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With the growing ubiquity and portability of multimedia-enabled devices, Universal Multimedia Access (UMA) is emerging as one of the important applications for the next generation of multimedia systems. The basic concept of UMA is the adaptation, summarization, and personalization of multimedia content according to usage environment. The different dimensions for adaptation include rate and quality reduction, adaptive spatial and temporal sampling, and semantic summarization of the multimedia content. The different relevant dimensions of the user environment include device capabilities, bandwidth, user preferences, usage context, and spatial- and temporal-awareness.
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Given, N.A. (2003). Towards Semantic Universal Multimedia Access. In: GarcÃa, N., Salgado, L., MartÃnez, J.M. (eds) Visual Content Processing and Representation. VLBV 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2849. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39798-4_3
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