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MM
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...
MM
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...
MM
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
MM
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
MM
1997
ACM
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BubbleUp: Low Latency Fast-Scan for Media Servers
Interactive multimediaapplicationsrequire fast response time. Traditional disk scheduling schemes can incur high latencies, and caching data in memory to reduce latency is usually...
Edward Y. Chang, Hector Garcia-Molina
MM
1997
ACM
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VideoQ: An Automated Content Based Video Search System Using Visual Cues
The rapidity with which digital information, particularly video is being generated, has necessitated the development of tools for efficient search of these digital media. Content...
Shih-Fu Chang, William Chen, Horace J. Meng, Hari ...
MM
1997
ACM
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Constraints for the Web
Constraints can be used to specify declaratively the desired layout of a web document. We present a system architecture in which both the author and the viewer can impose page lay...
Alan Borning, Richard Kuang-Hsu Lin, Kim Marriott
ICMCS
1997
IEEE
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An Objective Approach to Assessing Relative Perceptual Quality of MPEG-Encoded Video Sequences
A novel objective approach to assessing the relative perceptual quality of MPEG-encoded video sequences is presented. Quality comparison of the original and filtered MPEG-encoded ...
Lee Wang, Ranga S. Ramanujan, James A. Newhouse, M...
ICMCS
1997
IEEE
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Optimization of Adaptive Data-Flows for Competing Multimedia Presentational Database Sessions
Heiko Thimm, Wolfgang Klas, Crispin Cowan, Jonatha...
ICMCS
1997
IEEE
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Chaining: A Generalized Batching Technique for Video-On-Demand
Simon Sheu, Kien A. Hua, Wallapak Tavanapong