Intelligent Multimedia Foundations and Applications

Preface Intelligent Multimedia Sciences is the study, invention, and creative use of sciences and technologies for understanding and expression of multimedia intelligence and its computation by people and machines. There is further interest in management science and IT to apply the new technologies to business applications. Computers and computation are the most prominent common denominators of the multi-disciplinary merger of previously separate domains. The monograph is a technical and practical book to the popular audience, to the business minded professionals, and to all groups wanting to be on an intelligent bearing to the new field.