MING-I: a distributed interactive multimedia document development mechanism |
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Authors: | Chung-Ming Huang Jyh-Shiou Chen Chih-Hao Lin Chian Wang |
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Affiliation: | (1) Laboratory of Multimedia Networking (LMN), Institute of Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C. , TW |
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Abstract: | The next generation of interactive multimedia documents can contain both static media, e.g., text, graph, image, and continuous
media, e.g., audio and video, and can provide user interactions in distributed environments. However, the temporal information
of multimedia documents cannot be described using traditional document structures, e.g., Open Document Architecture (ODA)
and Standard Generalized Mark-up Language (SGML); the continuous transmission of media units also raises some new synchronization
problems, which have not been met before, for processing user interactions. Thus, developing a distributed interactive multimedia
document system should resolve the issues of document model, presentation control architecture, and control scheme. In this
paper, we (i) propose a new multimedia document model that contains the logical structure, the layout structure, and the temporal
structure to formally describe multimedia documents, and (ii) point out main interaction-based synchronization problems, and
propose a control architecture and a token-based control scheme to solve these interaction-based synchronization problems.
Based on the proposed document model, control architecture, and control scheme, a distributed interactive multimedia document
development mechanism, which is called MING-I, is developed on SUN workstations. |
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Keywords: | :Distributed multimedia systems – Multimedia synchronization – Multimedia documents – User interactions – Authoring and Presentation |
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