Bringing Flexibility to the Specification and Coordination of Temporal Dependencies among Multimedia Components
A. L. V. Coelho, A. B. Raposo and I. L. M. Ricarte
SBMIDIA 2001 - VII Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and Hypermedia Systems.
Florianópolis, SC. October 2001.
Abstract
We introduce a methodology for the high-level specification and
decentralized coordination of temporal interdependencies among multimedia
document objects. Such methodology encompasses a three-step process
comprising (i) the design of multimedia presentation scenes by means of a
fuzzy descriptive plan; (ii) the parsing of such layout to classify the multimedia
entities that compose the scenes and to check the consistency of temporal
relationships among them; and (iii) the generation of event-driven time and
action managers as distributed mechanisms for the orchestration of the
elements presentation. This approach centers around a novel multimedia
synchronization model based on fuzzy sets and software components concepts.
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