This position paper advocates a possible bridging of multiple heterogeneous formats and interfaces for hypermedia data and metadata. Rather than one more text, bit-stream or proced...
We apply the concept of network-consciousness to image compression, an approach that does not simply optimize compression, but which optimizes overall performance when compressed i...
In this paper we present a novel algorithm for video scene segmentation. We model a scene as a semantically consistent chunk of audio-visual data. Central to the segmentation fram...
To meet the needs for large-scale, high-quality learning contents, needless to say, we have to sharpen authoring tools. Authoring process can be roughly divided into two phases, a ...
The development of increasingly complex multimedia applications calls for new methodologies for the organization and retrieval of still images and video sequences. Query and retri...