Replicating Web documents at a worldwide scale can help reduce user-perceived latency and wide-area network traffic. This paper presents the design of Globule, a platform that aut...
A true video-on-demand(TVOD) system lets users view any video program, at any time, and perform any VCR functions, but its peruser video delivery cost is too expensive. A near vide...
Despite its obvious suitability for distributed multimedia applications, multicasting has not yet found widespread application. Having analyzed shortcomings of today's approac...
Michel Diaz, Roberto Canonico, Luis Costa, Serge F...
In this paper, we describe a mechanism for adaptive transmission of multimedia data, which is based on real time protocols. The proposed mechanism can be used for multicast multime...
Developing effective and efficient retrieval techniques for multimedia data is a challenging issue in building a digital library. Unlike most previously proposed retrieval approac...
An E-Partner is a photo-realistic conversation agent, which has a talking head that not only look photo-realistic but also can have a conversation with the user about a given topic...
Bo Zhang, Changbo Hu, Qingsheng Cai, Baining Guo, ...
The paper describes an experimental study on the detection of emotion from speech. As computer based characters such as avatars and virtual chat faces become more common, the use ...
Feng Yu, Eric Chang, Ying-Qing Xu, Heung-Yeung Shu...
A practical method for creating a high dimensional index structure that adapts to the data distribution and scales well with the database size, is presented. Typical media descrip...
Peng Wu, B. S. Manjunath, Shivkumar Chandrasekaran