Towards a Theory of Collaborative Multimedia

We develop a theory of media objects, and present optimal algorithms for collaborative synthesis of media objects. We then extend the algorithms to incorporate quality constraints (such as image size) as well as distribution across multiple nodes. The ...

When a group {I1, ..., In} of individuals wishes to collaboratively construct a complex multimedia document, the first requirement is that they be able to manipulate media-objects created by one another. For instance, if individual Ij wishes to access ...

Distributed multimedia documents systems, distributed video servers are examples of multimedia presentations involving collaboration among multiple information sources. In such applications, objects have to be retrieved from their sources and presented to ...