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ICMCS
1996
IEEE
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Providing VCR Functionality in a Constant Quality Video-On Demand Transportation Service
The use of bandwidth smoothing techniques for the delivery of prerecorded compressed video has been shown to be an effective technique in reducing the network bandwidth requiremen...
Wu-chi Feng, Farnam Jahanian, Stuart Sechrest
ICMCS
1996
IEEE
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A Probabilistic Multi-cycle Model for Serving Continuous Streams from Disks
Existing models for serving continuous streams from disks are generally based on worst-case deterministic head displacement times and on a round-robin strand service approach cons...
Freddy Deppner, Benoit A. Gennart, Roger D. Hersch
COST
1997
Springer
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An End to End Price-Based QoS Control Component Using Reflective Java
Jérôme Tassel, Bob Briscoe, Alan Smit...
COST
1997
Springer
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Resource Selection in Heterogeneous Communication Environments Using the Teleservice Descriptor
: Automated processes in distributed communication environments require tools for unifying heterogeneous multimedia services. The Teleservice Descriptor is introduced for generic h...
Tom Pfeifer, Stefan Arbanowski, Radu Popescu-Zelet...
MM
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
MM
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...
MM
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
MM
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...
MM
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, ...
MM
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...