One of the major issues raised by Digital Rights Management systems concerns the protection of the user’s privacy and anonymous consumption of content. However, most existing li...
With the improvement of network bandwidth, multimedia services based on streaming live media have gained much attention recently, among which IPTV has become a hot topic. After em...
The increasing heterogeneity of mobile client devices used to access the Web requires run-time adaptations of the Web contents. A significant trend in these content adaptation se...
Video document retrieval is now an active part of the domain of multimedia retrieval. However, unlike for other media, the management of a collection of video documents adds the pr...
This paper proposes camera and media stream management techniques at the middleware level for implementing a U-City (ubiquitous city). The study focuses on overcoming the difficult...