Multimedia Applications

In the future we envision systems that will provide video information delivery services to customers on a very large scale. These systems must provide customers with mechanisms to select programs of their choice from live broadcasts. Customers should also be provided with easy means of browsing and accessing pre-recorded digital data (e.g., distributed digital multimedia libraries), and downloading data from other information sources. To be viable for such large information sets, these systems must understand customer preferences and tailor the available information to the customer's needs.

... Eventually the plasticity of digital media is a great menace. Any malevolent user (a pirate) can modify an image at will. ... the pirate is confronted with a strong phase acquisi-tion problem: "How to choose the phase of the MLS carrier during the reception process?". ...

One of the disputable issues in the new generation of multimedia networks that requires to be concentrated is decreasing the signal delay and bit error rate and increasing the network efficiency and quality. This study evaluates the results of uplink 10Gbps base-band radio over 30km coarse wavelength division multiplexing single mode fiber in three important factors for multimedia communication system, minimum bit error rate, quality factor and signal delay (real-time system) based on the range (0.2 to 0.3 dB/km) of optical fiber attenuation.

Server that was demonstrated during the rst public trial of the ACTS project SICMA, which took place at the Natural History Museum of London and in the Gallo Romeins Museum of Tongeren Belgium, from June to September of 1997. The demonstrator application, namely the Virtual Museum", is also presented. The SICMA server complies to the DAVIC standard and is built on top of the KYDONIA multimedia information server. Core DAVIC Server Service elements Service Gateway, Stream, Content, File have been developed and the DAVIC User Plane information ows S1 and S2 are supported.

The Makaton Vocabulary Development Project is a widely used communication system designed for individuals with speech and communication disabilities. It enables educators to teach students how to communicate alternatively through selection and combination of visual representations, symbols, words, gestures and sounds. Our analysis has indicated various difficulties that arise in the manual application of the above system, as customisation to individual student-needs is needed, presenting a complex and time-consuming task for the educator. This paper presents the development of a novel communication environment that permits students to use the Makaton method through an open media-rich, adaptable easily extendable interactive multimedia application. The environment is tested in two focus groups and the results and observations are discussed. The method of knowledge-base extension is presented, targeting the development of an internet-based virtual learning environment for special needs.

The ACTS project MOVE currently designs and develops a middleware architecture called Voice-Enabled Mobile Application Support Environment (VE-MASE). The VE-MASE enhances the middleware architecture, which was developed in the ACTS project OnThe-Move, by providing support for interactive real-time multimedia applications and integrated voice and data services. In preparation for future 3rd generation mobile networks, the aim is to enable a completely new class of interactive multimedia services targeted at, but not limited to, mobile devices that are equipped with the VE-MASE. This paper discusses the VE-MASE component called Audio Gateway, which is responsible for providing Internet Telephony services to mobile users.

In this work a new Bangla speech corpus along with proper transcriptions has been developed; also
various acoustic feature extraction methods have been investigated using Long Short-Term Memory
(LSTM) neural network to find their effective integration into a state-of-the-art Bangla speech recognition
system. The acoustic features are usually a sequence of representative vectors that are extracted from
speech signals and the classes are either words or sub word units such as phonemes. The most commonly
used feature extraction method, known as linear predictive coding (LPC), has been used first in this work.
Then the other two popular methods, namely, the Mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) and
perceptual linear prediction (PLP) have also been applied. These methods are based on the models of the
human auditory system. A detailed review of the implementation of these methods have been described
first. Then the steps of the implementation have been elaborated for the development of an automatic
speech recognition system (ASR) for Bangla speech.

High efficiency video coding (HEVC) is the newest video codec to increase significantly the coding efficiency of its ancestor H.264/Advance Video Coding. However, the HEVC delivers a highly increased computation complexity. In this paper, a coding unit partitioning pattern optimization method based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) is proposed to reduce the computational complexity of hierarchical quadtree-based coding unit partitioning. The required coding unit partitioning pattern for exhaustive partitioning and the rate distortion cost are efficiently considered as the chromosome and the fitness function of the PSO, respectively. To reduce the computational time, the cellular automata-based (CA) rule based time limit is used in order to find out the best possible modes of operation. Compared to the current state of the art algorithms, this scheme is computationally simple and achieves superior reconstructed video quality (12% increase in PSNR compared to existing methods) at less computational complexity (overall delay by 40%), Increasing the bandwidth and reducing the errors..

Abstracs-State Junior High School 3 Majalengka as Stubs Internasional Standard School has the burden of responsibility for conducting ICT-based education. It needs to be supported by Human Resounces that are reliable, so that learning systems are manufactured by Human Resources that are reliable, manufactured and prepared in accordance with the rules of education and curriculum used. In presenting the teaching materials are converted into a form of teaching materials animatif, attractive and informative, the need for an analysis and specific research that teaching material are presented in accordance with the wishes of schools and student. So thus the need for this research. With use traditional guidelines of good graphic design principles, the analysis results in accordance with the tastes of the researcher gave the questionnaire, and resume teaching materials offered by Master Teacher, then these materials can be referred to as the Multimedia Educational Games Applications RSBI SMP Negeri 3 Majalengka is right on target and help schools in implementing ICT-based learning.

Real Industry Projects and team work can have a great impact on student learning but providing these activities requires significant commitment from academics. It requires several years planning implementing to create a collaborative learning environment that mimics the real world ICT (Information and Communication Technology) industry workplace. In this project, staff from all the three faculties, namely the Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science, Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development, and Faculty of Business and Law in higher education work together to establish a detailed project management plan and to develop the unit guidelines for participating students. The proposed project brings together students from business, multimedia and computer science degrees studying their three project-based units within each faculty to work on a relatively large IT project with our industry partner, Melbourne Zoo. This paper presents one multimedia software project accomplished by one of the multi-discipline student project teams. The project was called ‘Interactive ZooOz Guide’ and developed on a GPS-enabled PDA device in 2007. The developed program allows its users to navigate through the Zoo via an interactive map and provides multimedia information of animals on hotspots at the ‘Big Cats’ section of the Zoo so that it enriches user experience at the Zoo. A recent development in zoo applications is also reviewed. This paper is also intended to encourage academia to break boundaries to enhance students’ learning beyond classroom.

In this paperwe discussed how to incorporate haptic signals with a dynamic image sequence or other words a videoto feel the motion of objects in it.Haptic technologies are being used in a wide range of application areas. However, the incorporation of haptic interface technology into a video media is still in its infancy. With the invention of digital multimedia and immersive displays, significance of exploring new ways of interacting with video media has grown up. Rather than just seeing and hearing a video, viewers' experience can be further enhanced by letting them feel the movement of the objects in the video through haptic interface, as it is an additional sensation to seeing and hearing. The objective of this research is to use haptic interface technology to interact with a video and enable the viewers to feel the motion of objects in the video beyond passive watching and listening. In this paper, we discuss how to feel the motion, which is computed from frame to frame calculation of velocity using optical flow. For haptic motion rendering, we have proposed a method by experimentallyevaluating two methods using a gain controller and using a non-linear function. To interact with the video we used the string based haptic device, SPIDAR, which provides a high definition force feedback sensation to users.

Abstract: Multimedia applications and platforms are widely being accepted in industry, business, and academia as an alternative to classical communication equipment and techniques. Applications and platforms like distance learning, video conferencing, instant messaging, on-demand entertainment and group collaborations are the general usage areas. Advancement in the multimedia industry evolved around the development of infrastructure for delivery and algorithms for content compression. Though, end-to-end quality is not only affected by such factors. Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) and their particular configurations also play a vital role in the customer's perceived quality i.e. Quality of Experience (QoE). An effort was required to identify the most influential parameters affecting an interactive communication application. Experiments conducted using the Design of Experiment (DOE) technique which helped in the sensitivity analysis. In this study, three parameters Resolution Limit (RL), Scaling Factor (SF), and Frames per Seconds (FPS) were identified from the literature. The experiment was conducted in a controlled environment as per the L9 orthogonal array. Correlation and Fleiss Kappa were used for data validation whereas Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) analysis was performed to identify the most influential parameter. SNR analysis helped us conclude that FPS is the most influential parameter that affects video quality at the CPE.

This paper intends to analyze subjective measurements of intelligibility of speech on Albanian language during the conversation between two people using applications which today are very used for communication such as Skype and Viber. The measurement is done as follows: on the entry part of the transmission system sentences or words are spoken or just syllables while on receiving part is recorded what is heard; the percentage of words, sentences or syllables correctly received, on proportion to those imposed on the entry of the system, providing the percentage of intelligibility (the words, sentences or syllables). Methods of measurements are made at different speed of the Internet, in an environment without noise and with noise, in order to see the impact on understanding of the speech with different target parameters. Keywords: Intelligibility Measurment noise Multimedia applications Word error rate

The International Journal of Multimedia & Its Applications (IJMA) is a bi monthly open access peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles which contribute new results in all areas of the Multimedia & its applications. The journal focuses on all technical and practical aspects of Multimedia and its applications. The goal of this journal is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on understanding recent developments this arena, and establishing new collaborations in these areas.

Authors are solicited to contribute to the journal by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the areas of Multimedia & its applications

The active networking paradigm corresponds to an initiative including projects, developments and implementations searching for a new communication concept/ paradigm allowing fast, safe and efficient communications. The basic target is to provide, among other features and services, the management and configuration of new and complex network services and equipments (backbones), supporting dynamically the quality of service (QoS) needs of the new multimedia applications, so often pointed as the trend in the web world. This paper evaluates experimentally and objectively the usability of a specific active networking implementation architecture (ANTS) focusing on the dynamic configuration of backbone routers for supporting QoS in a multimedia applications scenario. The paper describes the evaluated architecture, proposes two implementation scenarios and evaluates experimentally their use for dynamic routers configuration.

The International Journal of Managing Public Sector Information and Communication Technologies (IJMPICT) is a quarterly open access peer-reviewedjournal that publishes articles that contribute new results in regards to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the public sector around the world. ICT are becoming fundamental to the operation of government agencies, especially in light of the development of e-government applications and rising citizen expectations. As such, the International Journal of Managing Public Sector Information and Communication Technologies (IJMPICT) seeks to establish new collaborations, new best practices, and new theories in public sector organizations around the world in regards to developing, applying, managing, measuring, monitoring, procuring, and securing ICT in governmental operations (including civilian, military, health care and education applications). The journal thus provides a platform to disseminate new ideas and new research, advance theories, and propagate best practices in the management of ICT in public sector organizations at the international, national, state/provincial and local levels. The International Journal of Managing Public Sector Information and Communication Technologies (IJMPICT) offers a forum in which academics, consultants, and practitioners in a variety of fields can exchange ideas to further research and improve practices in all areas of governmental operations and ICT strategies. Authors are solicited to contribute to the journal by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and organizational experiences that describe significant advances in information and communication technologies in governmental organizations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

—According To current technology there is lots of future scope in area of internet of things, Video/audio processing etc. For these are there is need of lots of sensor and multimedia design which is use full in these area. We also know in present era every system work on battery power only. So there is need of fast and energy aware system which will reduce the battery consumption issue and run system for long time. As we know in present stage ever one doing real time image/video transmission. Due to real time may be some time there is image quality will decrease so for improvement of those real time image there is need of De-noising approach which is well known as Smooth filter. In this paper basically we did a comparative study about the existing different types of De-noising filter.

Soccer event detection deals with identifying interesting segments in soccer video via audio/visual content analysis. This task enables automatic high-level index creation, which circumvents large-scale manual annotation and facilitates semantic-based retrieval. This thesis proposes two frameworks for event detection through collaborative analysis of textual, aural and visual features. The frameworks share a common initial component where both utilize an external textual resource, which is the minute-by-minute (MBM) reports from sports broadcasters, to accurately localize sections of video containing the desired events. The first framework identifies
an initial estimate of an eventful segment via audio energy analysis. Visual semantic features are then observed to further refine the detected eventful segment. The second framework
implements a ranking procedure where semantic visual features are firstly analyzed to generate a shortlist of candidates. This is followed by aural or visual analysis to rank the actual eventful candidate top-most within the respective shortlist. Both frameworks rely on uncomplicated audio/visual feature sets, which is the main advantage compared to previously proposed works. Furthermore, manually labeled data are not needed since audio/visual considerations are based on automatically classified semantic visual features and low-level aural calculations. Evaluation made over a large video dataset shows promising results for goal, penalty, yellow card, red card and substitution events detection.

and networks that support multimedia and real-time applications. This obviously puts an immense pressure on battery of any mobile device. The CMOS has been the leading technology in today's world of mobile communication due to its low power consumption. Reduction of leakage power in CMOS has been the research interest for the last couple of years. In CMOS integrated circuit design there is an important trade-off between technology scaling and static power consumption. In today's CMOS technology the leakage power consumption plays a significant role. As we approaching to nano-scale design the total chip power consumption becomes dependent on leakage power. Increasing the battery life in mobile wireless communication and mobile computing and similar other applications is the topic of research now-a days... Further, since the leakage of battery exists even when devices are in idle state makes leakage power loss most critical in CMOS VLSI circuits. Many techniques have been evolved to tackle the problem and its still in progress. This paper mainly focuses on the review of various works done in this field till today's date. Further a review of recent work done on a new technique LSSR (Lector Stack State Retention Technique) is discussed in the paper.