A remote presentation agent for multimedia databases

Author

Rody, J.A. ; Karmouch, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ottawa Univ., Ont., Canada

fYear

1995

fDate

15-18 May 1995

Firstpage

223

Lastpage

230

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1995., Proceedings of the International Conference on

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7105-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1995.484927

Filename

484927