Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) now effects most computing activities. The popularity of computing devices containing multicore processors, including home and office PCs and laptops, is making even common users dependent on parallel processing. Certainly, it is no longer sufficient for even basic programmers to acquire only the traditional sequential programming skills. The preceding trends point to the need for imparting a broad-based skill set in PDC technology at various levels in the educational fabric woven by Computer Science (CS) and Computer Engineering (CE) programs as well as related computational disciplines. However, the rapid changes in computing hardware platforms and devices, languages, supporting programming environments, and research advances, more than ever challenge educators in knowing what to include in the curriculum and what to teach in any given semester or course.

For the last decades Multimedia computing has emerged as an important technology to generate content based on images, video, audio, graphics, and text. Furthermore, the recent new development represented by High Definition and Interactive television will generate important computing problems connected with the creation, processing and management of Multimedia content. Dealing with HD Multimedia content (image, video and sound) will generate a huge volume of data to process which can lead in a natural way to parallel and distributed computing. Moreover, the inherent data parallelism of Multimedia content data makes this type of computing a natural application area for parallel and distributed processing.

This FDP aims to merge the recent research achievements in developing new theories, algorithms, architectures, systems and integrated multimedia platforms that exploit parallel and distributed computing.

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