chapter Preface -- chapter Contributors -- chapter 1 Emerging Standards for Multimedia Applications -- chapter 2 An Efficient Algorithm and Architecture for Real-Time Perspective Image Warping / chapter 3 Application-Specific Multimedia Processor Architecture -- chapter 4 Superresolution of Images with Learned Multiple Reconstruction Kernels / chapter 5 Image Processing Techniques for Multimedia Processing / chapter 6 Intelligent Multimedia Processing / chapter 7 On Independent Component Analysis for Multimedia Signals / chapter 10 Object-Based Analysis–Synthesis Coding Based on Moving 3D Objects / chapter 11 Rate-Distortion Techniques in Image and Video Coding / chapter 12 Transform Domain Techniques for Multimedia Image and Video Coding / chapter 13 Video Modeling and Retrieval / chapter 14 Image Retrieval in Frequency Domain Using DCT Coefficient Histograms / chapter 15 Rapid Similarity Retrieval from Image and Video / chapter 16 Video Transcoding / chapter 17 Multimedia Distance Learning / chapter 18 A New Watermarking Technique for Multimedia Protection / chapter 19 Telemedicine: A Multimedia Communication Perspective