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Synchronization in Multimedia Documents

Helen Cameron, Peter King, Howard Bowman, and Simon Thompson

In Jacques Andre, editor, Electronic Publishing 98, pages 182-196. Springer, May 1998.

Abstract

This paper presents a taxonomy of possible synchronization relationships between pairs of items in multimedia documents. Several existing approaches to the synchronization of entire items are reviewed. We then discuss classes of synchronization based upon dynamic events or conditions occurring within media items and their internal structure. We present a taxonomy of seventy-two possible such relations, which are illustrated by numerous examples and which are formalized in the authors' temporal logic notation, Mexitl. The ideas are then applied to provide a description of the lip-synchronization problem.

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Bibtex Record

@inproceedings{476,
author = {Helen Cameron and Peter King and Howard Bowman and Simon Thompson},
title = {Synchronization in {M}ultimedia {D}ocuments},
month = {May},
year = {1998},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = {},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/1998/476},
    booktitle = {Electronic Publishing 98},
    editor = {Jacques Andre},
    publisher = {Springer},
    refereed = {yes},
}

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