Media construction patterns: abstraction and reuse in multimedia application specifications

Jocelyne Nanard; Marc Nanard; Peter King

doi:10.1117/12.410903

22 December 2000 Media construction patterns: abstraction and reuse in multimedia application specifications

Jocelyne Nanard, Marc Nanard, Peter King

Proceedings Volume 4312, Multimedia Computing and Networking 2001; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.410903
Event: Photonics West 2001 - Electronic Imaging, 2001, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Constructs to assist in the design of multimedia documents are different in nature from constructs for document descriptions to be processed by multimedia systems. In this article we introduce the media construction pattern (MCP), a new formalism supporting abstraction and re-use at the artifact design level. MCP relies on a temporal model similar to that of SMIL Boston, but targets design issues. The main characteristics of MCP are: (1) its ability to support an arbitrary level of abstraction, (2) its ability to describe generic behavior, using the notions of roles, players and actors, (3) it use of evolution laws to provide an integrated specification of spatial, temporal, and individual behavior, (4) the specification of computable compositions which may depend on run time events, (5) an author-friendly graphical representation. We present a set of criteria for the expressive power of constructs supporting multimedia design, and we discus how MCP satisfies these criteria.

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Jocelyne Nanard, Marc Nanard, and Peter King "Media construction patterns: abstraction and reuse in multimedia application specifications", Proc. SPIE 4312, Multimedia Computing and Networking 2001, (22 December 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.410903

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