Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 41

Volume 41, Number 1, January 2009

• Naoko Nitta, Yoshimasa Takahashi, Noboru Babaguchi:
  Automatic personalized video abstraction for sports videos using metadata. 1-25
  
• Cheng-Chin Chiang, Jyun-Yue Wu, Mau-Tsuen Yang, Wen-Kai Tai:
  Independent query refinement and feature re-weighting using positive and negative examples for content-based image retrieval. 27-53
  
• Péter Kárpáti, Tibor Szkaliczki, László Böszörményi:
  Designing and scaling distributed VoD servers. 55-91
  
• Yanan Liu, Fei Wu:
  Multi-modality video shot clustering with tensor representation. 93-109
  
• Yi Gao, Jiazhong Chen, Shengsheng Yu, Jingli Zhou, Lai-Man Po:
  The training of Karhunen-Loève transform matrix and its application for H.264 intra coding. 111-123
  
• Maurizio Montagnuolo, Alberto Messina:
  Parallel neural networks for multimodal video genre classification. 125-159
  
• Beatriz Sousa Santos, Paulo Dias, Angela Pimentel, Jan-Willem Baggerman, Carlos Ferreira, Samuel S. Silva, Joaquim Madeira:
  Head-mounted display versus desktop for 3D navigation in virtual reality: a user study. 161-181
  

Volume 41, Number 2, January 2009

• Guiguang Ding:
  Distributed video coding based on part intracoding and soft side information estimation. 183-195
  
• Jong-Chul Yoon, In-Kwon Lee, Siwoo Byun:
  Automated music video generation using multi-level feature-based segmentation. 197-214
  
• Benjamin Bustos, Gonzalo Navarro:
  Improving the space cost of k -NN search in metric spaces by using distance estimators. 215-233
  
• Liang Lin, Yongtian Wang, Yue Liu, Caiming Xiong, Kun Zeng:
  Marker-less registration based on template tracking for augmented reality. 235-252
  
• Nicolás Ruiz-Reyes, Pedro Vera-Candeas, J. Enrique Muñoz Expósito, Sebastian García Galán, F. J. Cañadas Quesada:
  New speech/music discrimination approach based on fundamental frequency estimation. 253-286
  
• Hua-Fu Li:
  Pattern discovery and change detection of online music query streams. 287-304
  
• Yeung Siu Fung, John C. S. Lui:
  Hack-proof synchronization protocol for multi-player online games. 305-331
  

Volume 41, Number 3, February 2009

• Marios C. Angelides, Phivos Mylonas, Manolis Wallace:
  Editorial: Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization. 333-336
  
• Evaggelos Spyrou, Giorgos Tolias, Phivos Mylonas, Yannis S. Avrithis:
  Concept detection and keyframe extraction using a visual thesaurus. 337-373
  
• Harry W. Agius, Marios C. Angelides:
  From MPEG-7 user interaction tools to hanging basket models: bridging the gap. 375-406
  
• Martín López Nores, Yolanda Blanco-Fernández, José J. Pazos Arias, Jorge García Duque, Manuel Ramos Cabrer, Alberto Gil-Solla, Rebeca P. Díaz Redondo, Ana Fernández Vilas:
  Receiver-side semantic reasoning for digital TV personalization in the absence of return channels. 407-436
  
• Rene Kaiser, Michael Hausenblas, Martin Umgeher:
  Metadata-driven interactive web video assembly. 437-467
  
• Stylianos Asteriadis, Paraskevi K. Tzouveli, Kostas Karpouzis, Stefanos D. Kollias:
  Estimation of behavioral user state based on eye gaze and head pose - application in an e-learning environment. 469-493