Vanishing Point is a presentation of the world as it responds to international newspaper coverage - not a measure of what the world is, but of what is most newsworthy. Consequently, countries that receive less media coverage gradually disappear from ...

This work achieves full registration of scenes in a large area and creates visual indexes for visualization in a digital city. We explore effective mapping, indexing, and display of scenes so that an area becomes "visible". Users can virtual navigate ...

Mobile TV services are now being offered in several countries, but for cost reasons, most of these services offer material directly recoded for mobile consumption (i.e. without additional editing). The experiment reported in this paper, aims to assess ...

Human eyes have limited perception capabilities; for example, only 2 degrees of our 140 degree vision field provide the highest quality of perception. Due to this fact the idea of perceptual focus emerged to allow a visual content to be changed in a way ...

Though cameraphones are rapidly becoming the dominant platform for consumer digital photography, users still face difficulties in transferring, managing, and sharing photos captured with cameraphones. The Mobile Media Metadata 2 (MMM2) system removes ...

This paper presents a novel object-based video coding framework for videos obtained from a static camera. As opposed to most existing methods, the proposed method does not require explicit 2D or 3D models of objects and hence is general enough to cater ...

Detail-on-demand hypervideo will provide a powerful mechanism to allow viewers to see additional information of video segments through hyperlinks. A large number of tools are devoted to the identification of selectable video objects and the ...

Since entities participating in P2P networks are usually autonomous and therefore free to decide on their level of participation, mechanisms to resolve conflicts between individual and collective rationality are needed. How can implementations of such ...

The inherent instability and unreliability of peer-to-peer networks introduce several fundamental engineering challenges to multimedia streaming over peer-to-peer networks. First, multimedia streaming sessions need to be resilient to the volatile ...

In this paper, we present an unstructured peer-to-peer network called GridMedia for live media streaming employing a push-pull approach. Each node in GridMedia randomly selects its neighbors in the overlay and uses push-pull method to fetch data from ...

In this paper, we introduce a new selection method for H.264 based Fine Granular Scalable video coding. It selectively uses the temporal-prediction data inside the enhancement-layer only when those data can significantly reduce the temporal-redundancies, ...

This paper presents a content-adaptive system for streaming reconstructed soccer goal events over networks with bandwidth limited to 1.5Mbps or below. The reconstruction module analyzes a soccer video to produce corresponding panoramic field model with ...

The number of people using cameraphones is growing by tens of millions every month. Yet the majority of cameraphone users have difficulty transferring photos off their phone and sharing them with others. PhotoRouter is a software application for ...

Studies of video conferencing systems generally focus on scenarios where users communicate using an audio channel. However, text chat serves users in a wide variety of contexts, and is commonly included in multimedia conferencing systems as a complement ...