Due to the rapid growth of digital information over the Internet, it is becoming very important to extract useful information from web multimedia data. The WWW (World Wide Web) provides a simple and effective means for users to retrieve multimedia data on the Internet. Nowadays web multimedia data are used in a much more natural and mature way. Rapid increase in the huge amount of multimedia da...

The Internet is a heterogeneous network environment and the network resources that are available to multimedia applications can be modified very quickly. Multimedia applications must have the capability to adapt their operation to network changes. In order to add adaptation characteristics to multimedia applications, we can use techniques both at the network and application layers. Adaptive mul...

In recent years, along with the expansion of Web 2.0 and social networks, an extreme growth of multimedia content on the Web is registered. That multimedia content is mostly in the form of images and videos. To enable enhanced use, reuse and retrieval of multimedia content from the Web, that content needs to be annotated. Several multimedia metadata standards and a number of vocabularies common...

Committees Panel: Government Funding for Multimedia DBMS Research and Development The Role of Database Systems in the Management of Multimedia Information p. 4 STORM: Structural and Temporal Object-oriented Multimedia Database System p. 12 Views of Media Objects in Multimedia Databases p. 20 Synchronization Mechanisms for Distributed Multimedia Presentation Systems p. 30 Playout Management An I...

This paper describes the SIAM demonstrator, a system that illustrates the usefulness of indexing multimedia segments thanks to associated microblog posts. From a socialized multimedia content (i.e. video and associated microblog posts on Twitter), the system applies text mining techniques and derives a topic model to index socialized multimedia segments. That result may then be used inside many...