Advances in networking and content delivery systems are enabling new challenging provisioning scenarios where a growing number of users access Video on Demand (VoD), possibly whil...
Determining similarities among multimedia objects is a fundamental task in many content-based retrieval, analysis, mining, and exploration applications. Among state-of-the-art sim...
This paper presents the results of an empirical study suggesting that, while laughter is a very good indicator of amusement, the kind of laughter (unvoiced laughter vs.voiced laug...
There exists a huge demand for multimedia goods and services in the Internet. Currently available bandwidth speeds can support sale of downloadable content like CDs, e-books, etc....
Srinivasan Jagannathan, Jayanth Nayak, Kevin C. Al...
This paper aims at improving perceptual quality of encoded video sequences, and proposes a new perceptual bit allocation scheme for H.264. Firstly, a new motion complexity measure...