This paper sums up relevant topics covered by the special issue titled ‘Real-Time Multimedia Coding and Transmission’, including efficient content representation, multimedia transmission, hardware and software acceleration, and transcoding techniques.

In multimedia and graphics applications, data samples of nonprimitive type require significant amount of buffer memory. This paper addresses the problem of minimizing the buffer memory requirement for such applications in embedded software synthesis from graphical dataflow programs based on the synchronous dataflow (SDF) model with the given execution order of nodes. We propose a memory minimiz...

WinPitch Corpus is an innovative software program for computer-aided alignment of large corpora. It provides a method for easy and precise selection of alignment units, ranging from syllable to whole sentences in a hierarchical storing system of aligned data. The method is based on the ability to link visually and select with a mouse click a text segment with the perception of the corresponding...

J.D. Edwards is a provider of the new generation of ERP and collaborative commerce solutions. This case study describes the challenges faced internally by the company to upgrade to the latest enterprise software it would sell to the world. Dubbed Project PROOF, the project started in June 2001 and was completed in November 2002. The perspectives of the CIO, the program manager, and other key pe...

In this study, we investigated group problem solving behaviour of twelve graduate students using Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL). The problems were ill-structured design problems about the critique on the design of multimedia educational software. The students were asked to participate in an asynchronous online discussion which involved the following tasks: identifying design p...

Digital image compression is a very popular topic in the field of multimedia processing. The major focus of work is to develop different compression schemes/algorithms to provide good visual quality fewer bit to represent an image in digital format. This paper work describes software and hardware implementation of Embedded Zerotree Wavelet (EZW) image Coder-Decoder (CODEC).The EZW image CODEC i...

The research on distributed system’s dim target detection and tracking is very important to improve the performance of infrared guard system. When the image background is very intricate, and there are few pels of targets, it is very hard to check the target. An local texture analysis method which is very fit for dim target detection in low signal to noise rate was adopted to realize the detecti...

Multimedia content today can be considered as the composition of media objects into an interactive multimedia presentation. Typically, multimedia content comprises continuous and discrete media objects such as videos and images which are arranged in space and time with interaction possibilities. Personalization of such multimedia content means that the content reflects a user's personal context...

Multimedia content today can be considered as the composition of media elements in time and space into a coherent, interactive multimedia presentation. Personalization of such multimedia content means that it needs to reflect user’s profile information and context information. To create such personalized multimedia content, a manual authoring of many different documents for all the different us...

Developing a large-scale biomedical multimedia software system is always a challenging task: Satisfaction of sundry and stringent biomedical multimedia related requirements and standards; Heterogeneous software deployment and communication environments; and tangling correlation between data/contents and software functionalities, among others. This paper introduces a novel biomedical multimedia ...