New Directions in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia (Hardcover)

Morphic Computing.- Amplifying Video Information-Seeking Success through Rich, Exploratory Interfaces.- Privacy-Enhanced Personalization.- Narrative Interactive Multimedia Learning Environments: Achievements and Challenges.- A Support Vector Machine Approach for Video Shot Detection.- Comparative Performance Evaluation of Artificial Neural Network-Based vs. Human Facial Expression Classifiers for Facial Expression Recognition.- Histographic Steganographic System.- Moving Object Detection and Tracking for the Purpose of Multimodal Surveillance System in Urban Areas.- Image Similarity Search in Large Databases Using a Fast Machine Learning Approach.- Fast Segmentation of Ovarian Ultrasound Volumes Using Support Vector Machines and Sparse Learning Sets.- Fast and Intelligent Determination of Image Segmentation Method Parameters.- Fast Image Segmentation Algorithm Using Wavelet Transform.- Musical Instrument Category Discrimination Using Wavelet-Based Source Separation.- Music Perception as Reflected in Bispectral EEG Analysis under a Mirror Neurons-Based Approach.- Automatic Recognition of Urban Soundscenes.- Low Bitrate Coding of Spot Audio Signals for Interactive and Immersive Audio Applications.- Extracting Input Features and Fuzzy Rules for Forecasting Exchange Rate Using NEWFM.- Forecasting Short-Term KOSPI Time Series Based on NEWFM.- The Convergence Analysis of an Improved Artificial Immune Algorithm for Clustering.- Artificial Immune System-Based Music Genre Classification.- Semantic Information Retrieval Dedicated to Multimedia Systems: A Platform Based on Conceptual Graphs.- Interactive Cluster-Based Personalized Retrieval on Large Document Collections.- Decision Support Services Facilitating Uncertainty Management.- Efficient Knowledge Transfer by Hearing a Conversation While Doing Something.- On Managing Users' Attention in Knowledge-Intensive Organizations.- Two Applications of Paraconsistent Logical Controller.- Encoding Modalities into Extended Petri Net for Analyzing Discrete Event Business Process.- Paraconsistent Before-After Relation Reasoning Based on EVALPSN.- Image Representation with Reduced Spectrum Pyramid.- Constructive Logic and the Sorites Paradox.- Resource Authorization in IMS with Known Multimedia Service Adaptation Capabilities.- Visualizing Ontologies on the Web.- Performance Analysis of ACL Packets Using Turbo Code in Bluetooth Wireless System.- Design and Implementation of Remote Monitoring System for Supporting Safe Subways Based on USN.- Evaluation of PC-Based Real-Time Watermark Embedding System for Standard-Definition Video Stream.- User Authentication Scheme Using Individual Auditory Pop-Out.- Combined Scheme of Encryption and Watermarking in H.264/Scalable Video Coding (SVC).- Evaluation of Integrity Verification System for Video Content Using Digital Watermarking.- Improving the Host Authentication Mechanism for POD Copy Protection System.- User Stereotypes Concerning Cognitive, Personality and Performance Issues in a Collaborative Learning Environment for UML.- Intelligent Mining and Indexing of Multi-language e-Learning Material.- Classic and Multimedia Based Activities to Teach Colors for Both Teachers and Their Pre-school Kids at the Kindergarten of Arab Schools in South of Israel.- TeamSim: An Educational Micro-world for the Teaching of Team Dynamics.- The Computerized Career Gate Test K.17.- Fuzzy Logic Decisions and Web Services for a Personalized Geographical Information System.- Design Rationale of an Adaptive Geographical Information System.- Multimedia, User-Centered Design and Tourism: Simplicity, Originality and Universality.- Dynamically Extracting and Exploiting Information about Customers for Knowledge-Based Interactive TV-Commerce.- Caring TV as a Service Design with and for Elderly People.- A Biosignal Classification Neural Modeling Methodology for Intelligent Hardware Construction.- Virtual Intelligent Agents to Train Abilities of Diagnosis in Psychology and Psychia