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MediaBeads: An Architecture for Path-Enhanced Media Applications

Overview This paper introduces the concept of path-enhanced media, in which media is associated and stored together with a densely sampled path in time and space, and this paper presents the MediaBeads architecture for capturing, representing, browsing, editing, presenting, and searching this data. The architecture includes, among other things, novel data representations, new algorithms for automatically building movie- like presentations of trips, and novel search applications.

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Publisher	Hewlett-Packard	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	April 2004	Downloads	63
Format	White Papers
Topics	Multimedia, GPS - GIS

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