Multimedia signal processing (MMSP) refers to of signals from multiple media—speech, audio, images, text, graphics, point clouds, etc.—often jointly. This article reviews the history MMSP and, in parallel, Technical Committee (TC), with a focus on last three decades ( Figure...

The popularity of personal digital cameras and online photo/video sharing community has lead to an explosion of multimedia information. Unlike traditional multimedia data, many new multimedia datasets are organized in a structural way, incorporating rich information such as semantic ontology, social interaction, community media, geographical maps, in addition to the multimedia contents by thems...

Internet is being used more pervasively for multimedia retrieval, multimedia transmission and rendering. However, little work has gone on the Internet based multimedia modeling integrating user interaction, asynchronous and non-deterministic multimedia events, multiple multimedia streams, and their synchronization. In this paper, we describe a new and novel XML based multimedia language ‘TANDEM...