development are increasingly driven by social, artistic, and local cultural concepts and needs. Instead of discussing generic tools and models, we can analyze the relationship between multimedia content, location, and culture, as well as how we interact with multimedia under the auspices of critical interaction design. The implications go beyond creative development (software as art and softwar...

This special section is committed to capture the state-of-the-art and recent advances on various aspects of intelligent multimedia system and data management for ubiquitous computing (Ubi-Com). It aims to bring together the researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of intelligent multimedia system ...

Wireless multimedia sensor networks will play a central role in the Internet of Things world, providing content-rich information for an uncountable number of monitoring and control scenarios. As more applications rely on multimedia data, security concerns gain attention, and new approaches arise to provide security for such networks. However, the usual resource constraints of processing, memory...

In this paper, we present the current state of the art in semantic data modeling of multimedia data. Semantic conceptualization can be performed at several levels of information granularity, leading to multilevel indexing and searching mechanisms. Various models at different levels of granularity are compared. At the finest level of granularity, multimedia data can be indexed based on image con...

convictions are strong that multimedia courseware holds great promise for enhancing learning efficiency among learners. this study thus aimed at comparing the effects of the multimedia programs introducing 100 vocabulary items through pictures and streaming video with those of teacher instruction on increasing efl learners’ vocabulary repertoire. a total of 120 subjects were identified as inter...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of blended learning and multimedia software on iranian esp students' vocabulary learning. to this end, 120 iranian esp learners were assigned to two groups: the experimental and control groups. the experimental group received instructions through multimedia software while the control group received traditional instructions. the data were c...

The aim of this work is to furnish the guidelines for the design of a multimedia system for the representation of works of art. A work of art can be interpreted in a number of ways. There have been many theories on analyzing an image as a whole, and as constituent parts of a whole. There have also been many theories on how to interpret its (more or less obvious) contents and relate them to the ...

This tutorial aims at providing a unified and comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art approaches to distance-based multimedia indexing.