Recent advances in storage, hardware, information technology, communication and networking have resulted in a large amount of multimedia data, such as image, audio and video. Multimedia data is used in a wide range of applications including entertainment, digital libraries, health care, and distant learning. The volume of multimedia data presents great challenges in data, analysis, indexing, re...

Multimedia technology is increasingly being used to create reliable and effective communication environments. However, the design of multimedia applications is currently driven more by intuition than by empirically or theoretically derived design guidelines. In a multimedia application, the software architecture is defined as a set of components manipulating various multimedia data types with s...

Advances in multimedia acquisition and storage technology have led to tremendous growth in very large and detailed multimedia databases. If these multimedia files are analyzed, useful information to users can be revealed. Multimedia mining deals with the extraction of implicit knowledge, multimedia data relationships, or other patterns not explicitly stored in multimedia files. Multimedia minin...