Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments: Advanced Tools and Methodologies Book

1 Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments: An Introduction George A. Tsihrintzis Tsihrintzis, George A. Lakhmi C. Jain Jain, Lakhmi C. 1

2 Audiovisual Compression for Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments Christos Grecos Grecos, Christos Ming Yuan Yang Ming, Yuan Yang 9

3 Generalized Recognition of Sound Events: Approaches and Applications Ilyas Potamitis Potamitis, Ilyas Todor Ganchev Ganchev, Todor 41

4 An Overview of Speech/Music Discrimination Techniques in the Context of Audio Recordings Aggelos Pikrakis Pikrakis, Aggelos Theodoros Giannakopoulos Giannakopoulos, Theodoros Sergios Theodoridis Theodoridis, Sergios 81

5 Multichannel Audio Coding for Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments Athanasios Mouchtaris Mouchtaris, Athanasios Panagiotis Tsakalides Tsakalides, Panagiotis 103

6 Temporal Video Transcoding for Multimedia Services Francesco Lonetti Francesco Martelli 149

7 Individualization of Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems via Objective Feature Subset Selection D. N. Sotiropoulos Sotiropoulos, D. N. A. S. Lampropoulos Lampropoulos, A. S. G. A. Tsihrintzis Tsihrintzis, G. A. 181

8 Audio-Visual Multimedia Retrieval on Mobile Devices Iftikhar Ahmad Ahmad, Iftikhar Moncef Gabbouj Gabbouj, Moncef 203

9 Cryptography and Data Hiding for Media Security Alessandro Piva Piva, Alessandro 227

10 Multimedia Information Security Constantinos Patsakis Patsakis, Constantinos Nikolaos Alexandris Alexandris, Nikolaos 257

11 Multimedia Services Applied to Noise and Hearing Monitoring and Measuring Andrzej Czyzewski Czyzewski, Andrzej Bozena Kostek Kostek, Bozena Jozef Kotus Kotus, Jozef 275

12 Vision-Based Tracking for Mobile AugmentedReality Fakhreddine Ababsa Ababsa, Fakhreddine Madjid Maidi Maidi, Madjid Jean-Yves Didier Didier, Jean-Yves Malik Mallem Mallem, Malik 297

13 Rights Management and Licensing Multimedia Services Renato Iannella Iannella, Renato 327

14 Automated Lecture Services Cha Zhang Cha, Zhang Yong Rui Yong, Rui 351

15 Recommender Services in Scientific Digital Libraries Markus Franke Franke, Markus Andreas Geyer-Schulz Geyer-Schulz, Andreas Andreas W. Neumann Neumann, Andreas W. 377