The ISO/IEC committee in charge of standardizing the well-known MPEG audiovisual standards has launched, in cooperation with the ISO committee on Biotechnology, a new activity for efficient compressed storage and transmission ...

Medical data describe patient health information, both in healthy and disease conditions. In any case, health institutions need to ask for patient consent in order to provide their services. Patients usually give consent ...

Authors of scholarly objects might fear that there is a potential risk that the original material they publish in online sites or that they submit for evaluation to scientific journals or conferences is used by others as ...

There are several initiatives working in the definition and implementation of distributed architectures that enable the development of distributed multimedia applications on top of them, while offering Digital Rights ...

The management of electronic health records (EHR), in general, and clinical documents, in particular, is becoming a key issue in the daily work of Healthcare Organizations (HO). The need for providing secure and private ...

Digital still images are generated, distributed and stored worldwide at an ever increasing rate. Yet, the large number of available metadata description formats prevents consistent and efficient access to image repositories. ...

The research around visual search is gaining relevance due to the evolution in the generation and usage of digital images. A significant push comes from the mobile visual search topic, due to the widespread proliferation ...

Mòdul desenvolupat sobre Moodle que permet definir tests per a que els alumnes s’autoavaluïn Objectius: Proporcionar als alumnes més problemes resolts. Noves activitats docents per reduir les sessions presencials. Fomentar ...

Context-aware applications are becoming very popular as they are a mean of enriching users' experiences in multimedia scenarios. Nevertheless, the acquisition, representation, and protection of contextual information are ...