Title: Towards a Theory of Collaborative Multimedia
Authors: K.S. Candan, V.S. Subrahmanian V. Rangan.
Abstract
We develop a theory of media objects, and present optimal algorithms for collaborative object synthesis for constructing multimedia documents by composing together a given set of media objects. We then extend the algorithms to incorporate quality constraints (such as image size) as well as distribution across multiple nodes. The theoretical model is validated by an experimental implementation that supports the theoretical results.
Accepted for publication in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, Hiroshima, Japan, June 96. The postscript version of this paper is available.