With the growth of using World Wide Web (WWW), WWW has become a powerful means of dissemination of information. Thus, the demand for faster, more efficient, and more convenient ways for accessing to WWW are urgently r...
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(纸本)0769512364
With the growth of using World Wide Web (WWW), WWW has become a powerful means of dissemination of information. Thus, the demand for faster, more efficient, and more convenient ways for accessing to WWW are urgently required. Consequently, the heterogeneous I/O client devices, i.e., DTMF telephone sets, fax machines, pocket PCs, cellular phones, note books, desktop computers, are devised to allow users to access to WWW. In order to provide suitable WWW access interfaces, currently, many mark-up languages and systems are proposed for these heterogeneous I/O client devices. As a result, n heterogeneous I/O devices need n mark-up languages and systems using this approach. In this paper, we propose a mark-up language, called Quality of Information Mark-up Language (QIML), and browsing systems to resolve the above problem. With QIML, one can provide suitable and flexible content to heterogeneous client devices, including computers, cellular phones, traditional DTMF telephone sets, and fax machines, using one mark-up language and system. In this way, the overhead for maintaining many web servers for servicing users with heterogeneous I/O client devices can be reduced a lot.
There is an urgent need for effective content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems, and we believe the key to effective CBIR performance lies in the ability to access the image at the level of objects. Motivated by th...
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There is an urgent need for effective content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems, and we believe the key to effective CBIR performance lies in the ability to access the image at the level of objects. Motivated by these considerations, we propose a region-based image retrieval system using max weighted bipartite matching, which can successfully solve the similarity measure of a multi-region image. The retrieval involves two stages: first, the images are segmented based on perceptual color homogeneity, for each color region, color, texture, scale, location and shape characteristics are used to represent the content of regions. Second, the max weighted bipartite matching scheme is used to measure the similarity between images. Experimental results show that a region-based approach can retrieve more relevant and more accurate images.
This paper presents three implementations of triple data encryption standard (3DES) algorithm on a configurable platform. Implementations are aimed at the medium access control (MAC) protocol of a multimedia-capable w...
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This paper presents three implementations of triple data encryption standard (3DES) algorithm on a configurable platform. Implementations are aimed at the medium access control (MAC) protocol of a multimedia-capable wireless local area network (WLAN). For this reason, very strict timing constraints as well as demands for area-efficiency are present. The MAC processing is handled by a digital signal processor (DSP) and a Xilinx Virtex field programmable gate array (FPGA) chip. The latter one is also used for the presented encryption implementations. As a result of the study, 3DES implementations with small area and reasonable throughput and, on the contrary, with large area and very high throughput are realized. Even though 3DES turns out to be quite large and resource-demanding, the implementations still leave enough chip area for the other MAC functions. Consequently, the set requirements are met and the cipher can be integrated into the system.
We describe a query-by-content search engine that enables a radiologist to search a large database of diagnostically-proven ("benign" or "malignant") mammographic regions of interest (ROIs). The da...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819440094
We describe a query-by-content search engine that enables a radiologist to search a large database of diagnostically-proven ("benign" or "malignant") mammographic regions of interest (ROIs). The database search is facilitated by a relational map which is a two-dimensional display of all the ROIs in the database. Labeled points on the map represent ROIs in the database. The map is constructed from the output of a neural network that has been trained to cluster the ROIs in the database using a measure of perceptual similarity. To use the search facility of our computer-aided diagnosis system a radiologist selects a ROI from a digitized mammogram and submits the ROI as a query to the search engine. The search engine first maps the query ROI to its appropriate location on the relational map. The search engine then retrieves the ROIs that are closest to the query ROI on the relational map. These retrieved ROIs are from the same cluster on the relational map. The results of the search are presented to the radiologist in the form of the retrieved ROIs, along with related information such as biopsy result and patient age. The radiologist can also perform an unrestricted search by selecting any point on the relational map. The search engine will then return the closest ROIs to the selected point. The search engine is implemented using a three-layer distributed architecture. The first layer is a Java-based user interface that allows a radiologist to view a digital mammogram, to enhance the mammogram, to select a ROI, and to query the database. The second layer is a web server that generates HTML for the web client and provides access to the image processing algorithms, the neural network, and the image search functions. The third layer is a remote database containing the ROIs and associated patient information. The embedding of this search engine into an integrated diagnostic system may help the radiologist to incorporate subtle image relationships into the diagnostic process
The scrambling scheme is a part of the conditional access system (CAS) that is used to prevent unauthorized access to Pay-TV systems. We propose a new scrambling scheme and key distribution scheme. The scrambling sche...
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The scrambling scheme is a part of the conditional access system (CAS) that is used to prevent unauthorized access to Pay-TV systems. We propose a new scrambling scheme and key distribution scheme. The scrambling scheme is used in conjunction with ordinary encryption techniques, for protecting the digital video streams from unauthorized viewing. A hash function and a pseudo-random number generator are used to prepare the video stream before being encrypted. The proposed scheme helps reduce computational time and complexity while providing the same level of security as encrypting the entire video stream. In addition, the proposed secure key distribution scheme can be used with any, scrambling scheme e.g. with our scrambling scheme. By using the Chinese remainder theorem (CRT) for distributing parameters in the scrambling process, the security of the scheme can be increased. Moreover, our scheme can prevent two common problems, namely, smart card cloning and McCormac Hack.
With the increasing popularity of the WWW, the main challenge in computer science has become content-based retrieval of multimedia objects. access to multimedia objects in databases has long been limited to the inform...
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With the increasing popularity of the WWW, the main challenge in computer science has become content-based retrieval of multimedia objects. access to multimedia objects in databases has long been limited to the information provided in manually assigned keywords. Now, with the integration of feature-detection algorithms in database systems software, content-based retrieval can be fully integrated with query processing. We describe our experimentation platform under development, making database technology available to multimedia. Our approach is based on the new notion of feature databases. Its architecture fully integrates traditional query processing and content-based retrieval techniques.
Users of browsing applications often have vague information needs which can only be described in conceptual terms. Therefore, a video browsing system must accept conceptual queries for preselection and offer mechanism...
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Users of browsing applications often have vague information needs which can only be described in conceptual terms. Therefore, a video browsing system must accept conceptual queries for preselection and offer mechanisms for interactive inspection of the result set by the user. In this paper, we describe a MM-DBMS that we extended with the following components: Our retrieval engine calculates relevance values for the results of a conceptual query by feature aggregation on video shot granularity to offer conceptual, content-based access. To reduce startup delays within sessions, our admission control module admits only complete browsing sessions, if required resources, which are heuristically predicted from query results, are available. In addition, our intelligent client buffer strategy employs the retrieval relevance values to enable flexible user interactions during browsing.
Tarsys is a video archive system which combines the flexible organization of multimedia databases, the efficiency of real-time filesystems and the scalability of tertiary storage (magnetic tape libraries and optical j...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0819438758
Tarsys is a video archive system which combines the flexible organization of multimedia databases, the efficiency of real-time filesystems and the scalability of tertiary storage (magnetic tape libraries and optical jukeboxes). Heavy data transfers over the network are usual between video servers and their clients. Tarsys reduces network traffic through the use of a remote manipulation protocol, so that only required fragments of multimedia data are transfered. Tarsys provides a suitable platform for the automatic extraction of content information from multimedia data. It also provides management of content based queries and efficient access to video fragments found by queries. These facilities in the access to archived videos make it ideal for large TV digital archives and scientific databases where it constitutes a platform for quick development of custom video analysis.
Collaborative filtering is an important technology for creating user-adapting Web sites. In general the efforts of improving filtering algorithms and using the predictions for the presentation of filtered objects are ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0780365364
Collaborative filtering is an important technology for creating user-adapting Web sites. In general the efforts of improving filtering algorithms and using the predictions for the presentation of filtered objects are decoupled. Therefore, common measures (or metrics) for evaluating collaborative filtering (recommender) systems focus mainly on the prediction algorithm. It is hard to relate the classic measurements to actual user satisfaction because of the way the user interacts with the recommendations, determined by their representation, influences the benefits for the user. We propose an abstract access paradigm, which can be applied to the design of filtering systems, and at the same time formalizes the access to filtering results via multi-corridors (based on content-based categories). This leads to new measures which better relate to the user satisfaction. We use these measures to evaluate the use of various kinds of multi-corridors for our prototype user-adapting Web site the: Active WebMuseum.
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Coorg, SRIBM Corp
Thomas J Watson Res Ctr Yorktown Hts NY 10598 USA
Combining 3-D graphics and video to generate a seamless visual stream is an important problem encountered in producing multimediacontent. Difficulties in dealing with perspective, occlusion, and illumination make thi...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0780365364
Combining 3-D graphics and video to generate a seamless visual stream is an important problem encountered in producing multimediacontent. Difficulties in dealing with perspective, occlusion, and illumination make this problem challenging. In this paper, I propose techniques based on standard computer vision algorithms that address perspective and occlusion problems effectively. The key insight employed is that while the general vision problem is difficult to solve, the nature of this application permits simple, effective solutions. I present results of the proposed algorithms on a sample test video sequence.
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