This paper deals with the implementation of real-time digital musical sound synthesizers by the Plug-In method in the Sun Microsystems Java Media Framework environment. This environment use the Plug-In technology as well as the DirectX or VST environments, but the implementation methods are different. 1. JAVA MEDIA FRAMEWORK Java is object-oriented multi-platform programming language developed ...

A prototype system for implementing a virtual Personal Aerobics Trainer (PAT) is presented. Unlike workout video tapes or TV exercise shows, this system allows the user to create and personalize an aerobics session to meet the user's needs and desires. Various media technology and computer vision algorithms are used to enhance the interaction of a virtual instructor by enabling it to watch and ...

A prototype system for implementing a virtual Personal Aerobics Trainer (PAT) is presented. Unlike workout video tapes or TV exercise shows, this system allows the user to create and personalize an aerobics session to meet the user's needs and desires. Various media technology and computer vision algorithms are used to enhance the interaction of the character by enabling it to watch and talk to...

a huge amount of information available to anyone at the touch of a button, everything from airline schedules to esoteric scientific journals to video versions of off-off-off Broadway. Watching a movie won’t be a passive experience. At various points, you’ll click on alternative story lines and create your individualized version of “Terminator XII”. Consumers will send as well as receive all kin...

The purpose of this investigation was to study children's exposure to background noise at the ears during a normal day at the day care center and also to relate this to a perceptual evaluation of voice quality. Ten children, from three day care centers, with no history of hearing and speech problems or frequent infections were selected as subjects. A binaural recording technique was used with t...

Nocturnal wheeze and cough are considered to be common features of asthma. Previous studies suggested that nocturnal asthma was related to many factors, including allergen exposure, decreased mucociliary clearance, or circadian rhythm of circulating hormones and nervous tone.1 However, little is known about the influence of sleep on persistent wheeze in asthmatic patients. To study whether asth...

digital recording, DVC format, 8-8 DCT, 2-4-8 DCT A fast algorithm is developed for direct conversions between the 2-4-8 DCT mode associated with the digital video cassette (DVC) standard and the ordinary 8-8 DCT associated with other formats of compressed video. The algorithm avoids explicit transformations to and from the original pixel domain and thus saves a considerable amount of computati...

One of the results of the theater was a flurry of requests to obtain one or more of the tapes, for study, or to show to colleagues or students. In response to those requests, Sally Morton has organized the Statistical Graphics Video Library. It is currently composed of the material that has appeared in the video show, but over time will pick up new contributions. The library also serves as an a...

Reverse playback is the most common video cassette recording (VCR) functions in many digital video players. However, the predictive processing techniques employed in MPEG severely complicate the reverse-play operation. In this paper, we propose a compressed-domain approach for the efficient implementation of an MPEG video streaming system to provide the reverse-play operation over a network wit...