New energy landscape architecture is a new building integrated with aesthetics and art design, which can meet people's dual needs of low consumption architectural aesthetics. In recent years, the development speed increasing, design research has become hot spot. The values, aesthetics, technology concepts will always stimulate promote urban to constantly enrich itself. Therefore, it exploration...

background: considering the assumptions of cognitive load theory and using its reduction and optimization strategies in the design and development of instructional content is one of the main requirements for achieving effective learning. this study examined the effectiveness of instructional multimedia based on reducing the extraneous cognitive load in english language learning among nursing st...

Multimedia authoring process is inherently a complex and tedious task, users have to specify all the details of a multimedia presentation (temporal coordination, user interaction and spatial placement of data on the user display). In the same time they have to keep in mind a global overview of the entire document. Current document systems uses scripting languages or timelines to specify multime...

Among multimedia content specially, a digital image has been widely used in a variety of applications, from web, digital camera photography, military information and digital art to medical diagnosis and personal blog. As like this, digital image is more and more important media in an information society. Therefore, a necessity for a reliable multimedia content has been rising rapidly in recent ...

The MPEG-4 standard defines numerous tools that represent the state-of-the-art in representation, transmission, and decoding of multimedia data. Among these is a new type of audio standard, termed “Structured Audio”. The MPEG-4 standard for structured audio allows for the efficient, flexible description of synthetic music and sound effects, and the use of synthetic sound in synchronization with...

Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) is a research area dedicated to address the retrieve and search multimedia documents for digital libraries. Relevance feedback is a powerful technique in CBIR and has been an active research topic for the past few years. In this paper, we review the current state-of-the-art of research on relevance feedbacks for CBIR and present the iFind system developed at...

Rahul Sukthankar Intel Labs and Carnegie Mellon University R ecent years have witnessed an explosive growth of multimedia data due to higher processor speeds, faster networks, wider availability of high-capacity mass-storage devices, and the advent of cloud computing. Stimulated by current work in scalable machine learning, feature indexing and multimodal analysis techniques, researchers are in...

We here describe the experience of researchers and artists involved in the activities of the “computer ART lab” (cART lab) of the Italian National Council of Research (C.N.R.) in Pisa, regarding the “wireless technology” developed for controlling in real-time interactive multimedia performances. The most relevant devices and systems developed at cART lab for gesture recognition to be used for g...

The book is a collection of 14 excellent articles on techniques of multimedia watermarking and their applications. It includes survey articles that describe the state-of-the art in multimedia watermarking techniques as well as articles that introduce new techniques that improve over the weaknesses of the existing ones and new applications of various watermarking techniques. Even though the book...