Abstract
Multimedia information comprises of different media streams such as text, images, audio, and video. The presentation of multimedia information to the user involves spatial organization, temporal organization, delivery of the components composing the multimedia objects, and allowing the user to interact with the presentation sequence. The presentation of multimedia information can be either live or orchestrated. In live presentation, multimedia objects are acquired in real-time from devices such as video camera and microphone. In orchestrated presentation, the multimedia objects are typically acquired from stored databases. The presentation of objects in the various media streams have to be ordered in time. Multimedia synchronization refers to the task of coordinating this ordering of presentation of various objects in the time domain. In a live multimedia presentation, the ordering of objects in the time domain are implied and are dynamically formulated. In an orchestrated presentation, this ordering is explicitly formulated and stored along with the multimedia objects.
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Prabhakaran, B. (1996). Multimedia Synchronization. In: Furht, B. (eds) Multimedia Systems and Techniques. The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 350. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1341-0_6
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