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Structured Media for Authoring Multimedia Documents

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Overview This paper proposes a new way for authoring multimedia documents. It uses the concept of structured media that allows to deeper access into media objects. An experiment of structuring video in the authoring and presentation environment for multimedia documents is described. It allows the author to interactively specify various audiovisual structures. A video description and structuration model is used for the composition of video elements (character, shot, scene, etc.) with other media objects (text, sound, image, etc). Such a composition allows to easily realize attractive multimedia presentations where media stuffs can be synchronized in rich and various ways (spatio-temporal synchronization, temporal links, etc.).

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Publisher	French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Authoring Systems, Multimedia

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