Cloud Computing and Digital Media Fundamentals, Techniques, and Applications

Cloud Computing and Digital Media: Fundamentals, Techniques, and Applications presents the fundamentals of cloud and media infrastructure, novel technologies that integrate digital media with cloud computing, and real-world applications that exemplify the potential of cloud computing for next-generation digital media. It brings together technologies for media/data communication, elastic media/data storage, security, authentication, cross-network media/data fusion, interdevice media interaction/reaction, data centers, PaaS, SaaS, and more. The book covers resource optimization for multimedia cloud computing—a key technical challenge in adopting cloud computing for various digital media applications. It describes several important new technologies in cloud computing and digital media, including query processing, semantic classification, music retrieval, mobile multimedia, and video transcoding. The book also illustrates the profound impact of emerging health-care and educational applications of cloud computing. Covering an array of state-of-the-art research topics, this book will help you understand the techniques and applications of cloud computing, the interaction/reaction of mobile devices, and digital media/data processing and communication.

Mobile Multimedia Cloud Computing: An Overview Jiehan Zhou, Haibin Zhu, Mika Ylianttila, and Mika Rautiainen Resource Optimization for Multimedia Cloud Computing XiaoMing Nan, Yifeng He, and ling Guan Supporting Practices in Professional Communities Using Mobile Cloud Services Dejan Kovachev and Ralf Klamma GPU and Cloud Computing for Two Paradigms of Music Information Retrieval Chung-Che Wang, Tzu-Chun Yeh, Wei-Tsa Kao, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang, Wen-Shan Liou, and Yao-Min Huang Video Transcode Scheduling for MPEG-DASH in Cloud Environments Roger Zimmermann Cloud-Based Intelligent Tutoring Mechanism for Pervasive Learning Martin M. Weng, Yung-Hui Chen, and Neil Y. Yen Multiple-Query Processing and Optimization Techniques for Multitenant Databases Li Jin, Hao Wang, and Ling Feng Large-Scale Correlation-Based Semantic Classification Using MapReduce Fausto C. Fleites, Hsin-Yu Ha, Yimin Yang, and Shu-Ching Chen Efficient Join Query Processing on the Cloud Xiaofei Zhang and Lei Chen Development of a Framework for the Desktop Grid Federation of Game Tree Search Applications I-Chen Wu and Lung-Pin Chen Research on the Scene 3D Reconstruction from Internet Photo Collections Based on Cloud Computing Junfeng Yao and Bin Wu Pearly User Interfaces for Cloud Computing: First Experience in Health-Care IT Laure Martins-Baltar, Yann Laurillau, and Gaëlle Calvary Standardized Multimedia Data in Health-Care Applications Pulkit Mehndiratta, Hemjyotasna Parashar, Shelly Sachdeva, and Subhash Bhalla Digital Rights Management in the Cloud Paolo Balboni and Claudio Partesotti Cloud Computing and Adult Literacy: How Cloud Computing Can Sustain the Promise of Adult Learning Griff Richards, Rory McGreal, Brian Stewart, and Matthias Sturm Index