Introduction
- The need for MIR
- Multimedia data are attractive and convey information more effectively
- More and more information are presented in multimedia form
- Enabling technologies for MIR
- advanced digital technologies and products
- G4, JPEG, MPEG II
- scanner, Hi 8, digital camera
- multimedia mail, Video conferencing, software MPEG, internet phone
- Powerful CPU
- PC level: 50 ~ 100 MIPS, super computer: 1000,000 MIPS
- support editors for image, audio, video
- high speed and large volume of storage media
- PC level: 1.3 GB HD, 650M optical disk
- high speed and ubiquitous computer network :
- 10M (Ethernet) ~ 100M (fiber optics) and recently 4M (telephone line)
- fiber optics almost in every college
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