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Data compression is one of the enabling technologies for the application of communication technology with ever growing Internet, explosive development of mobile communication and the ever-increasing impact of video communication to store... more
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      Data CompressionMobile CommunicationCommunication TechnologyVideo Communication
Powerful computers and affordable digital media appliances result in a rapid growth of possibilities in the field of multimedia applications. There has been a significant increase in creation and use of multimedia content. Nowadays... more
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      Digital MediaMultimediaPerformanceWeb Services
The rapid proliferation of the Internet over recent years has roused the research community's interest in QoS guarantees to IP traffic. The integration of new satellite technologies with terrestrial broadband networks can provide worldwid... more
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      Distributed ComputingMultimediaPerformanceSatellite Communications
The growth of multimedia applications and wireless systems requires a new behavior of routing protocols for Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs). It is necessary to provide not only the minimum requirements for Quality of Service (QoS), but also... more
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      Wireless SystemsNetworkQuality of ExperiencePerformance Evaluation
Quality-of-Service (QoS) management is becoming an important part of Consumer Electronics systems. The complexity of recent multimedia applications and their requirements on the system throughput ask for a parallel programming model which... more
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      Quality ManagementParallel ProgrammingSocQuality of Service
The increasing development of advanced multimedia applications requires new technologies for organizing and retrieving by content databases of still digital images or digital video sequences. To this aim image and image sequence contents... more
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      Information SystemsNew TechnologyComputer SoftwareFeature Extraction
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      Speaker RecognitionA Priori KnowledgeGaussian processesSignal and information processing
he continuing evolution of mobile communications has spawned several radio technologies (e.g., orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing [OFDM], code-division multiple access [CDMA]) and mobile network architectures (e.g., Third... more
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      Distributed ComputingMobile DeviceCross layerMobile Network
 This paper discusses the evolution of ACSE-like protocols in the multimedia communications domain. The ACSE standard has traditionally supported numerous data applications which do not claim quality of service (QoS) guarantees. In a... more
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      Circuits and SystemsVirtual MemoryMultimedia CommunicationOPERATING SYSTEM
The dramatic development of radio solutions for wireless communications tends to blur the wider use that can be made of infrared transmissions in a room, a workshop or even a building. For some local applications for which a wireless part... more
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      Distributed ComputingSimulationProtocolsComputer Communications
The increasing development of advanced multimedia applications requires new technologies for organizing and retrieving by content databases of still digital images or digital video sequences. To this aim image and image sequence contents... more
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      Information SystemsNew TechnologyComputer SoftwareFeature Extraction
In the recent years, Internet multimedia applications have become very popular. Valuable multimedia content such as digital images, however, is vulnerable to unauthorized access while in storage and during transmission over a network.... more
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      BusinessData CompressionChannel CodingSource Coding
Provision of seamless service to multimedia applications in cellular wireless networks largely depends on the way calls are handled during handoff. Hence, sufficient resources must be provided for handoff (HO) connections when a mobile... more
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      Computer ScienceDistributed ComputingWireless networksWireless Network
In this paper, we assess the state of the art of Quality of Services (QoS) support in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Unlike traditional end-to-end multimedia applications, many non-end-to-end mission-critical applications envisioned for... more
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      Wireless NetworkQuality of ServiceCommunication ProtocolLarge Scale
Ka-band (20/30 GHz) will be used extensively for fixed and mobile satellite communications in the next few years, especially for wide-band and multimedia applications. For this reason, a good knowledge of the propagation impairments and... more
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      EngineeringTechnologySatellite CommunicationMultimedia Application
Automatic discrimination of speech and music is an important tool in many multimedia applications. The paper presents a robust and effective approach for speech/music discrimination, which relies on a set of features derived from... more
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      Information SystemsComputer SoftwareFundamental FrequencyNew Music
These ten last years, the emergences of new applications through Internet such as multimedia applications VoIP, video broadcasting …) or networked control application, users need more and more quality of service (QoS) when using Internet.... more
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      Video BroadcastingQuality of ServiceInternet Service ProviderUser needs
Design of large WWW sites can be a very complex task if not supported by a suitable theoretical model. A good structural design model, in fact, is able to precisely define the information structures of this kind of multimedia applications... more
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      Design SupportInformation StructureVisual DesignStructural Design
OBJECTIVE -To evaluate a clinic-based multimedia intervention for diabetes education targeting individuals with low health literacy levels in a diverse population.
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      MultimediaDiabetesComputer LiteracyTreatment Outcome
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      EngineeringTechnologyComputer NetworksVoice over IP
Although often presented as a single basis for educational visual screen design, Gestalt theory is not a single small set of visual principles uniformly applied by all designers. In fact, it appears that instructional visual design... more
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      Interface DesignVisual DesignGraphic User Interface DesignIT Value
This paper presents a scalable rate control (SRC) scheme based on a more accurate second-order rate-distortion model. A sliding-window method for data selection is used to mitigate the impact of a scene change. The data points for... more
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      Image ProcessingStatistical AnalysisVideo CompressionAdaptive Signal Processing
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      Embedded SystemsMemory ManagementMobile ComputingOPERATING SYSTEM
The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) standard addresses compression of video signals at approximately 1.5M-bits. MPEG is a generic standard and is independent of any particular applications. Applications of compressed video on digital... more
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      Video CompressionMultimedia Application
The fast evolution of digital video has brought many new multimedia applications and, as a consequence, has increased the amount of research into new technologies that aim at improving the effectiveness and efficiency of video... more
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      Cognitive ScienceSignal ProcessingPattern RecognitionMechanism Design
Distributed multimedia applications will be an important part of tomorrow's application mix and require appropriate operating system (OS) support. Neither hard real-time solutions nor best-effort solutions are directly well suited for... more
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      Distributed ComputingMemory ManagementOPERATING SYSTEMComputer Communications
Recent advances in wireless communication have raised possibility of creating new sets of richer multimedia applications in wireless networks; on the other hand, despite the rapid evolution and growing popularity of mobile handheld... more
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      Wireless networksMobile ComputingControl SystemsVideo Streaming
A multimedia communication system includes both the communication protocols used to transport the real-time data and also the distributed computing system (DCS) within which any applications using these protocols must execute. The... more
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      Distributed ComputingMultimedia CommunicationReal TimeReal-Time Data Processing
This textbook is intended to give an introduction to and an overview of stateof-the-art techniques in the design of complex embedded systems.
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      Reconfigurable ComputingSignal ProcessingVideo CodingParallel Processing
This paper considers the implementation of cyclic codes encoder and decoder for multimedia content in the form of sound data using National Instruments LabView software. Cyclic codes can be defined by two parameters, which are code size n... more
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      Signal ProcessingError Correction CodingLabVIEWError control and Coding theory
Hardware/software codesign involves various design problems including system specification, design space exploration, hardware/software co-verification, and system synthesis. A codesign environment is a software tool that facilitates... more
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      Computer ScienceEmbedded SystemsDesign processFormal Specification
This paper presents a Bluetooth System on Chip (SOC) architecture for multimedia applications. The SOC includes all necessary baseband-parts, RF-parts, a sub-band codec (SBC) and an application processor to achieve a Bluetooth... more
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      Power ManagementSystem on ChipFlash memoryFrequency Synthesizer
This paper discusses the design and development of an animated folk tales edutainment software to motivate socio-cultural awareness among children and adolescents. One application of multimedia technology is in edutainment, which includes... more
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      Digital GamesDigital StorytellingSubstance AbuseCultural value
In recent years, Internet has known an unprecedented growth, which, in turn, has lead to an increased demand for real-time and multimedia applications that have high Quality-of-Service (QoS) demands. This evolution lead to difficult... more
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      Congestion ControlOrganizationQuality of ServiceInternet Service Provider
Workloads drive architecture design and will change in the next two decades. For high-performance, general-purpose processors, there is a consensus that multimedia will continue to grow in importance. The authors predict these processors... more
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      AnimationParallel ProcessingDigital Signal ProcessorsArchitectural Design
This paper presents fundamental aspects of MPLS over ATM method, IP over ATM method and multimedia application traffics with different quality of service (QoS) needs. Using a simulation program, the MPLS over ATM method providing ABR, CBR... more
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      Performance AnalysisQuality of ServiceMultimedia Application
This paper elaborates a study conducted to propose a folktale conceptual model based on folktale classification systems of type, motif, and function. Globally, three distinguish folktale classification systems exist and have been used for... more
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      Intangible cultural heritageFolk literatureFolkloristicsFolktale
In order to meet the increased computational demands of, e.g., multimedia applications, such as video processing in HDTV, and communication applications, such as baseband processing in telecommunication systems, the architectures of... more
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      Reconfigurable ComputingComputer HardwareComputer ModelMultimedia Application
In the recent years, Internet multimedia applications have become very popular. Valuable multimedia content such as digital images, however, is vulnerable to unauthorized access while in storage and during transmission over a network.... more
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      BusinessData CompressionChannel CodingCryptography
The main aspect of several multimedia applications is the transmission of Variable Bit Rate (VBR) video streams. Such applications require high bandwidth with stringent Quality of Service (QoS) guarantee. In such systems, a statistical... more
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      Distributed SystemVideo StreamingQuality of ServiceMultimedia signal processing
Based on recent theories of the L2 reading process that have focused on an interactive approach, i.e. the utilization of both top-down and bottom-up processing, this paper is concerned with the question of how reading comprehension can be... more
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      Coding TheoryMultimedia LearningReading ComprehensionLanguage Learning
This work presents an analysis based on a triple play transmission generated on two combined access technologies, PLC (Power Line Communications) and ADSL2+ (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line), called of pDSL. New services are based on... more
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      Internet Routing ProtocolPower Line CommunicationMultimedia CommunicationCase Study
The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), originally designed by 3GPP and later updated by 3GPP, 3GPP2 and TISPAN, presents itself as an architectural framework that allows the convergence of the Internet, wireless and wireline networks and a... more
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      Routing protocolsInteroperabilitySocial Networking ServicesWireless Network
The demand for high-speed services and multimedia applications anywhere and anytime has led to the rise of wireless communications. In particular, WiMAX technology is nowadays considered one of the most prominent solutions capable to... more
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      Distributed ComputingWireless NetworkBroadband Wireless AccessUrban Environment
Recent applications for distributed mobile devices, including multimedia video/audio streaming, typically process streams of incoming data in a regular, predictable way. The behavior of these applications during runtime can be accurately... more
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      Power QualityData AnalysisUser eXperienceMobile Computing
This paper is an extension from the previous paper entitled "Keyframe animation and motion capture for creating animation". In order to observe, analyse and compare the results between these two methods namely motion capture and keyframe... more
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      Information TechnologyArtAnimationComputer Animation
SIMD extensions are the most common technique used in current processors for multimedia computing. In order to obtain more performance for emerging applications SIMD extensions need to be scaled. In this paper we perform a scalability... more
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      Computer ArchitectureSystems AnalysisDigital Signal ProcessingMessage Oriented Middleware
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      Digital Signal ProcessingCircuits and SystemsEnergy ConsumptionQuality of Service
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      Video segmentationSemantic SearchSpeaker DiarizationMultimedia Application
This paper presents the WebDANCE project: Web Dance for All Using Advanced E-Learning Tools. WebDANCE promotes the use of new technologies in dance education and in particular (a) the use of interactive multimedia technologies (e.g.,... more
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      Conceptual ModellingInteractive MultimediaNew TechnologyLearning Environment