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...
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
: 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...