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The KYDONIA multimedia information server

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Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques — ECMAST '97 (ECMAST 1997)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 1242))

Abstract

This paper describes the development of a multimedia information server that supports state-of-the-art distributed applications. This is achieved through techniques for efficient storage management of large objects, the provision of real-time data pumps controlled by scheduling mechanisms, multimedia object modelling and ODBMS functionality for the manipulation of objects. The system delivers MPEG-2 video and audio streams to multiple clients and supports browsing on the components of HTML documents and on MPEG-2 video sequences. The server functionality is exported as a proprietary application development interface in a sophisticated client subsystem. Current research focus is on content-based browsing and retrieval techniques as well as for the completion of the implementation of the DAVIC-compliant server functionality of the system.

The project has been financially supported by the ACTS-SICMA and HERMES-ESPRIT Long Term Research, European Community projects.

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  1. C. Tsinaraki

    Present address: MUSIC, P.O. Box 133, 73110, Chania, Crete, Greece

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  1. Multimedia Systems Institute of Crete, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania

    S. Christodoulakis, N. Pappas, G. Kyriakaki, Y. Maragoudakis, Y. Mavraganis & C. Tsinaraki

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Christodoulakis, S., Pappas, N., Kyriakaki, G., Maragoudakis, Y., Mavraganis, Y., Tsinaraki, C. (1997). The KYDONIA multimedia information server. In: Fdida, S., Morganti, M. (eds) Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques — ECMAST '97. ECMAST 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1242. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0037371

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