Chapter 1 Flashcards
What is multimedia?
Multimedia involves multiple modalities including text, audio, images, drawings, animation, and video.
How do different fields perceive multimedia?
A consumer entertainment vendor views it as interactive cable TV, while a CS student sees it as applications using multiple modalities.
What are some components of multimedia?
- Text
- Audio
- Images
- Drawings
- Animation
- Video
What does multimedia processing and coding include?
- Multimedia content analysis
- Content-based multimedia retrieval
- Multimedia security
- Audio/image/video processing
- Compression
What are some multimedia system support and networking topics?
- Network protocols
- Internet
- Operating systems
- Servers and clients
- Quality of service (QoS)
- Databases
What historical medium is considered the first mass communication medium?
Newspaper
What was conceived in the 1830s as a way to observe rapid motion?
Motion pictures
Who is credited with wireless radio transmission in 1895?
Guglielmo Marconi
What medium became prominent in the 20th century, changing mass communications?
Television
Define hypermedia.
A hypertext system meant to be read nonlinearly, allowing navigation through links.
What is an example of a hypermedia application?
The World Wide Web (WWW)
True or False: Multimedia is constrained to be text-based.
False
What significant event occurred in 2001 related to peer-to-peer file sharing?
The first peer-to-peer file sharing system, Napster, was shut down by court order.
What was the first large-scale peer-to-peer streaming system?
Coolstreaming
What year was YouTube created?
2005
What mobile operating systems were launched in 2007?
- iOS by Apple
- Android by Google
What technology did Microsoft introduce in 2010 for Xbox 360?
Kinect
What are examples of innovations in multimedia applications?
- Better camera-based object tracking technology
- Video shot detection
- 3D capture technology
- Multimedia applications aimed at handicapped persons
Fill in the blank: Multimedia allows computer information to be represented through _______.
audio, graphics, images, video, and animation
