Copyright

IMSC Press Multimedia Series

A NDREW T ESCHER , Series Editor, Compression Science Corporation

Advisory Editors

L EONARDO C HIARIGLIONE , CSELT

T ARIQ S. D URRANI , University of Strathclyde

J EFF G RALNICK , E-splosion Consulting, LLC

C HRYSOSTOMOS L. "M AX " N IKIAS , University of Southern California

A DAM C. P OWELL 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, Jo & pound ;o P. Hespanha, and Gaurav S. Sukhatme

• The MPEG-4 Book

  Edited by Fernando Pereira and Touradj Ebrahimi

• iTV Handbook: Technologies and Standards

  Edward M. Schwalb

• Quality of Service for Internet Multimedia

  Jitae Shin, Daniel C. Lee, and C. C. Jay Kuo

• Multimedia Fundamentals: 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.