In recent years, blogging has become an exploding passion among Internet communities.
By combining the grassroots blogging with the richness of expression available in video …

An in-depth treatment of algorithms and standards for perceptual coding of high-fidelity
audio, this self-contained reference surveys and addresses all aspects of the field. Coverage …

Concerns related to the environment are evident in the rapid growth of the environmentally
conscious marketplace and its increasing impact on corporate strategists. Drawing from the …

The advancement in mobile technology and the introduction of cloud computing systems
enable the use of educational materials on mobile devices for a location-and time-agnostic …

The access devices of today are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Thanks to multimedia,
communication is much widespread and therefore more powerful. However, we face a …

The browsing of quality videos on small hand-held devices is a common scenario in
pervasive media environments. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for video …

The MPEG-21 Rights Expression Language (REL) is an XML-based language for digital
rights management (DRM), providing a universal method for specifying rights and conditions …

Adapting multimedia content to users' preferences and perceptual characteristics is a key
direction for enabling personalized multimedia services. In this paper, we address the …

Various XML-based approaches aimed at representing complex digital objects have
emerged over the last several years. Approaches that are of specific relevance to the Digital …

Personalized delivery of multimedia content over the Internet opens new business
perspectives for future multimedia applications and thus plays an important role in the …