IMSC Press Multimedia Series

ANDREW TESCHER, Series Editor, Compression Science Corporation

Advisory Editors

LEONARDO CHIARIGLIONE, CSELT

TARIQ S. DURRANI, University of Strathclyde

JEFF GRALNICK, E-splosion Consulting, LLC

CHRYSOSTOMOS L. "MAX" NIKIAS, University of Southern California

ADAM C. POWELL III, The Freedom Forum

• Streaming Media Server Design

  Ali E. Dashti, Seon Ho Kim, Cyrus Shahabi, and Roger Zimmermann

• Desktop Digital Video Production

  Frederic Jones

• Touch in Virtual Environments: Haptics and the Design of Interactive Systems

  Edited by Margaret L. McLaughlin, João P. Hespanha, and Gaurav S. Sukhatme

• The MPEG-4 Book

  Edited by Fernando Pereira and Touradj Ebrahimi

• Multimedia Fundamentals, Volume 1: Media Coding and Content Processing

  Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Nahrstedt

• Intelligent Systems for Video Analysis and Access Over the Internet

  Wensheng Zhou and C. C. Jay Kuo

The Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC), a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center in the University of Southern California's School of Engineering, is a preeminent multimedia and Internet research center. IMSC seeks to develop integrated media systems that dramatically transform the way we work, communicate, learn, teach, and entertain. In an integrated media system, advanced media technologies combine, deliver, and transform information in the form of images, video, audio, animation, graphics, text, and haptics (touch-related technologies). IMSC Press, in partnership with Prentice Hall, publishes cutting-edge research on multimedia and Internet topics. IMSC Press is part of IMSC's educational outreach program.