THERE has been an increasing interest in the research on multimedia indexing and retrieval based on subjective concepts, such as emotion, preference and aesthetics. The research efforts in this direction are considered human-centered and beyond the conventional keywordor (semantic) object-based multimedia analysis paradigm [1]. In addition, the problems addressed by these efforts are considered...

The paper addresses the interplay between arts in art practice of Ukraine at turn 21st century context changes that occurred connection with introduction Ukrainian artistic culture to new trends contemporary art. This phenomenon is analyzed using example activities Kharkiv-based artists, asthis large center Eastern has its deeply-rooted specific traditionіs: academic education and art-industria...

Multimedia content is becoming increasingly important in many areas not only for pure entertainment but also for commercial or educational purposes like, e.g., distance learning or online training. In parallel, the rapid evolution in the hardware sector brought up various new (mobile) end user devices like pocket PCs or mobile phones that are capable of displaying such content. Due to the diffe...

In her article "Innovation and Multimedia in the Poetry of cummings and Mayakovsky" Svetlana Nikitina discusses how e.e. cummings and Vladimir Mayakovsky foreshadowed the digital revolution of today in their multimedia experiments in poetry. Although they spoke different languages and lived in different societies, the two modernist poets display similarities in their modernist aesthetics. Both ...

Multimedia collections are more than ever growing in size and diversity. Effective multimedia retrieval systems are thus critical to access these datasets from the end-user perspective and in a scalable way. We are interested in repositories of image/text multimedia objects and we study multimodal information fusion techniques in the context of content based multimedia information retrieval. We...

There is very much interest in balancing remote delivered multimedia quality and energy consumption in a heterogeneous wireless network environment. This paper proposes a solution for Energy-efficient Device-differentiated Cooperative Adaptive Multimedia Delivery over wireless networks (EDCAM), a hybrid innovative approach which combines multimedia quality adaptation and content sharing mechani...

Multimedia imposes quite a number of specific issues and requirements on software. While system support for multimedia has been seriously investigated for serveral years now, the software engineering community has not yet reached a deep understanding of the impacts of multimedia on their field. MMSD’96 brought together a representative spectrum of researchers investigating this issue. Four gene...

Multimedia data is rapidly gaining importance along with recent developments such as the increasing deployment of surveillance cameras in public locations. In a few years time, analyzing the content of multimedia data will be a problem of phenomenal proportions, as digital video may produce data at rates beyond 100 Mb/s, and multimedia archives steadily run into Petabytes of storage space. Cons...

In this paper we present GINA, a game design workshop at the Industrial Design Faculty of the Politecnico di Milano, performed during the last two academic years with the students of the first year of the master course (Laurea Magistrale). GINA stands for Gioco (game) – Interazione (interaction) Narrazione (storytelling) – Animazione (animation). In these workshops Game Design is not seen as a ...

eChalk is a software system that transforms an electronic whiteboard into a teaching tool simulating a traditional chalkboard. In addition to writing and drawings, the electronic chalkboard handles a wide range of multimedia enhancements. These may be used to enliven the lessons by visualization, allowing the system to surpass the didactic potentials of the traditional chalkboard. In order to u...