基于COM的医学形态学投影考试系统设计与实现

高等医学院校的形态学实验考试是对学生的实践能力的检测,以往传统的形态考试效率低下,浪费人力、物力和时间资源.针对这些现状及需求设计了医学形态学多媒体投影考试系统,本系统研究过程主要采用了COM(组件对象模型)软件技术,通过COM定义了文件数据组件、数据库组件的对象模型及通信接口,完成了数据的传输及安全控制;主要给出了考试系统的总体设计与功能,系统在实际应用中取得了一定的经济效益和社会效益并深化了教育改革.     

WMSNs的安全合作处理密钥管理协议

提出一种基于两跳分簇网络结构的安全合作处理密钥管理协议,能支持无线多媒体传感器网络的合作处理.通过建立簇内和邻簇的密钥对,明显降低了存储开销,解决了密钥对建立和更新过程中通信开销大的问题.性能分析和仿真结果显示,密钥对建立和簇密钥更新通信开销分别减少300%和50%,并有抵制俘获攻击的能力.与不加密直接传输进行比较,加密合作传输的网络性能更优,特别是网络生存周期提高了153%.     

多媒体查询语言及其评价准则

随着多媒体技术和多媒体相关应用的发展,对有效检索多媒体信息的要求越来越迫切.查询语言作为信息检索的有效工具,其研究也越来越受到关注.对现有的多媒体查询语言进行了全面的综述,将它们分为两类:专用语言和通用语言.尽管查询语言对多媒体信息系统提供有效的查询服务至关重要,但目前仍没有较好的多媒体查询语言评价准则.因此,针对多媒体查询语言的查询表达能力设计准则共16条,并根据这些准则对多媒体查询语言进行了评价.评价结果表明,这些语言能满足用户的基本查询要求,但在高级语义查询和不确定查询等方面还有欠缺.最后展望了多媒体查询语言的未来研究方向.     

C程序设计多媒体教学探讨

针对目前C语言教学中广泛存在的学时少与信息量大的矛盾。分析了传统教学手段与多媒体教学手段的利与弊,提出了以传统教学手段为主。多媒体教学手段为辅的授课方法,以提高教学质量。     

Pattern discovery and change detection of online music query streams

Mining of music data is one of the most important problems in multimedia data mining. In this paper, two research issues of mining music data, i.e., online mining of music query streams and change detection of music query streams, are discussed. First, we proposed an efficient online algorithm, FTP-stream (Frequent Temporal Pattern mining of streams), to mine all frequent melody structures over sliding windows of music melody sequence streams. An effective bit-sequence representation is used in the proposed algorithm to reduce the time and memory needed to slide the windows. An effective list structure is developed in the FTP-stream algorithm to overcome the performance bottleneck of 2-candidate generation. Experiments show that the proposed algorithm FTP-stream only needs a half of memory requirement of original melody sequence data, and just scans the music query stream once. After mining frequent melody structures, we developed a simple online algorithm, MQS-change (changes of Music Query Streams), to detect the changes of frequent melody structures in current user-centered music query streams. Two music melody structures (set of chord-sets and string of chord-sets) are maintained and four melody structure changes (positive burst, negative burst, increasing change and decreasing change) are monitored in a new summary data structure, MSC-list (a list of Music Structure Changes). Experiments show that the MQS-change algorithm is an effective online method to detect the changes of music melody structures over continuous music query streams.

From MPEG-7 user interaction tools to hanging basket models: bridging the gap

The content–user gap is the difference between the limited range of content-relevant preferences that may be expressed using the MPEG-7 user interaction tools and the much wider range of metadata that may be represented using the MPEG-7 content tools. One approach for closing this gap is to make the user and content metadata isomorphic by using the existing MPEG-7 content tools to represent user (as well as content) metadata (Agius and Angelides 2006, 2007). Subsequently, user preferences may be specified for all content, without omission. Since there is a wealth of user preference and history metadata within the MPEG-7 user interaction tools that can usefully complement these specific content preferences, in this paper we develop a method by which all user and content metadata may be bridged.

Crossing textual and visual content in different application scenarios

This paper deals with multimedia information access. We propose two new approaches for hybrid text-image information processing that can be straightforwardly generalized to the more general multimodal scenario. Both approaches fall in the trans-media pseudo-relevance feedback category. Our first method proposes using a mixture model of the aggregate components, considering them as a single relevance concept. In our second approach, we define trans-media similarities as an aggregation of monomodal similarities between the elements of the aggregate and the new multimodal object. We also introduce the monomodal similarity measures for text and images that serve as basic components for both proposed trans-media similarities. We show how one can frame a large variety of problem in order to address them with the proposed techniques: image annotation or captioning, text illustration and multimedia retrieval and clustering. Finally, we present how these methods can be integrated in two applications: a travel blog assistant system and a tool for browsing the Wikipedia taking into account the multimedia nature of its content.

Using visual and text features for direct marketing on multimedia messaging services domain

Traditionally, direct marketing companies have relied on pre-testing to select the best offers to send to their audience. Companies systematically dispatch the offers under consideration to a limited sample of potential buyers, rank them with respect to their performance and, based on this ranking, decide which offers to send to the wider population. Though this pre-testing process is simple and widely used, recently the industry has been under increased pressure to further optimize learning, in particular when facing severe time and learning space constraints. The main contribution of the present work is to demonstrate that direct marketing firms can exploit the information on visual content to optimize the learning phase. This paper proposes a two-phase learning strategy based on a cascade of regression methods that takes advantage of the visual and text features to improve and accelerate the learning process. Experiments in the domain of a commercial Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) show the effectiveness of the proposed methods and a significant improvement over traditional learning techniques. The proposed approach can be used in any multimedia direct marketing domain in which offers comprise both a visual and text component.

一种基于对象的多媒体存储系统优化策略

设计一个实用的分布式多媒体服务系统,存储子系统是其中的一个研究重点.根据多媒体系统的存储特点,从全新的视角提出一种存储子系统设计方案--基于对象的多媒体存储系统(Multimedia Object-based Storage System,MOSS),并分析了MOSS的系统架构和工作流程.与传统的多媒体存储技术相比,对象存储不仅能有效地改善系统I/O性能,还具有较好的安全性.以对象存储原型系统为基础,讨论了热点对象文件的分布和均匀分块优化策略.通过建立与系统相对应的数学模型,对数传率、I/O请求丢失率等性能指标作了定性分析.该研究工作对消除多媒体服务系统I/O瓶颈、进行存储子系统设计具有实际的指导意义.     

基于UPnP和UPnP AV的多媒体内容同步和回放

简要描述了基于UPnP技术架构和UPnP AV规范的家庭娱乐系统(HES)的实现方案,在HES中提出了设备选择算法、轻量级可切换播放服务和快速同步算法.设备选择算法实现了用户零干预条件下的自动切换,轻量级可切换播放服务提供了一个简单高效的服务实现,而快速同步算法将媒体播放切换动作前的同步时间降低到秒数量级,与传统内容同步方法分钟级的延时相比具有重要的使用价值.