Computed Synchronization for Multimedia Applications

✍ Scribed by Charles B. Owen, Fillia Makedon (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 232
• Series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science 513
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Multimedia is changing the design of database and information retrieval systems. The accumulation of audio, image, and video content is of little use in these systems if the content cannot be retrieved on demand, a critical requirement that has led to the development of new technologies for the analysis and indexing of media data. In turn, these technologies seek to derive information or features from a data type that can facilitate rapid retrieval, efficient compression, and logical presentation of the data. Significant work that has not been addressed, however, is the benefits of analyzing more than one data type simultaneously. Computed Synchronization for MultimediaApplications presents a new framework for the simultaneous analysis of multiple media data objects. The primary benefit of this analysis is computed synchronization, a temporal and spatial alignment of multiple media objects.
Computed Synchronization for Multimedia Applications also presents several specific applications and a general structure for the solution of computed synchronization problems. The applications demonstrate the use of this structure. Two applications in particular are described in detail: the alignment of text to speech audio, and the alignment of simultaneous English language translations of ancient texts. Many additional applications are discussed as future uses of the technology.
Computed Synchronization for Multimedia Applications is useful to researchers, students, and developers seeking to apply computed synchronization in many fields. It is also suitable as a reference for a graduate-level course in multimedia data retrieval.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Media, Multimedia, and Synchronization Models....Pages 13-38
Multiple Media Correlation....Pages 39-55
Algorithms for Multiple Media Correlation....Pages 57-92
Parallel Text Alignment....Pages 93-115
Text-to-Speech Alignment....Pages 117-147
The Xtrieve Cross-Modal Information Retrieval System....Pages 149-168
Applications and Future Work....Pages 169-178
Back Matter....Pages 179-226

✦ Subjects

Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory; Information Storage and Retrieval; Multimedia Information Systems