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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2012, Shanghai, China, November. The 69 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image processing and pattern recognition; image and video analysis; image quality assessment; text image and speech processing; content retrieval and security; source coding; multimedia communication; new advances in broadband multimedia; human computer interface; 3D video.