IEEE MultiMedia

Evaluations, benchmarks, and challenges are essential for scientific advancement of multimedia. A great challenge is still needed to capture imagination of the broader community and mark our progress in the multimedia field.

Editor's NoteMobile and cloud computing have emerged as the new computing platforms and are converging into a powerful cloud–mobile computing platform. This article envisions a virtualized screen as a new dimension in such a platform to further optimize ...

Editor's NoteThis is my first column as editor of the Visions and Views column. I hope that with this column I can bring you ideas that are new and interesting. I want to open a dialog about issues that are important to our field, and could change the ...

A platform enables the semantic annotation of multimedia content when the subtitling and audio description tasks are being carried out.

Using sign language, speech, and haptics as communication modalities, a virtual treasure-hunting game serves as an entertainment and educational tool for visually- and hearing-impaired users.

This article outlines issues related to automated film analysis for archived documentaries and explores examples of the applicability of existing content-based retrieval methods.

A data-hiding approach embeds a secret pattern into two or more halftone images using adaptive noise-balanced error diffusion.

A scalable video-on-demand architecture based on peer-to-peer distribution offers high reliability for a fraction of the cost of current systems.

Transmitting camera parameters and additional information enables the generation of a mixed-reality presentation of sports on mobile devices.

Editor's NoteThis column highlights the most interesting topics at this year's World Mobile Congress in Barcelona (see http://www.mobileworldcongress.com).—Frank Nack

This article features some of the latest advances in multimedia technology.

This department presents publishing opportunities to multimedia researchers and announces pertinent upcoming conferences.