Digital home applications

Abstract

The development of the digital home technology is a trend of information technology penetration and fusion in life. Numerous digital media equipments and contents have been applied into life at home. The growth of media contents and broadband-width stimulates the problems of producing, editing, transmitting, and displaying of media contents. It brings enormous opportunities as well as challenges for researchers and application developers. With the theme of “Digital Home, Smart Life”, we present the technological advances and research results in the fields of digital application in daily life. The research topics are about digital simulation modeling, video tracking, image processing, personal interactive and digital media equipments development. The research results are important in the theory foundation and have great applications in the world. This issue consists of twelve papers, which are briefly discussed as follows. Ruomei Wang et al. in their article “An Adaptive Neural Fuzzy Network Clothing Comfort Evaluation Model and Application in Digital Home” presented a theoretical clothing comfort evaluation model based on the adaptive fuzzy neural network (FNN). Li Liu et al. in their article “Mesh-based Anisotropic Cloth Deformation for Virtual Fitting” proposed a novel dynamic cloth simulation method via geometric deformation energy model that preserves geometric features well to achieve cloth behaviors with various material effects. Hao Jiang et al. in their article “3D Video Components Generation Using Object Tracking Technique” proposed a computer interactive conversion method to capture components which is used to generate 3D sequences. A 2D-to-3D system can generate 3D sequence interactively. Xing Huo et al. in their article “An Automatic Video Scratch Removal Based on Thiele Type Continued Fraction” presented an automatic scratch detection method as well as a novel scratch removal approach. Multimed Tools Appl (2014) 71:391–394 DOI 10.1007/s11042-013-1781-5