Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments: Advanced Tools and Methodologies

Multimedia services involve processing, transmission and retrieval of multiple forms of information. Multimedia services have gained momentum in the past few years due to the easy availability of computing power and storage media. Societyisdemandinghuman-like intelligent behaviour, such as adaptation and generalization, from machines every day. With this view in mind, researchers are working on fusing intelligent paradigms such as artificial neural networks, swarm intelligence, artificial i...