in the city-pair route network, stream processing in triplet based architecture, and sewage image feature extraction and turbidity degree detection based on an embedded system. There is no subject index.

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