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MMSP
2008
IEEE
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Camera motion-constraint video codec selection
—In recent years advanced video codecs have been developed, such as standardized in MPEG-4. The latest video codec H.264/AVC provides compression performance superior to previous...
Andreas Krutz, Sebastian Knorr, Matthias Kunter, T...
MMSP
2008
IEEE
155views Multimedia» more  MMSP 2008»
14 years 6 months ago
Structured network coding and cooperative local peer-to-peer repair for MBMS video streaming
—By providing coding ability at intermediate nodes, network coding has been shown to improve throughput in wireless broadcast/multicast networks. Considering a scenario where wir...
Xin Liu, Gene Cheung, Chen-Nee Chuah
MMSP
2008
IEEE
204views Multimedia» more  MMSP 2008»
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Color restoration for objects of interest using robust image features
—Illumination distortion due to uncontrolled lighting can severely degrade the color appearance of a photo. Frequently, the desired colors for objects in a newly taken query imag...
David M. Chen, Vijay Chandrasekhar, Gabriel Takacs...
MMSP
2008
IEEE
149views Multimedia» more  MMSP 2008»
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Hybrid low bitrate audio coding using adaptive gain shape vector quantization
—Audio coding at low bitrates typically suffers from artifacts caused by bandwidth truncation. In this paper we present a novel scheme to code audio signals at low bitrates which...
Sanjeev Mehrotra, Wei-Ge Chen, Kazuhito Koishida, ...
MMSP
2008
IEEE
133views Multimedia» more  MMSP 2008»
14 years 6 months ago
Recent developments in panoramic image generation and sprite coding
—1 The composition of panoramic images has recently received considerable attention. While panoramic images were first used mainly as a flexible visualization technique, they a...
Dirk Farin, Martin Haller, Andreas Krutz, Thomas S...
MMSP
2008
IEEE
178views Multimedia» more  MMSP 2008»
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Semantic saliency driven camera control for personal remote collaboration
—This paper presents a camera combo system for personal remote collaboration applications. The system consists of two different cameras. One camera has a wide field of view, and...
Cha Zhang, Zicheng Liu, Zhengyou Zhang, Qi Zhao
MMSP
2008
IEEE
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Distortion evaluation in transform domain for adaptive lifting schemes
Abstract—In this paper we study the problem of evaluating the reconstruction distortion in the wavelet domain when adaptive lifting schemes (ALS) are used for the direct and inve...
Sara Parrilli, Marco Cagnazzo, Béatrice Pes...
MMSP
2008
IEEE
126views Multimedia» more  MMSP 2008»
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Short utterance-based video aided speaker recognition
—Embedded speaker recognition in mobile devices could involve several ergonomic constraints and a limited amount of computing resources. Even if they have proved their efficienc...
Anthony Larcher, Jean-François Bonastre, Jo...
MMSP
2008
IEEE
216views Multimedia» more  MMSP 2008»
14 years 6 months ago
Using stochastic gradient-descent scheme in appearance model based face tracking
— Active appearance model (AAM) has been widely used in face tracking and recognition. However, accuracy and efficiency are always two main challenges with the AAM search. The pa...
Zhidong Li, Jing Chen, Adrian Chong, Zhenghua Yu, ...
MMSP
2008
IEEE
268views Multimedia» more  MMSP 2008»
14 years 6 months ago
Biosignal and context monitoring: Distributed multimedia applications of Body Area Networks in healthcare
— We are investigating the use of Body Area Networks (BANs), wearable sensors and wireless communications for measuring, processing, transmission, interpretation and display of b...
V. M. Jones, Robert J. Huis in't Veld, T. Tonis, R...