In this work we present a novel multi-modal mixed-state dynamic Bayesian network (DBN) for robust meeting event classification. The model uses information from lapel microphones,...
Preemption of low priority call connections to accommodate high priority call connections is a widely recommended technique in a multimedia communication network. A preemption pol...
The need for personalized summaries of media content has been driven by the recent and anticipated explosive growth in the media world. In this paper we present a methodology and ...
Lalitha Agnihotri, John R. Kender, Nevenka Dimitro...
Multi-homed mobile devices have multiple wireless communication interfaces, each connecting to the Internet via a low speed and bursty WAN link such as a cellular link. We propose...
To realize the long-term goal of ubiquitous computing, technological advances in multi-channel acoustic analysis are needed in order to solve several basic problems, including spe...
Dusan Macho, Jaume Padrell, Alberto Abad, Climent ...
Bitstream switching is an effective way to deal with bandwidth variation in transmitting multimedia over time-varying channels. A number of bitstream switching mechanisms have bee...
A complete MPEG-4 stream consists of many elementary streams which may be generated by different authors. In the scenario of this paper, each author signs his own authentic elemen...
Rotational motion can often be seen in video. However, comparatively little research has been done to investigate rotational motions in video, whose analysis could be useful. For ...
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of keypoint methods for content-based protection of digital images. These methods identify a set of “distinctive” regions (termed keypoi...
The scalability extension of H.264/AVC [1] uses a layered approach for providing spatial, temporal, and SNR scalability. Due to this concept, only a restricted set of spatio-tempo...
Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Schierl, Thoma...