Students’ perceptions of teaching technologies, application of technologies, and academic performance

This study examined business students’ perceptions of four objectives (i.e., Enjoyment, Learning, Motivation, and Career Application) across five teaching technologies (i.e., Projector, PowerPoint, Video, the Internet, and Lecture), business professors’ effective application of technologies, and students’ academic performance. We collected data from 215 students at a regional state university in the USA. We developed Students’ Perceptions of Technology Scale, SPOTS, specifically for the present study, used the most rigorous criteria, and investigated reliability, convergent and discriminant validity, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, and measurement invariance of this scale. Mean scores revealed that Video conveyed the highest amount of Enjoyment. PowerPoint provided the highest amount of Learning and Motivation. The Internet provided the highest Career Application for future jobs. Younger students preferred Video, whereas older students favored Lecture. Regression results showed that the use of Video for Learning, Projector and Lecture for Enjoyment, PowerPoint for career and Motivation, and the Internet for Learning contributed to professors’ teaching effectiveness. Students’ high ratings for professors’ effective use of the Lecture method and low expectation for the use of a Projector predicted their self-reported GPA (academic performance). Professors may use a different mix of technologies in the classroom and use them creatively in order to promote the most Learning for students and satisfy students’ Learning needs and objectives.     

Scalable multi-feature index structure for music databases

The management of large collections of music data in a multimedia database has received much attention in the past few years. In the majority of current work, researchers extract the features, such as melodies, rhythms, and chords, from the music data and develop indices that will help to retrieve the relevant music quickly. Several reports have pointed out that these music features can be transformed and represented in forms of music feature strings or numeric values so that indices can be created for music retrieval. However, there are only a small number of existing approaches which introduce multi-feature index structures for music queries while most of the others are for developing single feature indices. The existing music multi-feature index structures are memory consuming and have lack of scalability. In this paper, we will propose a two-tier music index structure which is an efficient and scalable approach for multi-feature music indexing. Our experimental results show that this new approach outperforms existing multi-feature index schemes.     

基于IMS的移动多媒体广播时移系统信令设计

提出一种基于IMS的移动多媒体广播时移系统架构,该架构融合广播网络和无线移动通信网络,为移动多媒体广播提供时移服务,实现服务与接入无关。设计基于SIP的时移信令流程来完成对时移业务的支撑。利用排队论方法对时移请求信令延迟进行理论分析,结果表明信令延迟能够满足实时性需求,证明该系统是完全可行的。     

分布式同步网络教学系统研究与设计

针对目前网络教学系统的交互功能差和数据流造成的视频播放拥塞的缺点,在分布式网络流媒体教学系统的逻辑模型中对其功能进行分析,研究了分布式多媒体网络教学系统的结构,比较了不同组网方案下的数据传输方案,得出了一种适合于多媒体数据流的组网方案,给出了组播协议,并在VC++上实现了客户端和服务器端,最后通过测试系统主要模块证明系统能够满足多媒体教学的要求。     

一种多媒体信息处理系统的体系结构

文章提出了一种适于多媒体信息处理系统的分层结构模型,给出了基于该模型的多媒体信息处理系统环境的基本构成、层次结构及相应的模块化结构。     

分布式多媒体同步事务规划

文章针对分布式多媒体应用所含的复杂时态关系和分布性特性,利用同步代理构建了一个基于代理的分布式多媒体同步规划系统。并通过对传统Ｐｅｔｒｉ网的扩展,对分布式同步Ｐｅｔｒｉ网（ＤＳＰＮ）进行了定义,并利用ＤＳＰＮ对同步代理进行建模。最后通过对多媒体应用实例的分析,简要说明系统的操作流程。     

基于CORBA的分布式多媒体服务的QoS模型

对于分布式多媒体来说,必须保证包括端系统、通讯系统以及网络在内的整个系统的服务质量（QoS）。CORBA提供了一个开放式的分布式对象计算环境,它能使许多普通的网络程序设计自动化,并允许应用在异构环境下无缝链接。文章根据分布式多媒体通讯系统中的层次结构模型（QOS－A）,提出了一种基于CORBA的分布式多媒体模型。     

基于工作流技术的多媒体远程教学课件模型的设计与实现

利用C／S模型开发多媒体教学课件,通过WEB浏览器访问是多媒体教学研究的发展趋势。文章基于面向对象技术,提出了一种集教学,练习,答疑和考试于一体的交互工作流式多媒体教学模型,并利用办公自动化软件LotusNotes／Domino 在大型机S／390上实现了汇编语言的多媒体教学系统。     

Dejittering in the transport of MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video

When multimedia information is transported over a packet-switched network, the quality of presentation can be degraded due to network delay variation or jitter. This paper presents a dejittering scheme that can be used in the transport of MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 video to absorb any introduced network jitter, thus preserving the presentation quality of transported media streams. The dejittering scheme is based on the statistical approximation of delay variation in the arrival times of video packets carrying encoded clock reference values and a filtering and re-stamping mechanism. In addition, a brief overview of the MPEG-4 system is presented.     

A framework of general instruments for multimedia art creation

In this paper, we propose a framework to develop general instruments for multimedia art creation. Recently, many attempts at creating multimedia art have been made with the aid of computer technology. However, a system for a certain artwork is usually dedicated to the artwork and cannot be applied to other artwork. After overviewing the prerequisites for a general multimedia instrument, we propose a framework for such a system. This framework is based on giving attention to common attributes among several multiple media. Moreover, we illustrate prototype instruments constructed in accordance with this framework. Finally, we show the results of an evaluative performance with the prototype instruments.