N. Dimitrova, H. Elenbaas, T. McGee, E. Leyvi, L. Agnihotri
{"title":"An architecture for video content filtering in consumer domain","authors":"N. Dimitrova, H. Elenbaas, T. McGee, E. Leyvi, L. Agnihotri","doi":"10.1109/ITCC.2000.844213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITCC.2000.844213","url":null,"abstract":"The transition from analog to digital video enables consumer access to an enormous amount of high quality video material. The authors describe an architecture of a video content filtering system through video analysis and abstraction. They explain the algorithms for video characterization, their performance and practical considerations for including them in the architecture for video filtering. The algorithms and the architecture for abstracted video representation can be used in a variety of consumer domain applications, such as a personalized news retrieval system, home video library or commercial skipping.","PeriodicalId":146581,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (Cat. No.PR00540)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131211700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The development of a betting system on the Internet","authors":"K. Ng, Y. Siu","doi":"10.1109/ITCC.2000.844243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITCC.2000.844243","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the development of a betting system for horse-racing on the Internet. The system is set up by using Java Web Server to run on the Windows NT platform. The server uses Java Servlets to handle the requests from customers, to connect the database server, and to generate dynamic content for the Web browser. HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is combined with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) protocol to guarantee secure transactions through the Internet. The system allows registered WWW users to access the Web site for processing real-time betting transactions and obtaining on-line racing information.","PeriodicalId":146581,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (Cat. No.PR00540)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124303873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Copy protection for high-definition baseband video","authors":"D. Barr","doi":"10.1109/ITCC.2000.844202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITCC.2000.844202","url":null,"abstract":"A copy protection (CP) system is proposed for transmission of high-definition (HD) baseband video signals among consumer electronic (CE) products in the home. An encryption technique adds fluctuating pseudo-random amplitude-offsets to the components of the video signal to be protected, thereby disrupting the entertainment value of intercepted signals. The decryption technique subtracts equivalent offsets regenerated by legitimate receiving devices, thereby restoring the signal. The value of each offset remains constant for the duration of each horizontal scan line so that simple analog voltage summing/differencing circuits can be used for encryption/decryption of analog video signals. The same simple encryption/decryption algorithms can be used for digital implementations to protect digital transmission. Arguments are presented regarding why a CP system for baseband HD video is needed to ensure forward compatible access to premium content by emerging categories of HD-capable CE products. Prototype hardware implementing the analog encryption/decryption techniques has been successfully demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":146581,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (Cat. No.PR00540)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116858353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing hypermedia documentation for safety critical applications","authors":"R. Newman","doi":"10.1109/ITCC.2000.844223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITCC.2000.844223","url":null,"abstract":"The paper discusses the requirements for authoring methodologies for large multimedia systems to be used for technical documentation in the domain of 'safety critical' industries. In such industries the documentation used to support maintenance and repair may itself be safety critical, in that incorrect documentation can lead to incorrect maintenance procedures. Design issues for such systems include those of the verifiable, both in terms of their content and other issues such as sequence of presentation. It is argued that the addressing of these issues is essential to the development of technical documentation systems that are of sufficient quality to be used for safety critical applications such as within the transport industry. The requirements that viable design methodologies for these applications must address are discussed, and a methodology is proposed, based on traditional authoring methods and process algebra based formal specification and verification.","PeriodicalId":146581,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (Cat. No.PR00540)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126460634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Data placement scheme on continuous media servers with ZBR disks","authors":"Shunnian Zhai, T.K.Y. Chan","doi":"10.1109/ITCC.2000.844238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITCC.2000.844238","url":null,"abstract":"Recent advances in computer technologies have made it feasible to provide multimedia services. As a result, the research and development of continuous media servers has received more attention in recent years. In general, these servers consist of multiple zone-bit recording (ZBR) disks or multiple storage nodes connected through the high-speed network to construct a distributed server. One key issue in developing continuous media servers is the allocation of data into ZBR disks. We propose a novel data placement scheme, called VARBT (variable block-size and data-transfer-time), to fully utilize the characteristics of ZBR disks. The proposed scheme determines data block size in each zone completely according to the capacity of that zone thus the storage utilization is 100%. During the process of data retrieval, the data transfer rate for each block is equal to the bandwidth of each physical zone thus the bandwidth utilization is also maximal. This scheme can be applied not only to a single-disk platform, but also to a multiple-disk server and even a distributed server with multiple storage nodes. Through simulations and performance evaluation, we found that VARBT scheme has the smaller average block size, required memory space and system response time to support more simultaneous streams, and meanwhile it achieves 100% storage utilization and bandwidth utilization.","PeriodicalId":146581,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (Cat. No.PR00540)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133194331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}