Multimedia services in intelligent environments: advanced tools and methodologies

This book presents a sample of recent research results in multimedia services. Besides the introductory chapter, this book includes fourteen additional chapters. Nine of these chapters cover various aspects of data processing in multimedia services in intelligent environments, such as storage, recognition and classification, transmission, information retrieval, and information securing.Four additional chapters present multimedia services in noise and hearing monitoring and measuring, augmented reality, automated lecture rooms and rights management and licensing. Finally, the last chapter is devoted to an intelligent recommender service in scientific digital libraries. Contains the latest research in the area of ‘Multimedia Interactive Services in Intelligent Environment’ INDICE: Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments: An Introduction.-Audio-Visual Compression for Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments.- Generalized Recognition of Sound Events: Approaches and Applications.- An Overview of Speech/Music Discrimination Techniques in the Context of Audio Recordings.- Multichannel Audio Coding for Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments.- Temporal Video transcoding for Multimedia Services.- Individualization of Content-based Image Retrieval Systems via Objective Feature Subset Selection.- Audio-Visual Multimedia Retrieval on Mobile Devices.- Cryptography and Data Hiding for Media Security.- Multimedia Information Security.- Multimedia Services Applied to Noise and Hearing Monitoring and Measuring.- Vision-Based Tracking for Mobile Augmented Reality.- Rights Management and Licensing Multimedia Services.- Automated Lecture Services.- Recommender Services in Scientific Digital Libraries.

• ISBN: 978-3-540-78491-3
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 300
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés