Special Issue. Multimedia. Video and Computer. Multimedia. An Introduction to Essays on Multimedia.

Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Multimedia Data Mining

M ULTIMEDIA data mining refers to the study and research on the knowledge discovery in a multimedia database. Presumably, multimedia and data mining are two very in-terdisciplinary and multidisciplinary areas with independently and simultaneously rapid developments in recent years. This special issue focuses on the theme of merging multimedia and data mining research together to exploit the syn...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Integrated Multimedia Platforms

Special Issue on Multimedia Streaming

The penetration of broadband residential access and high-speed wireless access has dramatically increased the demand for multimedia content. As the broadband access rate increases, multimedia streaming applications are embedded in more and more hardware devices, e.g., TVs, cars, and cell phones. In the past decade, multimedia streaming has evolved from simple client-server applications to large...

Special iSSue: MultiMedia SeManticS

and MeSH terms (MeSH Headings). These descriptions are syntactically analyzed and reduced into separate vectors of MeSH terms which are matched against the queries according to Equation 3 (as similarity between expanded and re-weighted vectors). The weights of all MeSH terms are initialized to one while the weights of titles and abstracts are initialized by tf.idf. The similarity between a quer...

Editorial - Special issue on multimedia in ecology

The recent advances in digital cameras and sensors, as well as in network bandwidth and information storage capacities, have revolutionized our ability to capture multimedia data (sounds, images, videos, etc.) for environmental monitoring and are also greatly improving our ability to effectively manage natural resources. Sensors are used increasingly in a range of monitoring or exploratory appl...