INTELLIGENCE AGENTS MULTIMEDIA GROUP SCHOOL OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE Doctor of Philosophy

Computer Science) QUALITY AWARE TRANSCODING: AN APPLICATION LEVEL TECHNIQUE TO DYNAMICALLY ADAPT MULTIMEDIA CONTENT by

The swift development of multimedia technology is further promoting the College English Teaching reform. College English autonomous learning model, based on a combination of student-centered teaching concept with multimedia technology, is one of the most important developing trends in the process of the reform. This paper discusses the difference of student’s autonomous learning ability between...

With the rapid development of computer network, there appear so many new applications and multimedia data that the chasm, which between the singularity of data sources and the variation of network, terminal devices and users, grows wider and wider. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm, known as Adaptive Multimedia Transport Model (AMTM), and implement an adaptive supporting platform for ...

Applications and user interfaces contain more and more multimedia parts what leads to a disappearance of the separation between multimedia documents and multimedia applications. The expansion of the notion multimedia document to comprise application specific functionality leads to the requirement for an adequate model and specification language for multimedia presentations. An adequate model al...

The combination of Multimedia and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) poses a significant challenge to the computing and communication infrastructure. Although local multimedia applications offer sophisticated capabilities, multimedia in communications is usually limited to more or less trivial picturephone functionality. Based on the idea of window sharing, our Joint Viewing and Teleope...

Taekyong Lee and G ultekin  Ozsoyo glu Department of Computer Engineering and Science Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH 44106 ftlee, [email protected] Abstract: Multimedia presentations are stored into and queried from multimedia databases. In an earlier work, we have designed a graphical query language, called GVISUAL, that allows users to query multimedia presentations based o...

Computer and multimedia technology play an increasingly important role in education. However, current educational multimedia systems suffer from a major drawback that they don’t support active engagement from users. In this paper we present a system that overcomes the hurdle. Our system offers rich user interactivity; it naturally supports and invites user involvement in a multimedia presentati...