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Media Delivery UC ELIS – Multimedia Lab Photobook UC Erik Mannens ELIS – Multimedia Lab Generic Use Case • A series of photos and/or regions-of-interest within that series of photos (of a particular journey, for instance) can be linked together temporally or certain regions-of- interest of a series of photos can be linked together spatially. <Photobook UC> <Erik Mannens> 2/9 <TPAC 2008 – 20.10.2008> ELIS – Multimedia Lab Specific UC 1 - Temporally • Temporally this means that an application would be a slide show made up of image fragments from different servers - a kind of image playlist of fragment URIs. MF 3 MF 2 Playlist over time MF 1 • There may be an issue with size. <Photobook UC> <Erik Mannens> 3/9 <TPAC 2008 – 20.10.2008> ELIS – Multimedia Lab Specific UC 2 - Spatially • Spatially this means that an application would be the creation of a "stitched" image from images where regions are brought together from different servers. “Stitched” Image Media Fragment 1 Media Fragment 2 • There may be an issue with smoothing and/or positioning. <Photobook UC> <Erik Mannens> 4/9 <TPAC 2008 – 20.10.2008> ELIS – Multimedia Lab Existing technologies (1/4) • RSS & Atom Web Content Syndication Formats – Windows Live Gallery: Flickr RSS Slideshow gadget created by the Windows Live Spaces team – takeslides.com uses the Google AJAX Feeds API and GFslideShow to create a simple slide show gadget of your favorite media RSS/Atom feed. You can take your gallery from Picasa, Flickr or Photobucket to your web page, igoogle or iphone <Photobook UC> <Erik Mannens> 5/9 <TPAC 2008 – 20.10.2008> ELIS – Multimedia Lab Existing technologies (2/4) • W3C’s SMIL – XML-based markup language that allows you to control the layout of your multimedia presentation (what and where the media objects are) as well as its synchronization and temporal relationship – Using <seq> & <par> tags – Using “begin” & “dur” attributes – SMIL Player needed <Photobook UC> <Erik Mannens> 6/9 <TPAC 2008 – 20.10.2008> ELIS – Multimedia Lab Existing technologies (3/4) • MPEG-21 Part 17: Fragment Identification of MPEG Resources • MPEG-21 Part 2: Digital Item Declaration (DID) • MPEG-21 Part 10: Digital Item Processing (DIP) – client-side processing … pseudo playlist • MPEG-A – MAF’s (Media Application Format) guidance by offering combinations of various MPEG technologies to address specific application scenarios – Photo Player MAF • MPEG-4, MPEG-7, MPEG-21 <Photobook UC> <Erik Mannens> 7/9 <TPAC 2008 – 20.10.2008> ELIS – Multimedia Lab Existing technologies (4/4) • XSPF (“spiff”): XML Shareable Playlist Format – Xiph community (Ogg, Vorbis, Flac, Theora) – Multimedia (but primarily focused on audio) – Using <playlist>, <trackList>, <track> & <location> <Photobook UC> <Erik Mannens> 8/9 <TPAC 2008 – 20.10.2008> ELIS – Multimedia Lab Discussion • Other Specific Uses Cases around? • Other Technologies around? • Issues forgotten? <Photobook UC> <Erik Mannens> 9/9 <TPAC 2008 – 20.10.2008>.
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