Multidimensional signal processing for visual and multimedia services

视觉数据，以各种类型的图像的形式，仍然是消费者和专业人士最丰富的信息来源之一。随着通信服务和网络的进步，近年来基于图像的服务已经开始激增，特别是那些利用互联网的服务。然而，其中许多服务的质量、真实性和响应能力仍然不足，特别是对于非常高分辨率的图像和三维环境。由于这种数据密集型服务将有助于有效地利用目前可用的充足的通信带宽，同时为企业和消费者市场提供高度期望和需要的服务，因此及时解决高性能视觉通信基础理论中尚未解决的问题。

Visual data, in the form of diverse types of imagery, remains one of the richest sources of information for both consumers and professionals. With advances in communications services and networks, image-based services have begun to proliferate in recent years, especially those making use of the internet. However, many of these services still offer inadequate quality, realism and responsiveness, especially for very high-resolution imagery and three-dimensional environments. Since such data-intensive services will help to make effective use of the ample communications bandwidth currently available while providing highly desirable and needed services to the business and consumer markets, it is timely to address the unresolved issues in the basic theories underlying high-performance visual communications.