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Multimedia synchronization involving independent sources is a challenging issue imposed by the distributed multimedia applications. In our work, this issue is studied by investigating the teleorchestra application (remote multimedia presentation). In teleorchestration, among the data objects to be presented, relative and uncertain temporal requirements may be involved. “Fuzzy” presentation scenarios are thus generated. In this paper, we describe a temporal model that can handle these “fuzzy” scenarios that contain imprecise synchronization constraints, such as unknown object presentation durations and relative event occurring times. The model supports a distributed synchronization algorithm that can schedule the independent sources for the multimedia teleorchestration.
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Li, L., Karmouch, A. & Georganas, N.D. Multimedia teleorchestra with independent sources: Part 1 — temporal modeling of collaborative multimedia scenarios. Multimedia Systems 1, 143–153 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01213073
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