Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments: An Introduction

   • George A. Tsihrintzis, Lakhmi C. Jain

   Pages 1-8

3. Audiovisual Compression for Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments

   • Christos Grecos, Ming Yuan Yang

   Pages 9-40

4. Generalized Recognition of Sound Events: Approaches and Applications

   • Ilyas Potamitis, Todor Ganchev

   Pages 41-79

5. An Overview of Speech/Music Discrimination Techniques in the Context of Audio Recordings

   • Aggelos Pikrakis, Theodoros Giannakopoulos, Sergios Theodoridis

   Pages 81-102

6. Multichannel Audio Coding for Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments

   • Athanasios Mouchtaris, Panagiotis Tsakalides

   Pages 103-148

7. Temporal Video Transcoding for Multimedia Services

   • Francesca Lonetti, Francesca Martelli

   Pages 149-179

8. Individualization of Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems via Objective Feature Subset Selection

   • D. N. Sotiropoulos, A. S. Lampropoulos, G. A. Tsihrintzis

   Pages 181-201

9. Audio-Visual Multimedia Retrieval on Mobile Devices

   • Iftikhar Ahmad, Moncef Gabbouj

   Pages 203-225

10. Cryptography and Data Hiding for Media Security

    • Alessandro Piva

    Pages 227-255

11. Multimedia Information Security

    • Constantinos Patsakis, Nikolaos Alexandris

    Pages 257-273

12. Multimedia Services Applied to Noise and Hearing Monitoring and Measuring

    • Andrzej Czyzewski, Bozena Kostek, Jozef Kotus

    Pages 275-295

13. Vision-Based Tracking for Mobile Augmented Reality

    • Fakhreddine Ababsa, Madjid Maidi, Jean-Yves Didier, Malik Mallem

    Pages 297-326

14. Rights Management and Licensing Multimedia Services

    • Renato Iannella

    Pages 327-349

15. Automated Lecture Services

    • Cha Zhang, Yong Rui

    Pages 351-375

16. Recommender Services in Scientific Digital Libraries

    • Markus Franke, Andreas Geyer-Schulz, Andreas W. Neumann

    Pages 377-417

17. Back Matter

    Pages 419-420

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Multimedia services involve processing, transmission and retrieval of multiple forms of information. Multimedia services have gained momentum in the past few years due to the easy availability of computing power and storage media. Societyisdemandinghuman-likeintelligentbehaviour,suchasadaptationand generalization, from machines every day. With this view in mind, researchers are working on fusing intelligent paradigms such as arti?cial neural networks, swarm intelligence, arti?cial immune systems, evolutionary computing and multiagents with multimedia services. Arti?cial neural networks use neurons, interconnected using various schemes, for fusing learning in multimedia-based systems. Evolutionary c- puting techniques are used in tasks such as optimization. Typical multiagent systems are based on Belief-Desire-Intention model and act on behalf of the users. Typical examples of intelligent multimedia services include digital - braries, e-learning and teaching, e-government, e-commerce, e-entertainment, e-health and e-legal services. This book includes 15 chapters on advanced tools and methodologies pertaining to the multimedia services. The authors and reviewers have c- tributed immensely to this research-oriented book. We believe that this - search volume will be valuable to professors, researchers and students of all disciplines, such as computer science, engineering and management. We express our sincere thanks to Springer-Verlag for their wonderful e- torial support.

• Feature Subset Selection
• artificial neural network
• augmented reality
• behavior
• cognition
• computational intelligence
• data hiding
• evolution
• intelligence
• learning
• model
• multimedia
• neural networks
• optimization
• swarm intelligence

• Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

  George A. Tsihrintzis

• School of Electrical & Information Engineering, University of South Australia KES Centre, Adelaide, Australia

  Lakhmi C. Jain

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