Ireproving the quality and experience perceived by the user is fundamental when de- veloping multimedia technologies, products, and services. Quality of experience （QoE） involves subjective perception, user behavior...Ireproving the quality and experience perceived by the user is fundamental when de- veloping multimedia technologies, products, and services. Quality of experience （QoE） involves subjective perception, user behavior and needs, appropriateness, con- text, and usability of delivered content. Modeling QoE is critical for enhancing QoE in various nmhimedia applications. In this special issue,展开更多
Power control is an important technique in WCDMA mobile systems for both increasing system capacity and guaranteeing the required QoS (time delay and wireless link transmission quality) of multimedia services. The opt...Power control is an important technique in WCDMA mobile systems for both increasing system capacity and guaranteeing the required QoS (time delay and wireless link transmission quality) of multimedia services. The optimum power control for narrow band CDMA cellular systems is a problem of single threshold optimization. Because these systems have only one type of traffic and have the same QoS requirement. However, WCDMA mobile system should provide multimedia services and different types of traffic have different QoS requirements. Thus, the power control in WCDMA mobile systems isn't a problem of single threshold optimizing, but turns into the optimizing problem of multi-threshold. We analyze the power control problem in WCDMA cellular mobile systems and propose the optimum transmitter power control algorithm. Three criteria to optimize transmitter power levels of multi-thresholds based on grading the priority orders of multimedia services are proposed. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithms are more effective than conventional algorithms and can provide better performance for WCDMA cellular mobile systems.展开更多
Sports video appeals to large audiences due to its high commercial potentials. Automatically extracting useful semantic information and generating highlight summary from sports video to facilitate users' accessing...Sports video appeals to large audiences due to its high commercial potentials. Automatically extracting useful semantic information and generating highlight summary from sports video to facilitate users' accessing requirements is an important problem, especially in the forthcoming broadband mobile communication and the need for users to access their multimedia information of interest from anywhere at anytime with their most convenient digital equipments. A system to generate highlight summaries oriented for mobile applications is introduced, which includes highlight extraction and video adaptation. In this system, several highlight extraction techniques are provided for field sports video and racket sports video by using multi-modal information. To enhance users' viewing experience and save bandwidth, 3D animation from highlight segment is also generated. As an important procedure to make video analysis results universally applicable, video transcoding techniques are applied to adapt the video for mobile communication environment and user preference. Experimental results are encouraging and show the advantage and feasibility of the system for multimedia content personalization, enhancement and adaptation to meet different user preference and network/device requirements.展开更多
A file format for storage of scalable video is proposed. A generic model is presented to enable a codec independent description of scalable video stream. The relationships, especially the dependencies, among sub-strea...A file format for storage of scalable video is proposed. A generic model is presented to enable a codec independent description of scalable video stream. The relationships, especially the dependencies, among sub-streams in a scalable video stream are specified sufficiently and effectively in the proposed model. Complying with the presented scalable video stream model, the file format for scalable video is proposed based on ISO Base Media File Format, which is simple and flexible enough to address the demands of scalable video application as well as the non-scalable ones.展开更多
MVP is a digital signal processor, which is of MIMD structure and fit for multimedia application. MVP has several processors in it, and its operation is characteristic of parallelism and pipeline; therefore, real-time...MVP is a digital signal processor, which is of MIMD structure and fit for multimedia application. MVP has several processors in it, and its operation is characteristic of parallelism and pipeline; therefore, real-time signal processing can be done on it. This paper presents the image processing system based on MVP, explains the principles of parallel task assignment and hardware pipeline design, and gives out the example of target tracking and edge detection.展开更多
Synchronization is an important issue in multimedia systems which integrate a variety of temporally related media objects. One part of synchronization is the representation of temporal information. With the emerging ...Synchronization is an important issue in multimedia systems which integrate a variety of temporally related media objects. One part of synchronization is the representation of temporal information. With the emerging illteractive multimedia, deterministic temporal models are replaced by nondeterministic ones with more expressiveness. This paper classifies temporal models by their expressiveness, and evaluates relevant nondeterministic temporal relations in multimedia data. Additionally, an intervalbased nondeterndnistic model based on a complete temporal operator set is proposed providing highlevel abstractions and a high degree of expressiveness for interactive multimedia systems.展开更多
This paper presents a new index system for the performance evaluation and network planning of multimedia communication systems using measurement on actual systems to support several different traffic types. In this in...This paper presents a new index system for the performance evaluation and network planning of multimedia communication systems using measurement on actual systems to support several different traffic types. In this index system, we develop an expert system to evaluate the performance of such multimedia communication networks including channel utilization and call blocking probability and packet delay, and apply the network planning methods to optimize the networks and forecast the demand of the growing multimedia communications systems. Two important planning problems for the multimedia communication systems are presented: optimization problem for construction of the world system and forecast problem for increasing traffic demands. We first discuss analysis methods, performance measures for the multimedia communication systems. Then, we describe network planning methods for the multimedia communication systems and give some efficiency network planning methods. Finally, we present some results studied in traffic forecast for the campus network and show the effectiveness of these methods.展开更多
A 2.4-m communication link operating at 3.9 THz based on a terahertz quantum cascade laser and a terahertz quantum well photodetector （THz QWP） are introduced. The lumped electrical models of THz QWP for small signa...A 2.4-m communication link operating at 3.9 THz based on a terahertz quantum cascade laser and a terahertz quantum well photodetector （THz QWP） are introduced. The lumped electrical models of THz QWP for small signals are presented. A discussion of the bandwidth limit of the detecting circuit is presented. Using direct on off-keying modulation and intensity detection, the transmission of digital video signal with a data rate of 2.5 Mb/s is demonstrated. Pseudo-random binary sequences are transmitted to investigate the bit-error rate （BER） at different rates. Result shows the error free transmission when the rate is below 5 Mb/s.展开更多
A new generation algorithm of two-dimensional triple-codeweight asymmetric optical orthogonal codes for optical code division multiple access （OCDMA） networks is proposed. The code cardinality is obtained and the er...A new generation algorithm of two-dimensional triple-codeweight asymmetric optical orthogonal codes for optical code division multiple access （OCDMA） networks is proposed. The code cardinality is obtained and the error-probability performance for corresponding OCDMA system is analyzed. The codes with two constraints （i.e., auto- and cross-correlation properties） being unequal are taken into account. On the premise of fixed system resources, the code of the error-probability performance, it is shown cardinality can be significantly improved. By analysis that the codes with different parameters have different performances. Therefore, this type of codes can be applied to support diverse quality of service （QoS） and satisfy the quality requirement of different multimedia or distinct users, and simultaneously make the better use of bandwidth resources in oDtical networks.展开更多
文摘Ireproving the quality and experience perceived by the user is fundamental when de- veloping multimedia technologies, products, and services. Quality of experience （QoE） involves subjective perception, user behavior and needs, appropriateness, con- text, and usability of delivered content. Modeling QoE is critical for enhancing QoE in various nmhimedia applications. In this special issue,
文摘Power control is an important technique in WCDMA mobile systems for both increasing system capacity and guaranteeing the required QoS (time delay and wireless link transmission quality) of multimedia services. The optimum power control for narrow band CDMA cellular systems is a problem of single threshold optimization. Because these systems have only one type of traffic and have the same QoS requirement. However, WCDMA mobile system should provide multimedia services and different types of traffic have different QoS requirements. Thus, the power control in WCDMA mobile systems isn't a problem of single threshold optimizing, but turns into the optimizing problem of multi-threshold. We analyze the power control problem in WCDMA cellular mobile systems and propose the optimum transmitter power control algorithm. Three criteria to optimize transmitter power levels of multi-thresholds based on grading the priority orders of multimedia services are proposed. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithms are more effective than conventional algorithms and can provide better performance for WCDMA cellular mobile systems.
基金Project supported by NEC Research of China (No. 0P2004001),"Science 100 Plan" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. m2041),and the Natural Science Foundation (No. 4063041) of Beijing, China
文摘Sports video appeals to large audiences due to its high commercial potentials. Automatically extracting useful semantic information and generating highlight summary from sports video to facilitate users' accessing requirements is an important problem, especially in the forthcoming broadband mobile communication and the need for users to access their multimedia information of interest from anywhere at anytime with their most convenient digital equipments. A system to generate highlight summaries oriented for mobile applications is introduced, which includes highlight extraction and video adaptation. In this system, several highlight extraction techniques are provided for field sports video and racket sports video by using multi-modal information. To enhance users' viewing experience and save bandwidth, 3D animation from highlight segment is also generated. As an important procedure to make video analysis results universally applicable, video transcoding techniques are applied to adapt the video for mobile communication environment and user preference. Experimental results are encouraging and show the advantage and feasibility of the system for multimedia content personalization, enhancement and adaptation to meet different user preference and network/device requirements.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60572104) and the Natural Science Foundation (No. 40410031) of Beijing, China.
文摘A file format for storage of scalable video is proposed. A generic model is presented to enable a codec independent description of scalable video stream. The relationships, especially the dependencies, among sub-streams in a scalable video stream are specified sufficiently and effectively in the proposed model. Complying with the presented scalable video stream model, the file format for scalable video is proposed based on ISO Base Media File Format, which is simple and flexible enough to address the demands of scalable video application as well as the non-scalable ones.
文摘MVP is a digital signal processor, which is of MIMD structure and fit for multimedia application. MVP has several processors in it, and its operation is characteristic of parallelism and pipeline; therefore, real-time signal processing can be done on it. This paper presents the image processing system based on MVP, explains the principles of parallel task assignment and hardware pipeline design, and gives out the example of target tracking and edge detection.
文摘Synchronization is an important issue in multimedia systems which integrate a variety of temporally related media objects. One part of synchronization is the representation of temporal information. With the emerging illteractive multimedia, deterministic temporal models are replaced by nondeterministic ones with more expressiveness. This paper classifies temporal models by their expressiveness, and evaluates relevant nondeterministic temporal relations in multimedia data. Additionally, an intervalbased nondeterndnistic model based on a complete temporal operator set is proposed providing highlevel abstractions and a high degree of expressiveness for interactive multimedia systems.
基金This work was supported partly by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.79990583 and 70221001
文摘This paper presents a new index system for the performance evaluation and network planning of multimedia communication systems using measurement on actual systems to support several different traffic types. In this index system, we develop an expert system to evaluate the performance of such multimedia communication networks including channel utilization and call blocking probability and packet delay, and apply the network planning methods to optimize the networks and forecast the demand of the growing multimedia communications systems. Two important planning problems for the multimedia communication systems are presented: optimization problem for construction of the world system and forecast problem for increasing traffic demands. We first discuss analysis methods, performance measures for the multimedia communication systems. Then, we describe network planning methods for the multimedia communication systems and give some efficiency network planning methods. Finally, we present some results studied in traffic forecast for the campus network and show the effectiveness of these methods.
基金supported by the National"863"Pro-gram of China(No.2011AA010205)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61131006,6117 6086,and 61204135)+3 种基金the Major National Development Project of Scientific Instrument and Equipment(No.2011YQ150021)the Important National Science and Technology Specific Projects(No.2011ZX02707)the Major Project(No.YYYJ-1123-1)the International Collaboration and Innovation Program on High Mobility Materials Engineering of Chinese Academy of Sciences,and the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Sci-ence and Technology(Nos.10JC1417000,11ZR1444000,and 11ZR1444200)
文摘A 2.4-m communication link operating at 3.9 THz based on a terahertz quantum cascade laser and a terahertz quantum well photodetector （THz QWP） are introduced. The lumped electrical models of THz QWP for small signals are presented. A discussion of the bandwidth limit of the detecting circuit is presented. Using direct on off-keying modulation and intensity detection, the transmission of digital video signal with a data rate of 2.5 Mb/s is demonstrated. Pseudo-random binary sequences are transmitted to investigate the bit-error rate （BER） at different rates. Result shows the error free transmission when the rate is below 5 Mb/s.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under GrantsNo. 60472035 and 60772001
文摘A new generation algorithm of two-dimensional triple-codeweight asymmetric optical orthogonal codes for optical code division multiple access （OCDMA） networks is proposed. The code cardinality is obtained and the error-probability performance for corresponding OCDMA system is analyzed. The codes with two constraints （i.e., auto- and cross-correlation properties） being unequal are taken into account. On the premise of fixed system resources, the code of the error-probability performance, it is shown cardinality can be significantly improved. By analysis that the codes with different parameters have different performances. Therefore, this type of codes can be applied to support diverse quality of service （QoS） and satisfy the quality requirement of different multimedia or distinct users, and simultaneously make the better use of bandwidth resources in oDtical networks.
