Online social video applications, combining video watching with social media, are gaining in popularity. However, evaluation tools that focus on optimally supporting social interaction (i.e. sociability) when designing social video applications are still lacking. We have created a list of sociability heuristics for social interactive television applications, but it is unsure if these can be app...

Digital video is a group of moving visual images, text and sounds. The popularity of using digital video in Internet leads to illicit copying and dispersal of content. In order to avoid this, video watermarking technique are used as a preventive measure for illegal copying of copyrighted material. In this paper, watermarking algorithm for identification of optimal frames and embedding of nested...

In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of an XML-Based Digital Video Library (XDVL) System. The system includes automatic processes from video creation through video delivery, which involves storing, searching, indexing and retrieval of video contents. It also allows users to search for videos based on various kinds of information using a multi-lingual approach. We adopt a mul...

Video lessons are increasingly adopted in education, especially in universities and lifelong learning projects. Their popularity is due to the people's familiarity with video and to other intrinsic characteristics of this medium, such as the message rapidity and its reproducibility. Accordingly, Massive Open Online Courses are gaining a prominent role in both formal and informal education and m...

Distributed multimedia systems and applications are characterized by their strong requirements for huge storage spaces and timing synchronization to meet clients demands. Therefore, multimedia data storage has become a critical issue in relation to the Quality of Service (QoS) of multimedia applications. This paper introduces a popularity-based model where multimedia(video) data representation ...

The increasing popularity of HTTP adaptive video streaming services has dramatically increased bandwidth requirements on operator networks, which attempt to shape their traffic through Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). However, Google and certain content providers have started to encrypt their video services. As a result, operators often encounter difficulties in shaping their encrypted video traff...

This essay examines the conditions behind the 'Philippine Prison Thriller' video, a YouTube spectacle featuring the 1,500 inmates of Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Centre (CPDRC) dancing to Michael Jackson's hit song 'Thriller'. The video achieved viral status after it was uploaded onto the video-sharing platform in 2007, and sparked online debates as to whether this video, contai...

Online video, a ubiquitous, visual, and highly shareable medium, is well-suited to crossing geographic, cultural, and linguistic barriers. Trending videos in particular, by virtue of reaching a large number of viewers in a short span of time, are powerful as both influencers and indicators of international communication flows. In this work, we study a large set of videos trending across 57 nati...

With the rapid growth in popularity of wireless data services and the increasing demand for wireless connectivity, Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) have become more widespread and are making their way into commercial and public areas being almost everywhere including business, office and home deployments. WLANs based on the IEEE 802.11 standards enjoy an exceptionally high popularity owing ...