Title :
A remote presentation agent for multimedia databases
Author :
Rody, J.A. ; Karmouch, A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ottawa Univ., Ont., Canada
Abstract :
The successful realization of distributed multimedia information systems depend on the ability to overcome the synchronization problems involved in the end-to-end presentation of multimedia information. In this paper we discuss multimedia synchronization at the source, network and user-interface levels of the distributed multimedia information systems. In order to resolve the synchronization problem we make use of a progressive retrieval strategy which sequentially retrieves independent synchronized entities from a multimedia document. This paper also presents an architecture for a multimedia presentation agent which synchronizes the multimedia document for playback. This multimedia presentation agent is designed to be an interactive server to a user-interface client
Keywords :
audio-visual systems; distributed databases; multimedia communication; multimedia computing; software agents; distributed multimedia information systems; end-to-end presentation; independent synchronized entities; interactive server; multimedia databases; multimedia information; multimedia presentation agent; multimedia synchronization; progressive retrieval strategy; remote presentation agent; synchronization problems; user-interface; user-interface client; Communication industry; Graphics; Information systems; Multimedia communication; Multimedia databases; Multimedia systems; Nonhomogeneous media; Real time systems; Streaming media; Timing;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1995., Proceedings of the International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7105-X
DOI :
10.1109/MMCS.1995.484927
