Elsevier

Computers & Graphics

Volume 21, Issue 3, May–June 1997, Pages 315-320
Computers & Graphics

Temporal relations in multimedia systems

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0097-8493(97)00008-3Get rights and content

Abstract

Assuring the correct temporal presentation of multimedia objects is called multimedia synchronization. How to specify the temporal relations in multimedia objects is one of the main issues in the research of multimedia synchronization. This paper examines how many and which temporal relations are theoretically possible, and systematically develops a complete set of relevant temporal relations in multimedia systems. On the basis of it, an interval-based generalized synchronization model is presented, which can be used to specify all temporal relations in multimedia systems.

References (38)

  • J.L. Peterson
  • J.E. Coolahan et al.

    Timing requirements for time-driven systems using augmented Petri nets

    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

    (1983)
  • J.F. Allen

    Maintaining knowledge about temporal intervals

    Communications of the ACM

    (1983)
  • T.D.C. Little et al.

    Multimedia synchronization protocols for integrated services

    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

    (1991)
  • T.D.C. Little et al.

    Spatio-temporal composition of distributed multimedia objects for value-added networks

    IEEE Computer

    (1991)
  • T.D.C. Little et al.

    Network considerations for distributed multimedia object composition and communication

    IEEE Network

    (1990)
  • T.D.C. Little et al.

    Interval-based conceptual models for time-dependent multimedia data

    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

    (1993)
  • N. Qazi et al.

    A synchronization and communication model for distributed multimedia objects

  • M. Woo et al.

    A synchronization framework for communication of pre-orchestrated multimedia information

    IEEE Network

    (1994)

    • Cited by (3)

    View full text
    Copyright © 1997 Published by Elsevier Ltd.