P. Hoepner, Reinhard Baier, Christian Gran, K. Hofrichter, A. Scheller
{"title":"PENGUIN: enabling and combining DAVIC and the WWW","authors":"P. Hoepner, Reinhard Baier, Christian Gran, K. Hofrichter, A. Scheller","doi":"10.1109/MMCS.1997.609801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMCS.1997.609801","url":null,"abstract":"In parallel to the widely known WWW with HTML and Java, ISO and ITU-T in conjunction with DAVIC have developed standards such as MHEG5 and DSM-CC that support interactive multimedia services-on-demand. Rather than arguing which development better suits the needs of the users, this article presents the Penguin architecture and corresponding implementation efforts supporting the co-existence and interworking between both environments. This includes native MHEG-5 clients and servers with HTML-MHEG gateways as well as WWW browsers using MHEG plug-ins or Java applets for the presentation of MHEG-5 objects.","PeriodicalId":302885,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123515304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A bandwidth management technique for hierarchical storage in large-scale multimedia servers","authors":"J. Wang, K. Hua","doi":"10.1109/MMCS.1997.609601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMCS.1997.609601","url":null,"abstract":"Using magnetic disks as a cache for tertiary storage has been shown to be an effective way to address the high storage coats of large-scale multimedia servers. The authors investigate a technique for managing the bandwidth of such a hierarchical storage design. In existing schemes, all data items are treated equally; and the same I/O rate is used to load data from tertiary storage when they are requested. In their approach, different loading rates are used for data items with different characteristics. For frequently used items, one keeps a large percentage of data in the disk buffer and needs to use only a small I/O rate to load the missing portions on demand. On the contrary, a larger portion of less frequently used items is kept in the tertiary storage. To minimize their access latencies, larger I/O rates are used to load the missing parts when these items are needed. They formally prove that this approach is better than using the same loading rate for all data items. They also show simulation results to quantitatively demonstrate the benefits of the technique. They confirm that the scheme is able to provide higher system throughput while ensuring very short latencies (i.e., several seconds) for essentially all accesses. Such good performance is achieved using surprisingly small disk space (i.e., about 5% or less of the database size).","PeriodicalId":302885,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114573273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shared media space coordination: mixed mode synchrony in collaborative multimedia environments","authors":"W. Robbins, N. Georganas","doi":"10.1109/MMCS.1997.609758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMCS.1997.609758","url":null,"abstract":"Multimedia systems are often divided into presentational and conversational domains: those which orchestrate prerecorded scenarios and those which provide audio/video teleconferencing. To be effective across a wide range of activities, however, collaborative multimedia systems must support the integration of presentational, conversational and interactive multimedia within a single shared media space. Such a virtual environment must not only support synthetic and real-time media but also their interactive manipulation as shared objects. Therefore, synchronizing media and the actions upon them in both a timely and causal manner are necessary to maintain a semantically coherent workspace. This paper discusses these issues and introduces a framework based on Virtual Enablers and Virtual Barriers designed to support the diverse range of synchronization requirements within collaborative multimedia systems. Its associated architecture is described and the model's application to the field of telelearning is illustrated.","PeriodicalId":302885,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121557563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A multimedia document filing system","authors":"Xien Fan, Qianhong Liu, P. Ng","doi":"10.1109/MMCS.1997.609761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMCS.1997.609761","url":null,"abstract":"This multimedia document filing system employs a dual modeling approach. The dual model consists of a document type hierarchy and a folder organization. Document type hierarchy is used to specify document types based on the analysis of layout, conceptual and content structures, and users define their own folder organization, which is used to store frame instances and the high level conceptual information of documents. A storage architecture is presented to integrate the document type hierarchy, the folder organization and the original document storage as a three level storage system, which in turn supports effective document searches. Document retrieval can be conceptual-based or content-based. Users are allowed to specify criteria for governing the document filing. An agent-based architecture for implementing the folder organization and the basic operations for constructing and reorganizing a folder organization are proposed.","PeriodicalId":302885,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115636192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Closed-loop MPEG video rendering","authors":"Bo Shen, I. Sethi, V. Bhaskaran","doi":"10.1109/MMCS.1997.609604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMCS.1997.609604","url":null,"abstract":"Closed-loop video rendering implies generating video streams in compressed form given as input video streams that are in compressed form such as JPEG or MPEG bit streams. Closed-loop video rendering has significant advantages over open-loop schemes including reduced storage requirements which in turn reduces memory disk swapping time that constitutes a large portion of the time spent in the desktop editing of massive video material. Processing in the compressed domain also offers faster processing speeds due to the smaller data size present in the compressed domain. This approach also improves image quality since multiple decompression and compression processes are avoided during the editing process. Based on MPEG, a standard video compression scheme, the authors discuss fundamental techniques, analyze pros and cons, implications and preferences for a compressed domain video rendering system. A software-based system for real-time video rendering is proposed with preliminary results demonstrating the feasibility of their closed-loop MPEG video rendering approach.","PeriodicalId":302885,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129703316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sunil Prabhakar, D. Agrawal, A. E. Abbadi, Ambuj K. Singh, Terence R. Smith
{"title":"Browsing and placement of multiresolution images on secondary storage","authors":"Sunil Prabhakar, D. Agrawal, A. E. Abbadi, Ambuj K. Singh, Terence R. Smith","doi":"10.1109/MMCS.1997.609793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMCS.1997.609793","url":null,"abstract":"Image decomposition techniques such as wavelets are used to provide multiresolution representations of images. The original image is represented by several coefficients, one of them with visual similarity to the original image, but at a lower resolution. Several strategies are evaluated to store the image coefficients on parallel disks so that thumbnail browsing as well as image reconstruction can be performed efficiently. Disk simulation and experiments with real disks are used to evaluate the performance of these strategies. The results indicate that significant performance improvements can be achieved with as few as four disks by placing image coefficients based upon browsing access patterns.","PeriodicalId":302885,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124155129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adaptive transform domain video scene analysis","authors":"D. Adjeroh, Moon-Chuen Lee","doi":"10.1109/MMCS.1997.609594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMCS.1997.609594","url":null,"abstract":"An adaptive mechanism for video sequence analysis in the transform domain is proposed. Methods for measuring motion complexity and activity levels in the scene are presented, based on which a video scene can be consistently categorised into identifiable classes. Further, the video quality, as measured by the mean square error or the signal to noise ratio is related to certain parameters used in video analysis. Adaptability in the analysis is realised by tailoring the parameters of the video analysis algorithm to the specific characteristics of the video scene, as embodied in the video scene class and the video quality. Preliminary experiments show the feasibility of the proposal, and the improved performance that can be achieved by adaptively tuning the analysis parameters to the characteristics of the particular scene under consideration.","PeriodicalId":302885,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128451991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Zhang, Wendy Chang, D. Murthy, T. Syeda-Mahmood
{"title":"Metadatabase and search agent for multimedia database access over Internet","authors":"A. Zhang, Wendy Chang, D. Murthy, T. Syeda-Mahmood","doi":"10.1109/MMCS.1997.609788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMCS.1997.609788","url":null,"abstract":"The authors investigate approaches to the creations of a metadatabase and a search agent in a metaserver which support global visual access to multimedia databases over Internet. The metadata for inclusion within the metadatabase is formulated on the basis of visual content of the images housed at each remote multimedia database. The search agent, located within the metaserver accesses the metadatabase and derives a ranking of database sites for the distribution of user queries. The proposed metadatabase and search agent are implemented in a Web-based multimedia information retrieval environment.","PeriodicalId":302885,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132578886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Minami, Akihito Akutsu, H. Hamada, Yoshinobu Tonomura
{"title":"Enhanced video handling based on audio analysis","authors":"K. Minami, Akihito Akutsu, H. Hamada, Yoshinobu Tonomura","doi":"10.1109/MMCS.1997.609596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMCS.1997.609596","url":null,"abstract":"Soundtracks of videos contain a rich source of content-based information. In this paper, we propose an audio-based approach to video indexing and handling. Audio data is analysed by means of frequency analysis, and music and voice are independently detected even if they occur together. The method is implemented on a system called Video in Time as an example of creating reasonable condensed versions of dramas or movies by excerpting meaningful video segments. Users can select the desired replaying time from several different levels, depending on how much time can be afforded for viewing. Detection rates for music and voice are evaluated and experiences with the system are mentioned.","PeriodicalId":302885,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133887906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multimedia presentation techniques for interactive plots","authors":"N. Sgouros, P. Tsanakas, G. Papakonstantinou","doi":"10.1109/MMCS.1997.609800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMCS.1997.609800","url":null,"abstract":"Interactive plots support the creation of engaging stories or games that are meaningfully interactive. The authors describe a novel multimedia presentation method for interactive plots that dynamically links story content with appropriate presentation styles. This method accepts at each point in time a set of interactions between the story or game characters. It then analyzes these interactions to identify interesting dramatic situations and enrich them with appropriate multimedia effects. These effects serve to increase suspense and emphasize plot developments during story delivery. They are using this method for the design and real-time direction of interactive entertainment systems.","PeriodicalId":302885,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115623589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}