Comparing techniques for storage and real time retrieval of variable bit rate video data for
multiple simultaneous users, we conclude that constant time length and hybrid techniques …

Technology has spurred the growth of huge image and video libraries, many growing into
the hundreds of terabytes. As a result there is a great demand among organizations for the …

Kea is a new operating system kernel which has been designed for maximum flexibility and
performance in the areas of kernel and application extensibility and dynamic …

We present the design and implementation of NetMedia, a middleware that supports client-
server distributed multimedia applications. In NetMedia, individual clients may access …

Advances in multimedia computing technologies offer new approaches to support on-line
accesses to information from a variety of sources such as video clips, audio, images, and …

This work consists of three main parts. In the first part, we consider various aspects of video
compression. We exploit motion in real video sequences within the context of subband …

Multimedia information systems pose significantly different data management requirements
than traditional database applications. Some of the multimedia data management issues …

We present a novel technique, called 2-Phase Service Model, for streaming videos to home
users in a limited-bandwidth environment. This scheme first delivers some number of non …

Advances in multimedia computing technologies offer new approaches to support on-line
accesses to information from a variety of sources such as video clips, audio, images, and …

The difficulty of providing video on demand (VOD) with a guaranteed quality of service is
primarily due to the variation in access latencies over the delivery path, from storage …