Handbook of Multimedia for Digital Entertainment and Arts

DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGIES.- Personalized Movie Recommendation.- Cross-category Recommendation for Multimedia Content.- Semantic-Based Framework for Integration and Personalization of Television Related Media.- Personalization on a Peer-to-Peer Television System.- A Target Advertisement System Based on TV Viewer's Profile Reasoning.- Digital Video Quality Assessment Algorithms.- Countermeasures for Time-Cheat Detection in Multiplayer Online Games.- Zoning Issues and Area of Interest Management in Massively Multiplayer Online Games.- Cross-Modal Approach for Karaoke Artifacts Correction.- Dealing Bandwidth to Mobile Clients Using Games.- Hack-proof Synchronization Protocol for Multi-player Online Games.- Collaborative Movie Annotation.- DIGITAL AUDITORY MEDIA.- Content Based Digital Music Management and Retrieval.- Incentive Mechanisms for Mobile Music Distribution.- Pattern Discovery and Change Detection of Online Music Query Streams.- Music Search and Recommendation.- Automated Music Video Generation Using Multi-level Feature-based Segmentation.- DIGITAL VISUAL MEDIA.- Real-Time Content Filtering for Live Broadcasts in TV Terminals.- Digital Theater: Dynamic Theatre Spaces.- Video Browsing on Handheld Devices.- Projector-Camera Systems in Entertainment and Art.- Believable Characters.- Computer Graphics Using Raytracing.- The 3D Human Motion Control Through Refined Video Gesture Annotation.- DIGITAL ART.- Information Technology and Art: Concepts and State of the Practice.- Augmented Reality and Mobile Art.- The Creation Process in Digital Art.- Graphical User Interface in Art.- Storytelling on the Web 2.0 as a New Means of Creating Arts.- CULTURE OF NEW MEDIA.- A Study of Interactive Narrative from User's Perspective.- Soundscapes/Artabilitation - Evolutionof a Hybrid Human Performance Concept, Method & Apparatus Where Digital Interactive Media, The Arts, & Entertainment are Combined.- Natural Interaction in Intelligent Spaces: Designing for

The list of contributors includes:

Jakob Abesser, Fraunhofer Institute, Ilmenau, Germany

Harry Agius, Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom

Dewan Tanvir Ahmed, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Salah Uddin Ahmed, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Marios Angelides, Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom

Lora Aroyo, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Shumeet Baluja, Google, Mountain View, CA, USA

Pieter Bellekens, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Oliver Bimber, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany

Leslie Bishko, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Canada

Alan Bovik, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA

Karlheinz Brandenburg, Fraunhofer Institute, Ilmenau, Germany

Pedro Sergio Branco, University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal

Anthony Brooks, Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark

Siwoo Byun, Anyang University, Anyang, Korea

Yiwei Cao, Technical University of Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Cristoforo Camerano, University of Catania, Italy

Petros Caravelas, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece

Matina Charami, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece

Michele Covell, Google, Mountain View, CA, USA

Christian Dittmar, Fraunhofer Institute, Ilmenau, Germany

Peter Dunker, Fraunhofer Institute, Ilmenau, Germany

Magy Seif El-Nasr, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

Stefano Ferretti, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Michael Fink, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Jenneke Fokker, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

Luigi Fortuna, University of Catania, Italy

Mattia Frasca, University of Catania, Italy

Yeung Siu Fung, The Chinese University of Hong

From the reviews:"This handbook is a good collection of the latest research papers on digital entertainment ... . The target audience includes post-graduates, research scholars, and teachers of computing, electronics, and electrical engineering, as well as programmers in the field of digital art and edutainment. A sound literature review and a helpful index are a plus." (Soubhik Chakraborty, ACM Computing Reviews, August, 2010)

From the reviews:"This handbook is a good collection of the latest research papers on digital entertainment ... . The target audience includes post-graduates, research scholars, and teachers of computing, electronics, and electrical engineering, as well as programmers in the field of digital art and edutainment. A sound literature review and a helpful index are a plus." (Soubhik Chakraborty, ACM Computing Reviews, August, 2010)