ÐAs more information sources become available in multimedia systems, the development of abstract semantic models for video, audio, text, and image data becomes very important. An abstract semantic model has two requirements: It should be rich enough to provide a friendly interface of multimedia presentation synchronization schedules to the users and it should be a good programming data structur...

This paper reports our multimedia information retrieval experiments carried out for the ImageCLEF track (ImageCLEFwiki). The task is to answer to user information needs, i.e. queries which may be composed of several modalities (text, image, concept) with ranked lists of relevant documents. The purpose of our experiments is twofold: firstly, our overall aim is to develop a multimedia document mo...

Text embedded in images or videos is indispensable to understand multimedia information. In this paper we propose a new text detection method using the texture feature derived from text strokes. The method consists of four steps: wavelet multiresolution decomposition, thresholding and pixel labeling, text detection using texture features from strokes, and refinement of mask image. Experiment re...

Content-based video retrieval is emerging as an important part in the process of utilization of various multimedia documents. In this report we present a novel system for the automatic indexing and content-based retrieval of multimedia documents. We chose the domain of Formula 1 sport videos because the manual annotation of Formula 1 races is complicated and time consuming. Our system uses mult...

Inside Chapter There is an increasing interest and effort in preserving and documenting endangered languages. Language data are valuable only when they are well-cataloged, indexed and searchable. Many language data, particularly those of lesser-spoken languages, are collected as audio and video recordings. While multimedia data provide more channels and dimensions to describe a language's funct...

For many years, people have consumed more multimedia content than written information. Yet the tools consumers use to find the content they want to see are often based on text. Hence, despite years of vibrant research, the multimedia field has been criticized for a lack of real-world applications. A recent panel discussion on multimedia search had the revealing title: Multimedia Information Ret...

This study is an investigation of the use of multimedia components such as visual text, spoken text, and graphics in a Web-based self-instruction program to increase learners’ English vocabulary learning at Myungin Middle School in Seoul, South Korea. A total of 172 middle school students (14 years of age) in five classes participated in the study. Each individual was required to complete sever...

As more information sources become available in multimedia systems, the development of abstract semantic models for video, audio, text, and image data becomes very important. An abstract semantic model has two requirements. First, it should be rich enolugh to provide a friendly interface of multimedia presentation synchronization schedules to tlie users. Second, it should be a good programming ...

A multimedia blog creation system is described that uses Japanese dialogue with an intelligent robot. Although multimedia blogs are increasing in popularity, creating blogs is not easy for users who lack highlevel information literacy skills. Even skilled users have to waste time creating and assigning text descriptions to their blogs and searching related multimedia such as images, music, and ...

one of the most adaptable and fast-paced media in today’s world is internet. we can access to what we are looking for by proper connections in internet. universities are among those organizations that by designing websites use internet for interacting with their clients including faculty members, students and other interested people. websites are a collection of files, graphics, media, contents...