This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, held in Bangkok, Thailand during December 15-18, 2009. The papers presented in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 171 submissions. The topics covered are exploring large-scale videos: automatic content genre classification, repair, enhancement and authentication, human behavior classification and recognition, image and video coding perceptual quality improvement, image annotation, retrieval, and classification, object detection and tracking, networking technologies, audio processing, 3DTV and mulit-view video, image watermarking, multimedia document search and retrieval, intelligent multimedia security and forensics, multimedia content management, image analysis and matching, coding, advanced image processing techniques, multimedia compressioin and optimization, multimedia security rights and management.
- Anything NASCAR is hot, hot, hot!\n- Solid information with up-to-the-minute graphic appeal.\n- Series features include photos, diagrams, glossary, and resources.\nCurriculum Standards: \nGrades 5-8 Standards for Social Studies\nIndividual Development & Identity\n- Explore factors that contribute to one's personal identity like interests and abilities.\n- Analyze a particular event to identify reasons individuals might respond to it in different ways.\n- Work independently and cooperatively to accomplish goals.\nIndividuals, Groups, & Institutions\n- Identify examples of institutions and describe the interactions of people with institutions.\n- Give examples of the role of institutions in furthering continuity and change.\nProduction, Distribution, & Consumption\n- Distinguish between needs and wants.\n- Describe the influence of incentives, values, traditions, and habits on economic decisions.\n- Explain/demonstrate the role of money in everyday life.
A one-man-show in which Fennario recounts the phenomenon of taking his bilingual play, "Balconville," to Belfast. Cast of 1 man.