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An Introduction to Intelligent Multimedia
Data Hiding

Hsiang-Cheh Huang 1 , Jeng-Shyang Pan 2 , Wai-Chi Fang 3 ,andLakhmi
C. Jain 4

1

Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Kaohsiung,
Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan, R.O.C.
[e-mail]

2

Department of Electronic Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of
Applied Sciences,
Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan, R.O.C.
[e-mail]

3

California Institute of Technology & NASAs Jet Propulsion Lab,
Pasadena, CA, USA
[e-mail]

4

University of South Australia,
Adelaide, Australia
[e-mail]

Summary. With the widespread use of the Internet and the booming growth of
the computer industry, multimedia related researches and applications have greatly
increased in the last twenty years. In addition to multimedia signal processing, data
hiding techniques aiming at protecting copyright-related issues are of considerable
interest in academia and industry. Experts in multimedia signal processing and data
hiding have been invited to contribute to this topic. We hope the readers find the
topic of value.

1.1 Introduction to Multimedia Information

With the widespread use of Internet and the booming growth in the computer
industry, multimedia related researches and applications have multiplied in the
last fifteen to twenty years. Hence, we give a brief introduction to multimedia
representation and the need for multimedia compression. Advanced topics will
be given in Part II of this topic.

1.1.1 Multimedia Representation

Multimedia involve more than one medium and including image, sound, text,
video, for example, [1, 2, 3, 4]. Multiple media are simultaneously transmitted