Multimedia - A Multidisciplinary Appr. to Complex Issues

288 Pages·2012·11.12 MB·English

by  I. Karydis

MULTIMEDIA –
A MULTIDISCIPLINARY
APPROACH TO
COMPLEX ISSUES

Edited by Ioannis Karydis
Multimedia – A Multidisciplinary Approach to Complex Issues
Edited by Ioannis Karydis

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Multimedia – A Multidisciplinary Approach to Complex Issues, Edited by Ioannis Karydis
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Contents

Preface IX
Part 1 Multimedia and Peer-to-Peer Networks 1
Chapter 1 Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Distribution
on Radio Channel and Asymmetric Channel 3
Danilo Merlanti and Gianluca Mazzini
Part 2 Multimedia and Wireless Networks 27
Chapter 2 A Dynamic Link Adaptation for
Multimedia Quality-Based
Communications in IEEE_802.11 Wireless Networks 29
Ahmed Riadh Rebai and Mariam Fliss
Chapter 3 A Multimedia and VoIP-Oriented Cell
Search Technique for the IEEE 802.11 WLANS 55
Ahmed Riadh Rebai, Mariam Fliss and Saïd Hanafi
Part 3 Security Issues in Multimedia 83
Chapter 4 A Novel Access Control Scheme for
Multimedia Content with Modified Hash Chain 85
Shoko Imaizumi, Masaaki Fujiyoshi and Hitoshi Kiya
Chapter 5 Multimedia Security: A Survey of
Chaos-Based Encryption Technology 99
Zhaopin Su, Guofu Zhang and Jianguo Jiang
Chapter 6 Polynomial-Time Codes Against
Averaging Attack for Multimedia Fingerprinting 125
Hideki Yagi and Tsutomu Kawabata
Chapter 7 Evaluation of Multimedia Fingerprinting Image 141
Kang Hyeon RHEE
VI Contents

Part 4 Bridging the Semantic Gap in Multimedia 159
Chapter 8 Enhancing Multimedia Search Using Human Motion 161
Kevin Adistambha, Stephen Davis, Christian Ritz,
Ian S. Burnett and David Stirling
Chapter 9 Ensemble Learning with LDA
Topic Models for Visual Concept Detection 175
Sheng Tang, Yan-Tao Zheng,
Gang Cao, Yong-Dong Zhang and Jin-Tao Li
Part 5 Managing Multimedia Content and Metadata 201
Chapter 10 Mconf: An Open Source
Multiconference System for Web and Mobile Devices 203
Valter Roesler, Felipe Cecagno,
Leonardo Crauss Daronco and Fred Dixon
Chapter 11 High-Dimensional Indexing for Video Retrieval 229
Catalin Calistru, Cristina Ribeiro and Gabriel David
Chapter 12 Challenges and the Solutions
for Multimedia Metadata Sharing in Networks 263
Hochul Shin

Preface

Multimedia is interdisciplinary a field by nature. One can identify principles, concepts
and theories from communication and computer science, physics, psychology, music,
graphic arts and many other disciplines in such data [Tannenbaum, 1999]. In addition,
multimedia are renowned for their rich character, stemming from their formation
based on combination of different content forms.
The widespread penetration of digital capturing and processing devices and the high
bandwidth interconnections between web-users, coupled with the aforementioned
multidisciplinary and rich character of multimedia, led their use to be a sine qua non in
many forms of digitised expression.
Setting aside the enormous expansion of use of multimedia content in web pages under
the auspices of Web 2.0, the most prominent example of the ever-increasing use of
multimedia comes from socially aware and contextually rich video streaming services. In
both terms of creating and consuming such content, YouTube service [YouTube, 2012]
states that "48 hours of video are uploaded every minute, resulting in nearly 8 years of
content uploaded every day, while over 3 billion videos are viewed a day".
Although research in the discipline of multimedia is far from young, such growth of
multimedia content creation and consumption is unprecedented and calls for new
methods in order to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of the methods utilised. In
addition, latest developments in terms of hardware, networking issues, security and
semantic information extraction require re-evaluation of the currently used techniques
to suit new requirements.
This book is organised into 5 major sections addressing multimedia topics in peer-to-
peer & wireless networks, security characteristics in multimedia, semantic gap
bridging for multimedia content and novel applications for managing multimedia
content & metadata.

Ioannis Karydis
Dept. of Informatics, Ionian University
Greece
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References
Tannenbaum, R. S. (1999). Theoretical Foundations of Multimedia. W. H. Freeman.
YouTube. (2012). YouTube Statistics. Available:
http://www.youtube.com/t/press_statistics. Last accessed 19th Jan 2012.