Distributed Multimedia Database Technologies Supported by MPEG-7 and MPEG-21

Abbreviations, 243–246

Access units, 87

Acronyms, 243–246

AdaptationQoSType, 121

Adaptation scenario, end-to-end metadata-driven, 225

Adaptive audio coding (AAC), 1, 13, 16

Adaptive virtual video server, 224

Admission control, video server, 206

ADMITS project, 222, 224

ADSL, see Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

Advanced Multimedia Oriented Retrieval Engine (Amore), 163

Affine motion model, 134

AIFF, see Audio Interchange File Format

Algebraic video model, 146

AlphaWorks 90-Day Trial License Agreement, 94

Amore, see Advanced Multimedia Oriented Retrieval Engine

API, see Application program interface

Application

loader, 226

program interface (API), 218

AQUA algebra, 171

ARQ, see Automatic repeat request

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), 213

Atomar types, XML Schema, 34

Audio

CBR, 162

compression, MPEG-1, 11

fingerprints, 1

Interchange File Format (AIFF), 218

retrieval, simple descriptor for, 91

Video Interleaved (AVI), 17–18

voice extraction from, 222

AudioSegmentType, 89

AudioSignature, song, 29

Audiovisual (AV)

data, 25

indexing, 135

Authoring, 7, 59

Automatic repeat request (ARQ), 216

AV, see Audiovisual

Average picture, 5

AVI, see Audio Video Interleaved