Firming Research Culture and Practices in Science & Technology

Over 100 researchers and academic members from all faculties in MMU participated in a one-day workshop on journal writing & publication for science and technology on 15 March 2017 at Cyberjaya campus and on 16 March 2017 at Melaka campus. It was co-organised by MMU Library and Research Management Centre (RMC) with the support of IEEE ComSoc/VTS Malaysia, IEEE Young Professional Malaysia & United Technology Sdn. Bhd. (IEEE Representative in Malaysia). The workshop was graced by the then Vice President (R&D), Prof. Dr. Heng Swee Huay at Melaka and the Chief Librarian, Kamal Sujak in Cyberjaya. Edward Kennedy from Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tan Ai Hui from FOE, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. You Ah Heng from FET as the featured speakers, inspired the participants to prepare manuscripts and get them published in journals or conferences. They also shared a lot of useful tips and hints during the workshop. With the strong partnership between MMU Library, departments & societies, the organiser expected to have more authorship workshops will be organised to catalyse research culture among the innovative MMU community. The targeted increase in the utilisation of library resources is essential to boost MMU, going forward “to be a Top 100 University in Asia with Global Recognition by 2020”

Tan Sri Zam shared his insight at MMU's Executive Talk

On 4 August 2016, YBhg. Tan Sri Dato' Sri Zamzamzairani Mohd Isa, the Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer of Telekom Malaysia shared his insight in the Executive Talk GCEO on the topic of 'Strategic Communication' at Multimedia University (MMU). The talk was attended by more than 50 students of Foundation In English (FIE), Bachelor of Strategic Communication (B.Comm) as well as Faculty of Management (FOM). Also present, Prof. Ahmad Ra Mohamed Eshaq, the President of MMU and Associate Professor Dr. Madhubala Bava Harji, the Dean of Learning Institute for Empowerment (LiFE). In the two hours eye-opening speech, he shared the broad spectrum of strategic communications particularly in the global, national and TM's point of view. The audience learnt how TM manage to face the challenges of executing the vision to be the Convergence Champion and Go Digital programme which in line with Life Made Easier slogan through the effective internal and external communications

MMU Shares Expertise In Setting Up the UniSZA Digital Hub

Our university was invited to share its expertise with Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA) in a collaboration to set up the UniSZa Digital Hub, which was launched on 8th March 2017 at Besut, Terengganu. The ceremony was graced by Dato’ Seri Idris Jusoh, the Minister of Higher Education and attended by Prof. Datuk Dr. Ahmad Rafi Mohamed Eshaq, the President of MMU and Prof. Dato' Dr. Ahmad Zubaidi Abdul Latif, the Vice Chancellor of UniSZa. At the ceremony, the minister applauded the collaboration which will focusing on the digital technology domain to create and catalyse opportunities for Research and Innovation of higher learning sector in Malaysia

Post processing of multimedia information - concepts, problems, and techniques

Currently, most research work on multimedia information processing is focused on multimedia information storage and retrieval, especially indexing and content-based access of multimedia information. We consider multimedia information processing should include one more level-post-processing. Here &quot;post-processing&quot; means further processing of retrieved multimedia information, which includes fusion of multimedia information and reasoning with multimedia information to reach new conclusions. In this paper, the three levels of multimedia information processing storage, retrieval, and post-processing- are discussed. The concepts and problems of multimedia information post-processing are identified. Potential techniques that can be used in post-processing are suggested, By highlighting the problems in multimedia information post-processing, hopefully this paper will stimulate further research on this important but ignored topic.<br /

Towards robust and reliable multimedia analysis through semantic integration of services

Thanks to ubiquitous Web connectivity and portable multimedia devices, it has never been so easy to produce and distribute new multimedia resources such as videos, photos, and audio. This ever-increasing production leads to an information overload for consumers, which calls for efficient multimedia retrieval techniques. Multimedia resources can be efficiently retrieved using their metadata, but the multimedia analysis methods that can automatically generate this metadata are currently not reliable enough for highly diverse multimedia content. A reliable and automatic method for analyzing general multimedia content is needed. We introduce a domain-agnostic framework that annotates multimedia resources using currently available multimedia analysis methods. By using a three-step reasoning cycle, this framework can assess and improve the quality of multimedia analysis results, by consecutively (1) combining analysis results effectively, (2) predicting which results might need improvement, and (3) invoking compatible analysis methods to retrieve new results. By using semantic descriptions for the Web services that wrap the multimedia analysis methods, compatible services can be automatically selected. By using additional semantic reasoning on these semantic descriptions, the different services can be repurposed across different use cases. We evaluated this problem-agnostic framework in the context of video face detection, and showed that it is capable of providing the best analysis results regardless of the input video. The proposed methodology can serve as a basis to build a generic multimedia annotation platform, which returns reliable results for diverse multimedia analysis problems. This allows for better metadata generation, and improves the efficient retrieval of multimedia resources

A Novel Approach to Multimedia Ontology Engineering for Automated Reasoning over Audiovisual LOD Datasets

Multimedia reasoning, which is suitable for, among others, multimedia content analysis and high-level video scene interpretation, relies on the formal and comprehensive conceptualization of the represented knowledge domain. However, most multimedia ontologies are not exhaustive in terms of role definitions, and do not incorporate complex role inclusions and role interdependencies. In fact, most multimedia ontologies do not have a role box at all, and implement only a basic subset of the available logical constructors. Consequently, their application in multimedia reasoning is limited. To address the above issues, VidOnt, the very first multimedia ontology with SROIQ(D) expressivity and a DL-safe ruleset has been introduced for next-generation multimedia reasoning. In contrast to the common practice, the formal grounding has been set in one of the most expressive description logics, and the ontology validated with industry-leading reasoners, namely HermiT and FaCT++. This paper also presents best practices for developing multimedia ontologies, based on my ontology engineering approach

Multimedia Chinese Web Search Engines: A Survey

The objective of this paper is to explore the state of multimedia search functionality on major general and dedicated Web search engines in Chinese language. The authors studied: a) how many Chinese Web search engines presently make use of multimedia searching, and b) the type of multimedia search functionality available. Specifically, the following were examined: a) multimedia features - features allowing multimedia search; and b) extent of personalization - the extent to which a search engine Web site allows users to control multimedia search. Overall, Chinese Web search engines offer limited multimedia searching functionality. The significance of the study is based on two factors: a) little research has been conducted on Chinese Web search engines, and b) the instrument used in the study and the results obtained by this research could help users, Web designers, and Web search engine developers. By large, general Web search engines support more multimedia features than specialized one

Stars in their eyes: What eye-tracking reveal about multimedia perceptual quality

Perceptual multimedia quality is of paramount importance to the continued take-up and proliferation of multimedia applications: users will not use and pay for applications if they are perceived to be of low quality. Whilst traditionally distributed multimedia quality has been characterised by Quality of Service (QoS) parameters, these neglect the user perspective of the issue of quality. In order to redress this shortcoming, we characterise the user multimedia perspective using the Quality of Perception (QoP) metric, which encompasses not only a user’s satisfaction with the quality of a multimedia presentation, but also his/her ability to analyse, synthesise and assimilate informational content of multimedia. In recognition of the fact that monitoring eye movements offers insights into visual perception, as well as the associated attention mechanisms and cognitive processes, this paper reports on the results of a study investigating the impact of differing multimedia presentation frame rates on user QoP and eye path data. Our results show that provision of higher frame rates, usually assumed to provide better multimedia presentation quality, do not significantly impact upon the median coordinate value of eye path data. Moreover, higher frame rates do not significantly increase level of participant information assimilation, although they do significantly improve overall user enjoyment and quality perception of the multimedia content being shown