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Following the prediction of Krauss (1992), who claimed that as many as 95% of the world's estimated 6000 languages will be lost in this century, researchers have embarked on an effort to document, catalogue, revitalize and maintain moribund languages. Although much of this had already been done, in the last fifteen years the issue has gained international interest and has resulted in many reports in the popular press on the future of endangered languages. Using the UNESCO Framework Dr. Weisi has investigated the whys and causes of language endangerment among Kurdish Speakers in Iran....

This informative book presents the latest research on multimedia analysis, processing and communications. It provides a forum for experts to exchange experiences and insights, and it explores future directions in this important and rapidly evolving field.

The book encompasses the state-of-the-art visual quality assessment (VQA) and learning based visual quality assessment (LB-VQA) by providing a comprehensive overview of the existing relevant methods. It delivers the readers the basic knowledge, systematic overview and new development of VQA. It also encompasses the preliminary knowledge of Machine Learning (ML) to VQA tasks and newly developed ML techniques for the purpose. Hence, firstly, it is particularly helpful to the beginner-readers (including research students) to enter into VQA field in general and LB-VQA one in particular. Secondly,...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, held in Singapore during December 4-6, 2012. The 59 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 submissions for the main conference and are accompanied by 23 presentations of 4 special sessions. The papers are organized in topical sections on multimedia content analysis, image and video processing, video coding and multimedia information processing, image/video processing and analysis, video coding and multimedia system, advanced image and video coding, cross media learning...