Special issue on UIT (Ubiquitous Information Technology) for multimedia systems

Abstract

Ubiquitous Information Technology (UIT) has rapidly emerged as a new computing paradigm and it covers the topics of seamless, secure, visible, and intuitive access to provide computing and communication services at anytime and anywhere. There are many issues to stably provide UIT services and much effort and enormous attention have been focused on the UIT environments. The UIT research area poses challenges such as context information, security, reliability, autonomous and intelligent networking, digital and multimedia systems, and so on. The UIT offers an unprecedented opportunity for various modern multimedia applications and systems under convergence of multimedia technology and multimedia visualization. Its main purpose is to solve the various problems of advanced digital and multimedia processing using the convergence of state-of-the-art computer science technology. In UIT environments, the most important goal is to provide users more realistic and richer ubiquitous services with ultra-modern multimedia technology. In a word, we should try to guarantee and provide trustworthy and constant visual services in anyplace. Most of all, ubiquitous applications and services can be limited by data transmission, view area, and computing power. Therefore, much more attention and effort should be focused on the ubiquitous applications and services in visualization and multimedia environments. For these reasons, the proposed special issue intends to give an overview of the state-of-the-art of issues and guidelines for multimedia systems under the ubiquitous environment requiring wireless communication. In addition, it will provide completing the panorama of current research effort, which is widely inherent to topics of high interest for the computer graphics and multimedia readers. This special issue includes three excellent papers from the selected papers of 2010 International Conference onUbiquitous Information Technologies and Applications (CUTE 2010) and from the regular submissions of other excellent researchers related to this special issue topic. The selected papers of CUTE 2010 which were presented on December 16–18, 2010 in Sanya, China are revised and extended from the original version of conference papers. To contain Multimed Tools Appl DOI 10.1007/s11042-013-1431-y