Recently, the concept of olfaction-enhanced multimedia applications has gained traction as
a step toward further enhancing user quality of experience. The next generation of rich …

MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation (DIA) has recently been finalized as part of the MPEG-21
Multimedia Framework. DIA specifies metadata for assisting the adaptation of Digital Items …

Video transcoding, due to its high practical values for a wide range of networked video
applications, has become an active research topic. We outline the technical issues and …

Video adaptation is an emerging field that offers a rich body of techniques for answering
challenging questions in pervasive media applications. It transforms the input video (s) to an …

MPEG-21 is an open standards-based framework for multimedia delivery and consumption.
It aims to enable the use of multimedia resources across a wide range of networks and …

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 …

In this paper we present a model for measuring the quality of experience (QoE) of
multimedia services. Our model consists of measurable and non-measurable parameters …

A comprehensive resource on multimedia communications. Covers recent trends and
standardization activities in multimedia communications, such as layered structures …

This paper introduces a prototype test-bed for triggering sensory effects like light, wind, or
vibration when presenting audiovisual resources, eg, a video, to users. The ISO/IEC MPEG …

Most systems that support speculative parallelization, like hardware transactional memory
(HTM), do not support nested parallelism. This sacrifices substantial parallelism and …