Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments: An Introduction -- Audiovisual Compression for Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments -- Generalized Recognition of Sound Events: Approaches and Applications -- An Overview of Speech/Music Discrimination Techniques in the Context of Audio Recordings -- Multichannel Audio Coding for Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments -- Temporal Video Transcoding for Multimedia Services -- Individualization of Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems via Objective Feature Subset Selection -- Audio-Visual Multimedia Retrieval on Mobile Devices -- Cryptography and Data Hiding for Media Security -- Multimedia Information Security -- Multimedia Services Applied to Noise and Hearing Monitoring and Measuring -- Vision-Based Tracking for Mobile Augmented Reality -- Rights Management and Licensing Multimedia Services -- Automated Lecture Services -- Recommender Services in Scientific Digital Libraries.