Recent Advancements in Multimedia Data Processing and Security: Issues, Challenges, and Techniques


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In the age of social media dominance, a staggering amount of textual data floods our online spaces daily. While this wealth of information presents boundless opportunities for research and understanding human behavior, it also poses substantial challenges. The sheer volume of data overwhelms traditional processing methods, and harnessing its potential requires sophisticated tools. Furthermore, the need for ensuring data security and mitigating risks in the digital realm has never been more pressing. Academic scholars, researchers, and professionals grapple with these issues daily, seeking innovative solutions to unlock the true value of multimedia data while safeguarding privacy and integrity. Recent Advancements in Multimedia Data Processing and Security: Issues, Challenges, and Techniques is a groundbreaking book that serves as a beacon of light amidst the sea of data-related challenges. It offers a comprehensive solution by bridging the gap between academic research and practical applications. By delving into topics such as deep learning, emotion recognition, and high-dimensional text clustering, it equips scholars and professionals with the innovative tools and techniques they need to navigate the complex landscape of multimedia data.




The Art of Cyber Defense


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The Art of Cyber Defense: From Risk Assessment to Threat Intelligence offers a comprehensive exploration of cybersecurity principles, strategies, and technologies essential for safeguarding digital assets and mitigating evolving cyber threats. This book provides invaluable insights into the intricacies of cyber defense, guiding readers through a journey from understanding risk assessment methodologies to leveraging threat intelligence for proactive defense measures. Delving into the nuances of modern cyber threats, this book equips readers with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate the complex landscape of cybersecurity. Through a multidisciplinary approach, it addresses the pressing challenges organizations face in securing their digital infrastructure and sensitive data from cyber‐attacks. This book offers comprehensive coverage of the most essential topics, including: Advanced malware detection and prevention strategies leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) Hybrid deep learning techniques for malware classification Machine learning solutions and research perspectives on Internet of Services (IoT) security Comprehensive analysis of blockchain techniques for enhancing IoT security and privacy Practical approaches to integrating security analysis modules for proactive threat intelligence This book is an essential reference for students, researchers, cybersecurity professionals, and anyone interested in understanding and addressing contemporary cyber defense and risk assessment challenges. It provides a valuable resource for enhancing cybersecurity awareness, knowledge, and practical skills.




Advanced Security Solutions for Multimedia


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Modern internet-enabled devices and fast communication technologies have ushered in a revolution in sharing of digital images and video. This may be for social reasons or for commercial and industrial applications. Attackers can steal this data or manipulate it for their own uses, causing financial and emotional damage to the owners. This drives the need for advanced security solutions and the need to continuously develop and maintain security measures in an ever-evolving battle against fraud and malicious intent. There are various techniques employed in protecting digital media and information, such as digital watermarking, cryptography, stenography, data encryption, and more. In addition, sharing platforms and connected nodes themselves may be open to vulnerabilities and can suffer from security breaches. This book reviews present state-of-the-art research related to the security of digital imagery and video, including developments in machine learning applications. It is particularly suited for those that bridge the academic world and industry, allowing readers to understand the security concerns in the multimedia domain by reviewing present and evolving security solutions, their limitations, and future research directions.




Handbook of Multimedia Information Security: Techniques and Applications


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This handbook is organized under three major parts. The first part of this handbook deals with multimedia security for emerging applications. The chapters include basic concepts of multimedia tools and applications, biological and behavioral biometrics, effective multimedia encryption and secure watermarking techniques for emerging applications, an adaptive face identification approach for android mobile devices, and multimedia using chaotic and perceptual hashing function. The second part of this handbook focuses on multimedia processing for various potential applications. The chapter includes a detail survey of image processing based automated glaucoma detection techniques and role of de-noising, recent study of dictionary learning based image reconstruction techniques for analyzing the big medical data, brief introduction of quantum image processing and it applications, a segmentation-less efficient Alzheimer detection approach, object recognition, image enhancements and de-noising techniques for emerging applications, improved performance of image compression approach, and automated detection of eye related diseases using digital image processing. The third part of this handbook introduces multimedia applications. The chapter includes the extensive survey on the role of multimedia in medicine and multimedia forensics classification, a finger based authentication system for e-health security, analysis of recently developed deep learning techniques for emotion and activity recognition. Further, the book introduce a case study on change of ECG according to time for user identification, role of multimedia in big data, cloud computing, the Internet of things (IoT) and blockchain environment in detail for real life applications. This handbook targets researchers, policy makers, programmers and industry professionals in creating new knowledge for developing efficient techniques/framework for multimedia applications. Advanced level students studying computer science, specifically security and multimedia will find this book useful as a reference.




Handbook of Research on Multimedia Cyber Security


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Because it makes the distribution and transmission of digital information much easier and more cost effective, multimedia has emerged as a top resource in the modern era. In spite of the opportunities that multimedia creates for businesses and companies, information sharing remains vulnerable to cyber attacks and hacking due to the open channels in which this data is being transmitted. Protecting the authenticity and confidentiality of information is a top priority for all professional fields that currently use multimedia practices for distributing digital data. The Handbook of Research on Multimedia Cyber Security provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of current security practices and techniques within multimedia information and assessing modern challenges. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as cryptographic protocols, feature extraction, and chaotic systems, this book is ideally designed for scientists, researchers, developers, security analysts, network administrators, scholars, IT professionals, educators, and students seeking current research on developing strategies in multimedia security.




Advanced Applications in Osmotic Computing


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The interaction of various service models, including edge computing and cloud computing, are quickly changing to better support microservices. This intricate weave of technology and information sharing is necessary to build systems that run faster and more efficiently. The interplay between these computing methods and microservices is emerging as the field of Osmotic Computing. Experts can now embark on an intellectual journey into data-driven exploration and ingenuity with the guidance of the book, Advanced Applications in Osmotic Computing. As ethical considerations become rising concerns, the potential biases, privacy encumbrances, and equitable conundrums of osmotic computing are investigated. This book offers judicious strategies to navigate these quandaries conscientiously, adding a layer of responsibility to the discourse. Within these pages, the very fabric of understanding in IoT, Cloud, Edge, Fog, and Machine Learning is redefined, marking a pivotal shift in the paradigm of technological comprehension. This book is an epicenter for the latest evolutions in osmotic computing, unfurling unconventional methodologies that shape the trajectory of data-driven decision-making. Readers will plunge into the theoretical bedrock, simultaneously witnessing pragmatic applications that adeptly bridge the schism between the theoretical constructs and pragmatic realization. The intended audience is multifaceted, encompassing data scientists, machine learning engineers, researchers, academics, educators, students, industry practitioners, interdisciplinary experts, and technology and business leaders.




Applications of Synthetic High Dimensional Data


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The need for tailored data for machine learning models is often unsatisfied, as it is considered too much of a risk in the real-world context. Synthetic data, an algorithmically birthed counterpart to operational data, is the linchpin for overcoming constraints associated with sensitive or regulated information. In high-dimensional data, where the dimensions of features and variables often surpass the number of available observations, the emergence of synthetic data heralds a transformation. Applications of Synthetic High Dimensional Data delves into the algorithms and applications underpinning the creation of synthetic data, which surpass the capabilities of authentic datasets in many cases. Beyond mere mimicry, synthetic data takes center stage in prioritizing the mathematical domain, becoming the crucible for training robust machine learning models. It serves not only as a simulation but also as a theoretical entity, permitting the consideration of unforeseen variables and facilitating fundamental problem-solving. This book navigates the multifaceted advantages of synthetic data, illuminating its role in protecting the privacy and confidentiality of authentic data. It also underscores the controlled generation of synthetic data as a mechanism to safeguard private information while maintaining a controlled resemblance to real-world datasets. This controlled generation ensures the preservation of privacy and facilitates learning across datasets, which is crucial when dealing with incomplete, scarce, or biased data. Ideal for researchers, professors, practitioners, faculty members, students, and online readers, this book transcends theoretical discourse.




Intelligent Multimedia Signal Processing for Smart Ecosystems


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A smart ecosystem is envisioned to exchange and analyze data across systems, enabling a flexible, faster, and reliable smart ecosystem for high-quality results at reduced costs and little human intervention. This book introduces many innovative approaches and provides solutions to various problems of smart ecosystems designed by employing various techniques/models based on AI, ML, Deep Learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT). The main focus is on intelligent multimedia processing and automated decision-making for various services, real-time data analysis, data security, cost-effective solutions for multimedia applications, smart information processing systems, and smart city planning to name a few. In addition, this book presents some key insights and future directions in the various areas of technology. Throughout the book, many state-of-the-art solutions concerning various applications are proposed to solve the issues and ensure the quality of services (QoS). The authors discuss the limitations of the current techniques used to design a smart ecosystem and highlight some prospective areas of research in the future. The book comprehensively discusses multimedia processing of various forms of data comprising text, images, and audio for the implementation of various solutions. The book is aimed to open many areas of research and thus would present a comprehensive reference for the design of smart ecosystems in various applications.




Recent Advances in Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications


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The rapid increase in computing power and communication speed, coupled with computer storage facilities availability, has led to a new age of multimedia applications. This book presents recent advances in Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications.




Research Anthology on Privatizing and Securing Data


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With the immense amount of data that is now available online, security concerns have been an issue from the start, and have grown as new technologies are increasingly integrated in data collection, storage, and transmission. Online cyber threats, cyber terrorism, hacking, and other cybercrimes have begun to take advantage of this information that can be easily accessed if not properly handled. New privacy and security measures have been developed to address this cause for concern and have become an essential area of research within the past few years and into the foreseeable future. The ways in which data is secured and privatized should be discussed in terms of the technologies being used, the methods and models for security that have been developed, and the ways in which risks can be detected, analyzed, and mitigated. The Research Anthology on Privatizing and Securing Data reveals the latest tools and technologies for privatizing and securing data across different technologies and industries. It takes a deeper dive into both risk detection and mitigation, including an analysis of cybercrimes and cyber threats, along with a sharper focus on the technologies and methods being actively implemented and utilized to secure data online. Highlighted topics include information governance and privacy, cybersecurity, data protection, challenges in big data, security threats, and more. This book is essential for data analysts, cybersecurity professionals, data scientists, security analysts, IT specialists, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in the latest trends and technologies for privatizing and securing data.