This paper investigates the performance of a new technique for speech enhancement which combines Linear...

This paper investigates how the directional characteristics of an Acoustic Vector Sensor (AVS) can be...

The phenomenal growth in multimedia content has lead to the development of a variety of...

The development of MP3 and JPEG sparked an explosion in digital content on the internet....

ln recent years, the amount of Internet accessible digital audiovisual media files has vastly increased....

MQF is a new XML based format designed to facilitate communication between disparate systems for...

This paper presents a novel solution to multichannel spatial audio coding: Spatial Squeezing Surround Audio...

Universal Multimedia Access promises to adaptively deliver multimedia content to users according to their needs?whether...

Developing the code to parse and generate multimedia bitstreams has traditionally been a repetitive and...

The Bitstream Binding Language (BBL) is a new technology developed by the authors and being...

This paper proposes a P2P architecture which uses MPEG-21 as a standard based technique to...

Adaptive arrays have been used extensively in wireless communications applications to reduce interference between desired...

A blind signal separation algorithm (SCAtemp) that exploits both the sparse time-frequency representation and temporal...

The Bitstream Binding Language (BBL) is a new technology developed by the authors and being...

XML is a popular approach to interoperable exchange of Multimedia metadata between a wide range...

Adaptive Arrays have been used extensively in wireless communications applications to reduce interference between desired...

A dynamic P2P architecture was proposed in our previous work to support resource adaptation/personalization according...

Our previous work proposed a MPEG-21 based P2P network architecture supporting resource adaptation on the...

XML is a popular approach to interoperable exchange of data between a wide range of...

A dynamic P2P architecture based on MPEG-21 was proposed in our previous work to support...

We propose a new blind signal separation (BSS)technique, developed specifically for speech, that exploits a...

Within the MPEG-21 Multimedia Framework, Digital Items are introduced as a structured digital representation for...

A sequential approach to sparse component analysis (SeqTIF) is proposed in this paper. Although SeqTIF...

MPEG-21, the new Multimedia Framework standard is nearing completion. It is centred around the concept...

The vision of MPEG-21-the multimedia framework-is to enable transparent and augmented use of multimedia resources...

This paper investigates the performance of blind signal separation (BSS) algorithms that exploit the temporal...

Bitstream Binding Language (BBL) provides an abstraction layer between XML multimedia containers and the way...

XML is becoming increasingly popular as the ubiquitous standard for metadata; consequently, it is being...

This work investigates the validity and accuracy of using spatialcues with Time-Delay Estimation (TDE) as...

At the core of the MPEG-21 Multimedia Framework is the concept of the Digital Item,...

This paper focuses on metadata-based, multimedia resource representation and retrieval in a P2P environment as...

Image processing techniques including image restoration rely heavily on discrete Fourier transform (DFT) for frequency...

A novel method of separating the point spread function from blurred images using zeros of...

The paper discusses media streaming using dynamic resource adaptation and update as a means of...

The Webster horn equation describes the pressure wave in a duct of slowly varying cross...

MPEG-21 is an open standards-based framework for multimedia delivery and consumption. It aims to enable...

This paper investigates waveform interpolation (WI) applied low bit rate wideband speech coding. An analysis...

This paper presents a scalable to lossless compression scheme that allows scalability in terms of...

This paper examines a scalable method for coding the LP residual. The scalable method is...

This paper proposes a technique for scalable and also provides for lossless compression. It reduces...

The previous decade has seen a variety of trends and developments in the area of...

The goals and achievements of MPEG-21, an open standards-based framework for multimedia delivery consumption, are...

This paper investigates the extension of waveform interpolation (WI) to wideband speech coding. Included is...

Decomposition of speech signals into periodic and noise components is widely used in speech coding...

This paper reports a scalable method for coding the LP residual. The scalable method is...

This paper analyses two narrowband speech codecs, the 4.8 kbit/s FS1016 coder and the 8...

Audio stream segregation is a task performed constantly by the human auditory system, yet is...

This paper describes the use of sorted sinusoidal parameters to produce a fixed rate, scalable,...

Reducing the bit rate of waveform interpolation speech coders while maintaining the perceptual quality has...

This paper describes a new audio coding scheme based on sinusoidal coding of signals. Sinusoidal...

This paper considers low-rate waveform interpolation (WI) coding. It compares the existing, common slowly evolving...

An investigation into low bit rate wideband speech coding for applications such as unicast streaming...

This paper uses a method of incorporating simultaneous masking into the calculation of a linear...

This paper investigates the properties of analytic transformation of speech into envelope and phase functions....

This paper presents a waveform-matched waveform interpolation (WMWI) technique which enables improved speech analysis over...

In very low rate coding the aim is to accurately represent speech characteristics as efficiently...

A waveform-matched waveform interpolation (WMWI) technique is presented which offers improved signal analysis over standard...

Whilst linear prediction is the cornerstone of most modern speech coders, few of these coders...

This correspondence uses a pitch synchronous wavelet transform (PSWT) as an alternative characteristic waveform decomposition...

Over the last few years, there has been an increase in the number of multimedia-enabled...

In this work we explore a simple method for reducing the bit rate needed for...

Intelligent multimedia delivery uses semantic information about content to enhance the delivery process. This paper...

The Bitstream Binding Language (BBL) is a new technology developed by the authors and being...

This paper describes construction of a convolutional interleaver as a block interleaver and discusses its...