Towards the Construction of the Multimedia Mediation Mechanism [chapter]

Masao Sakauchi
1999 Database Semantics  
Multimedia Information Environments based on video are now growing rapidly. Especially three types of environments, i.e. "Stream type Multimedia Environment" by digital TV broadcasting, "Real-world type Multimedia Environment" monitoring roads and towns, and "Network type Multimedia Environment" on the WWW are especially promising targets. In this paper, a new framework for developing applications and services from these three Multimedia Environments named by "the Multimedia Mediation
more » ... , is proposed and discussed. In the Stream type Multimedia Mediation System, basic functions including video stream description, data retrieval, data integration, event discovery and data creation are designed. New interactive video services, personal media services are developed on the network as application. In the Real-world type Multimedia Mediation System, basic functions including construction of mediation map, locating functions, object recognition and event discovery are designed. Several applications for ITS (Intelligent Transport System) etc. are also developed. In the Network type Multimedia Mediation System, various advanced search engines are developed.
doi:10.1007/978-0-387-35561-0_2 fatcat:wddwggotr5gwzc6o4b65c6yxci