Multimedia Technology - Chapter 1- Introduction to Multimedia

Course: Multimedia Technology

Chapter: 1 

Chapter Title: Introduction to Multimedia

WHAT IS IT?
Oxford English Dictionary:

“A. adj. Using more than one medium of communication, artistic expression, etc.;
( Computing ) designating or relating to applications which incorporate a number of media, such as text, audio, video, and animation, esp. interactively.

“Multimedia means that computer information can be represented through audio, video, and animation in addition to traditional media (i.e., text, graphics drawings, images).”

A good general definition is:
“Multimedia is the field concerned with the computer-controlled integration of text, graphics, drawings, still and moving images (Video), animation, sound, audio, and any other media where every type of information can be represented, stored, transmitted and processed digitally.”

“A Multimedia Application is an Application which uses a collection of multiple media sources e.g. text, graphics, images, sound/audio, animation and/or video.”

Elements of Multimedia:

• Graphics (Images/Pictures)
• Audio
• Video
• Text
• Animation

COMPONENTS OF MULTIMEDIA

Multimedia involves multiple modalities of text, audio, images, drawings, animation, and video.

Examples of how these modalities are put to use:
1. Video teleconferencing.
2. Distributed lectures for higher education.
3. Tele-medicine.
4. Co-operative work environments.
5. Searching in (very) large video and image
databases for target visual objects.
6. “Augmented” reality: placing real-appearing computer graphics and video objects into scenes.
7. Including audio cues for where video-conference participants are located.
8. Building searchable features into new video, and enabling very high- to very low-bit-rate use of new, scalable multimedia products.
9. Making multimedia components editable.
10. Building \inverse-Hollywood" applications that can recreate the process by which a video was made.
11. Using voice-recognition to build an interactive environment, say a kitchen-wall web browser.

CHARACTERISTICS OF A MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM

A Multimedia system has four basic characteristics:
• Multimedia systems must be computer controlled.
• Multimedia systems are integrated.
• The information they handle must be represented digitally.
• The interface to the final presentation of media is usually interactive.

APPLICATIONS OF MULTIMEDIA

Games, Video-on-demand, Education, Interactive TV, Promotional material , Home shopping, Visualization applications,  Virtual reality, Traditional mediums e.g. TV Digital video editing and production systems.  Hypermedia course-ware, Video conferencing, Multimedia Database systems, etc.

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Multimedia Technology Chapter 1 Introduction