Distributed multimedia computing is seen as the next generation of information technology. This new technology has both the potential to create new application areas and augment those that already exist. This paper introduces multimedia and describes the characteristics of multimedia information. Those application areas where this new technology is having a significant impact are also discussed...

Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) have entered the class of Wireless Sensor Networks to meet the multimedia requirements of new emerging applications, such as surveillance and telepresence. WMSNs commonly carry heterogeneous traffic with different Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. In this paper, the state of the art in QoS, protocols, Test beds, Simulators and the QoS requirement...

Art education an important part of aesthetic education. It is indispensable for the comprehensive and healthy development human beings. The basic task to cultivate creative ability, aesthetics, apprec iation. conducive improving humanistic cultivation young students, enhancing spiritual realm beings, cultivating ability people. has irreplaceable social, cultural, an-thropological significance p...

This paper describes the design principles and the main technical solutions of an interactive multimedia guide for an art exhibition about Ethiopian Christian art at Ca’ Foscari in Venice, Italy. The guide has been implemented on an iPod touch, aiming at coupling rich multimedia content with a natural interaction style. The design is based on the Apple version of the Webkit development environm...

Please refer to this article as: Kirschner, F., Kester, L., & Corbalan, G. (in press). Cognitive load theory and multimedia learning, task characteristics, and learner engagement: The current state of the art. Computers in Human Behavior. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2010.05.003 Cognitive Load Theory and Multimedia Learning, Task Characteristics and Learning Engagement: The Current State of the Art Femke ...

The interdisciplinary HERON project investigates the impact of multimedia applications from the humanities, in particular heraldry, on future database technology. We present rst evaluation results of querying image databases by visual content. Also the requirements of a digital workbench for art historians are described. Here we present an approach how to tackle the complex problem of exchangin...

Data transfers and storage are dominating contributors to the area and power consumption for all modern multimedia applications. A cost-efficient realisation of these systems can be obtained by using high-level memory optimisations. This paper demonstrates that the state-of-the-art memory optimisation techniques only partly can deal with code from real-life multimedia applications. We propose a...