The future of interactive multimedia design education depends upon the disintegration of discipline-based boundaries within the higher education system. Disciplines outside of computer science and computer art contribute significantly to the understanding of the cultural and social implications of the medium. A cross-disciplinary approach enables students to explore new ideas that inform their ...

The field of multimedia software engineering is still in an inmature state. Significant research and development has been dedicated towards multimedia services and systems technology such as networking or database systems. Multimedia document formats have been standardized. But when it comes to multimedia application development, the development process is truncated to an implement-and-test met...

Multimedia objects can be retrieved using their context that can be for instance the text surrounding them in documents. This text may be either near or far from the searched objects. Our goal in this paper is to study the impact, in term of effectiveness, of text position relatively to searched objects. The multimedia objects we consider are described in structured documents such as XML ones. ...

A growing number of research approaches are focusing on combining multimedia retrieval processing with semantics and knowledge based methods in order to achieve higher-level understanding of multimedia content. This research direction, often called semantic multimedia, combines techniques such as low-level multimedia feature extraction and common semantic representation schemes for features and...

T he First IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM 2015) took place at the Chinese National Convention Center in Beijing, China, from 20–22 April 2015. This conference was jointly sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (TCMC) and IEEE Technical Committee on Semantic Computing (TCSEM) and was hosted by Peking University. The motivation for organizin...

Preserving interactive multimedia artworks is a challenging research field due to their complex nature and technological obsolescence. Established preservation strategies are inadequate since they do not cover the relations between analogue digital components, short life expectancies, experience produced when activated. The existence of many projects in this area highlights urgency create pract...