Special issue on advanced intelligent multimedia applications for next generation environments

摘要

Next generation (NG) environments have recently raised relevant interests in both the academic and industrial research communities as one of the most promising application fields for intelligent computing services. In fact, the NG application domain poses unique challenges such as various services to enable working from home, remote education, remote diagnosis, virtual shopping, network gaming, and portal & high quality VOD with no limitations on space and lime, and so on. Specially, advanced intelligent multimedia applications for NG have been coming as a new paradigm. This special issue aims to address the advanced intelligent multimedia applications for NG.