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Elements of Multimedia presents a systematic introduction and integrated overview of the state-of-the-art innovations that make Multimedia a rapidly evolving technology in the digital domain. This book is also an invaluable resource for applied researchers. Some of the salient features of the book include:

• Overview of recent additions to multimedia like New Media, Digital Media, Social Media and Mobile Media.
• This book provides a starting point for researchers wishing to pursue research in Multimedia.
• Discussions on advances in Web Technology, particularly Web 2.0, as well as Multimedia Applications.
• Detailed descriptions on different Multimedia elements like text, graphics, images, audio, video and animation.
• Introduction to the concepts of data compression.
• Various aspects of multimedia presentations.
• Multimedia storage hardware.
• Databases for Multimedia data storage and indexing schemes for accessing Multimedia data.
• Multimedia communications and networking issues.

Each chapter ends with a review of the topics covered and a set of review questions to enable the student to go back to the chapter and recapitulate the subject matter. Answers to the Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQ) are provided at the end of the book. Solutions of problems are also provided.