Recently, multimedia streaming services over IEEE 802.11 based wireless networks have increased dramatically. This results in manifold increase in the bandwidth requirement, especially for high-quality multimedia services. Given the bandwidth constraint in the wireless networks, one of the most critical factors in improving the end-to-end performance of multimedia application is the fast and ac...

Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) have emerged and shifted the focus from the typical scalar wireless sensor networks to networks with multimedia devices that are capable to retrieve video, audio, images, as well as scalar sensor data. WMSNs are able to deliver multimedia content due to the availability of inexpensive CMOS cameras and microphones coupled with the significant progress ...

The semantics of multimedia data, which features context-dependency and media-independency, is of vital importance to multimedia applications but inadequately supported by the state-of-the-art database technology. In this paper, we address this problem by proposing MediaView as an extended object-oriented view mechanism to bridge the “semantic gap” between conventional databases and semantics-i...

| The availability of low-cost hardware is enabling the development of wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs), i.e., networks of resource-constrained wireless devices that can retrieve multimedia content such as video and audio streams, still images, and scalar sensor data from the environment. In this paper, ongoing research on prototypes of multimedia sensors and their integration into t...

The popularity and evolution of mobile devices like laptops, mobile phones and Personal Digital Assistants (PDA), and the evolution of fast mobile networks in the last decade, have made it possible to increase the complexity of mobile applications and services provided to end-users. It is also a spectacular growth in multimedia communication especially via the World Wide Web. The current state ...

T he 21st International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM 2015) was organized by the University of Technology, Sydney, and held 5–7 January 2015 at the Aerial UTS Function Centre in Sydney, Australia. MMM 2015 received approximately 200 submissions across four categories: main conference full paper submissions, special session full paper submissions, demonstration submissions, and video se...

Cornell University's Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art is an archival repository and study center with a broad array of international new media art and its documentation. In 2002, I founded the Archive, which I continue to develop and curate in the Cornell Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. The Goldsen Archive profits from this Division's commitment to the public access ...

In this paper we analyse the representation of the visual arts on the Internet through an examination of three main questions: a) How can multimedia technologies (re)present visual art in innovative ways that effectively and appropriately communicate meanings to the vieweduser? b) How can the language or languages of multimedia technologies be best used to communicate the language or languages ...

The perceived benefits of computing applications involving the use of media types such as voice and video, in addition to the more traditional text medium, have generated considerable research interest in recent years. This paper examines the state-of-the-art in multimedia computing from a mainly technological viewpoint. Following a brief review of progress to date in multimedia computing and a...

With the fast development of mobile communication technologies and increased capabilities of smart terminals, the multimedia service has become one of the most attractive applications in mobile Internet. And the combination of socialbased mobile multimedia and mobile peer-to-peer (P2P) network has attracted increasing research interests in recent years. However, how to deploy large scale P2P-ba...