background various researchers have shown that the health level, performance status, and quality of life (qol) are often less than expected especially in hemodialysis (hd) patients. objectives this study aimed to determine the effect of the two methods of educational programs on health- related qol (hrqol) in iranian hd patients. patients and methods in this quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest...

In this paper we present an audiovisual (AV) data annotation and exploitation system, which was developed as a feasibility demonstration of several theoretical models and algorithms. These models provide a graph based AV document annotation model, a rapid search method to exploit these annotations and the representation of connected, distributed graphs in XML. First we present the theoretical b...

Micro-blogging services provide platforms for users to share their feelings and ideas on the move. In this paper, we present a search-based demonstration system, called MemeTube, to summarize the sentiments of microblog messages in an audiovisual manner. MemeTube provides three main functions: (1) recognizing the sentiments of messages (2) generating music melody automatically based on detected...

Modern interactive means combined with new digital media processing and representation technologies can provide a robust framework for enhancing user experience in multimedia entertainment systems and audiovisual artistic installations with non-traditional interaction/feedback paths based on user affective state. In this work, the ‘Elevator’ interactive audiovisual platform prototype is present...

The emergence of numerical technologies in the audio-visual sector requires the use of powerful tools for accessing data. In this demonstration paper, we focus on content-based indexing and similarity search in very large audiovisual databases of business movie companies. This paper summarizes our analytical study and experimental results for two new indexing structures we propose. These struct...

In this work we present a flexible and fast, but yet accurate simulation environment for wireless systems, which satisfies real-time constraints imposed by the respective applications and protocols of interest. We take into account system and demonstration aspects and concentrate on real-time video-conferencing services. The presented wireless network simulation and demonstration environment (W...

—The current work presents an experience of educational innovation in teaching the topic of Electronic Circuit Analysis. An audiovisual production with up-to-date material was produced to complete a series of teaching actions in the sphere of European Higher Education. Learning about the topic of Circuit Analysis may be improved if the students can easily download self-explanatory demonstration...

Demonstration of a proposal of correspondence between Light and Sound. This proposal was materially exemplified by means of a new hyperinstrument, which gives its users the control over a multi-sensorial algorithmic composition generated in real-time. In this paper we present the origin and motivation of our correspondence proposal. We describe with some detail, the designed methodology to conv...

The PrestoSpace Integrated Project was launched in 2004 under the Information Society Technologies priority of the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Community (IST FP6 507336). Several European broadcasters and audiovisual archive owners, universities and research centres and industry representatives are part of the PrestoSpace consortium. The project website is www.prestospace.org. The...