A variety of digital watermarking applications have emerged recently that require the design of systems for embedding one signal (the "embedded signal" or "watermar...
We present a semi-automatic image-based modeling system to make 3-D models from photographs. The human operator intervenes only for simple and straightforward tasks. The design of...
The Internet plays host to many millions of documents and images and is increasing in size all the time. As a result locating web content is becoming increasingly difficult for us...
The Virtual European School (VES) is an ongoing European project - funded by the Educational Multimedia Task Force Initiative of the European Union - with the aim to develop a com...
This (short) paper presents the Clockwise, a mixedmedia file system. The primary goal of the Clockwise is toprovide a storagearchitecturethat supportsthe storage and retrieval of ...
Existing multimedia document models like HTML, MHEG, SMIL, and HyTime lack appropriate modeling primitives to fit the needs of next generation multimedia applications which bring ...
Near-Video-On-Demand (NVOD) entails the provision of viewing flexibility that approaches that of VOD to an unlimited number of viewers of a "hot" movie at afixed cost to...