Multimedia reasoning, which is suitable for, among others, multimedia content analysis and high-level video scene interpretation, relies on the formal and comprehensive conceptualization of the represented knowledge domain. However, most multimedia ontologies are not exhaustive in terms of role definitions, and do not incorporate complex role inclusions and role interdependencies. In fact, most...

In this work the development and deployment of a new concept of cartoon-generation on a mobile phone is presented. An interactive multimedia application was designed for a push-approach of sending short e-cartoons from a mobile phone to a central WEB server. The concept of a unique cartoon-generator will be discussed. The multimedia Authoring Environment Flash was used for the interactive appli...

This paper presents an application programming interface (API) for users to select and activate multime-dia services in a multivendor environment. This API hides the complexities and details of handling these complex services from the application developers. An abstract model has been deened that accommodates an extensive set of services involving communication and end-systems. The paper deenes...

Recent years have seen a veritable boom in multimedia applications. Due to the ubiquitous computing paradigm and evolution, there is now a great need for distributed multimedia applications, in particular. However, the majority of these multimedia applications place high demand on quality of service (QoS) with respect to the communication and end systems. Until recently, most of these applicati...

Today, we are surrounded by a constantly growing number of networked multimedia devices. These devices offer high-quality input and output capabilities often together with enough computing power and programmability to perform a variety of multimedia operations. However, integrating and controlling these distributed devices from an application is difficult because of the variety of underlying te...

The rapid development of technology in Internet and wireless communication makes it possible for people to access multimedia contents and services using handheld devices. However, most multimedia contents and services in the Web are optimized for desktop computing environment. They contain rich media data, which are not suitable for handheld devices with limited capabilities and resources. More...

This paper studies implementation issues of Parlay X “Multimedia Streaming Control” and “Applicationdriven Quality of Service” web services in the Evolved Packet System (EPS). EPS is defined as evolution of mobile communication networks with broadband radio interface and Internet Protocol (IP) based core. The main signalling protocols in EPS used for multimedia session management and quality of...

Future high-speed computer networks are projected to carry dizzying array of networked multimedia applications including digital libraries, video and image servers, distance learning collaboration, networked virtual environments, and entertainment. A common threat to these applications is the so-called continuous nature of the data. Video-on-demand (VOD) application is a networked multimedia ap...

New deployment scenarios tend to consider the requirement of session continuity for service provisioning, especially multimedia streaming, to limited heterogeneous portable devices roaming among wireless localities. In particular, multimedia streaming should not experience any interruption while clients roam in wired-wireless integrated networks based on the standard besteffort Internet. The pa...

Agricultural resource management is one of important technologies in agricultural application. The new technology, geo-referenced spatial multimedia has revolutionized the data collection, storage, management and display for agricultural resource management. This paper presents geo-referenced spatial multimedia technology including the system architecture, data collection procedures and data pr...