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1997
ACM
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Continuous Display Using Heterogeneous Disk-Subsystems
A number of recent technological trends have made data intensive applications such as continuous media (audio and video) servers a reality. These servers store and retrieve a larg...
Roger Zimmermann, Shahram Ghandeharizadeh
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1997
ACM
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Motion and Feature-Based Video Metamorphosis
We present a new technique for morphing two video sequences. Our approach extends still image metamorphosis techniques to video by performing motion tracking on the objects. Besid...
Robert Szewczyk, Andras Ferencz, Henry Andrews, Br...
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1997
ACM
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What Should a Wildebeest Say? Interactive Nature Films for High School Classrooms
Nature documentaries play an important role in high school biology classrooms, yet they deliver a passive and biased account of the behavior of organisms. To engage students in mo...
Brian K. Smith, Brian J. Reiser
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1997
ACM
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A Framework for Generating Adaptable Hypermedia Documents
Being able to author a hypermedia document once for presentation under a wide variety of potential circumstances requires that it be stored in a manner that is adaptable to these ...
Lloyd Rutledge, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Lynda Hard...
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1997
ACM
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An Object-Oriented SGML/HyTime Compliant Multimedia Database Management System
We describe the design of an object-oriented multimedia database management system that can store and manage SGML/HyTime compliant multimedia documents. The system is capable of s...
M. Tamer Özsu, Paul Iglinski, Duane Szafron, ...
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1997
ACM
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Supporting Similarity Queries in MARS
To address the emerging needs of applications that require access to and retrieval of multimediaobjects, we are developing the Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System (MARS) in o...
Michael Ortega, Yong Rui, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Sha...
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1997
ACM
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An Evaluation of VBR Disk Admission Algorithms for Continuous Media File Servers
In this paper, we address the problem of choosing a disk admission algorithm for continuous media streams where each stream may have a di erent bit rate, and more importantly, whe...
Dwight J. Makaroff, Gerald W. Neufeld, Norman C. H...
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1997
ACM
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A Failure and Overload Tolerance Mechanism for Continuous Media Servers
–Large scale clustered continuous media (CM) servers deployed in applications like video-on-demand have high availability requirements. In the event of server failure, streams fr...
Rajesh Krishnan, Dinesh Venkatesh, Thomas D. C. Li...
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1997
ACM
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Flavor: A Language for Media Representation
We present the design and implementation of a new programming language for media-intensive applications called Flavor (Formal Language for Audio-Visual Object Representation). It ...
Alexandros Eleftheriadis
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1997
ACM
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A Visual Approach to Multimedia Querying and Presentation
Multimedia data has become readily available from a variety of resources, such as the Web, to users (ranging from naive to sophisticated) who need to select and to present the dat...
Isabel F. Cruz, Wendy T. Lucas