Most multimedia documents available today are agnostic to data semantics. Moreover, their
specification language offers little to ease authoring of meaningful content. In this paper, we …

HTML5 is driving a strong trend towards interoperable Web-based applications, enabling a
wider range of devices to run this kind of applications. The key challenge of next-generation …

Broadcast environments are currently undergoing a worldwide revolution driven by the
integration of broadband services. Such a convergence, named Integrated Broadcast …

Digital TV (DTV) receivers are usually submitted to testing systems for conformity and
robustness assessment, and their approval implies correct operation under a given DTV …

Historically, the Multimedia community research has focused on output modalities, through
studies on timing and multimedia processing. The Multimodal Interaction community, on the …

The Internet of Multisensory, Multimedia and Musical Things (Io3MT) is a new concept that
arises from the confluence of several areas of computer science, arts, and humanities, with …

Presentation machines for multimedia declarative languages especially the ones related
with Interactive Digital TV (iDTV) and Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) are usually embedded in …

Unsolicited interleaved media content is common in digital TV systems, particularly in
broadcast TV, in which advertisements are inserted into programs transmitted sequentially …

Most of multimedia documents available today are agnostic to data semantics and their
specification language offer little to ease authoring and mechanisms to their players so they …

Creating compelling multimedia productions is a nontrivial task. This is as true for creating
professional content as it is for nonprofessional editors. During the past 20 years, authoring …