Mobile Multimedia Processing, 2010 Fundamentals, Methods, and Applications Computer Communication Networks and Telecommunications Series

The portable device and mobile phone market has witnessed rapid growth in the last few years with the emergence of several revolutionary products such as mobile TV, converging iPhone and digital cameras that combine music, phone and video functionalities into one device. The proliferation of this market has further bene?ted from the competition in software and applications for smart phones such as Google?s Android operating system and Apple?s iPhone App- Store, stimulating tens of thousands of mobile applications that are made ava- able by individual and enterprise developers. Whereas the mobile device has become ubiquitous in people?s daily life not only as a cellular phone but also as a media player, a mobile computing device, and a personal assistant, it is p- ticularly important to address challenges timely in applying advanced pattern recognition, signal, information and multimedia processing techniques, and new emerging networking technologies to such mobile systems. The primary objective of this book is to foster interdisciplinary discussions and research in mobile multimedia processing techniques, applications and s- tems, as well as to provide stimulus to researchers on pushing the frontier of emerging new technologies and applications. One attempt on such discussions was the organization of the First Int- national Workshop of Mobile Multimedia Processing (WMMP 2008), held in Tampa, Florida, USA, on December 7, 2008. About 30 papers were submitted from10countriesacrosstheUSA,Asia andEurope.

Accessibility and Learning.- iFeeling: Vibrotactile Rendering of Human Emotions on Mobile Phones.- Mobile Visual Aid Tools for Users with Visual Impairments.- QR Code and Augmented Reality-Supported Mobile English Learning System.- Server Assisted Adaptation and Networking Applications.- Robust 1-D Barcode Recognition on Camera Phones and Mobile Product Information Display.- Evaluating the Adaptation of Multimedia Services Using a Constraints-Based Approach.- Mobile Video Surveillance Systems: An Architectural Overview.- Hybrid Layered Video Encoding for Mobile Internet-Based Computer Vision and Multimedia Applications.- Entertainment.- A Recommender Handoff Framework for a Mobile Device.- MuZeeker: Adapting a Music Search Engine for Mobile Phones.- A Server-Assisted Approach for Mobile-Phone Games.- Face and Speech Processing.- A Face Cartoon Producer for Digital Content Service.- Face Detection in Resource Constrained Wireless Systems.- Speech Recognition on Mobile Devices.- Development Environment.- Developing Mobile Multimedia Applications on Symbian OS Devices.- Developing Mobile Applications on the Android Platform.

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