The Electrical Engineering Handbook

5

Multimedia Systems and Signal Processing

John R. Smith,     IBM, T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York, USA

5.1. Introduction

5.1.1. MPEG-7/-21 and UMA

5.1.2. UMA Architecture

5.1.3. Outline

5.2. MPEG-7 UMA

5.2.1. MPEG-7 Transcoding Hints

5.2.2. MPEG-7 Variations

5.3. MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation

5.3.2. Digital Item Configuration

5.3.3. Media Resource Adaptation

5.4. Transcoding Optimization

5.4.1. Image Transcoding

5.4.2. Image Transcoding Examples

5.5. Multimedia Content Selection

5.5.1. Resource Selection

5.5.2. Variation Selection

5.5.3. Selection Optimization

5.5.4. Example Selection

5.6. Summary

References

5.1 Introduction

With the growing ubiquity and portability of multimediaenabled devices,