Web image search is inspired by text search techniques; it mainly relies on indexing textual data that surround the image file. But retrieval results are often noisy and image pro...
Abstract There are increasing demands on portable communication devices to run multimedia applications. ISO (an International Organization for Standardization) standard MPEG-4 is a...
Proxies are commonly used to cache objects, especially multimedia objects, so that clients can enjoy better quality-of-service (QoS) guarantees such as smaller startup latency and...
A low-complexity three-dimensional image compression algorithm based on wavelet transforms and set-partitioning strategy is presented. The Subband Block Hierarchial Partitioning (...
Detecting the presence of musical sounds in broadcast audio is important for content-based indexing and retrieval of auditory and visual information in radio and TV programs. In t...