Flavor: a formal language for audio-visual object representation

  • Authors:
  • Alexandros Eleftheriadis;Danny Hong

  • Affiliations:
  • Columbia Unversity, New York, NY;Columbia Unversity, New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We present Flavor, a formal language for audio-visual object representation, that has been developed to describe any coded multimedia data in formats such as GIF, JPEG and MPEG. The language comes with a translator for generating C++/Java code from the Flavor description, and the generated code can include bitstream reading, writing and tracing methods. Since Version 5.0, the translator has been enhanced to also support XML. With the enhanced translator, the generated C++/Java code can include a method for producing XML documents that correspond to the bitstreams described by Flavor. The description can also be used to generate a corresponding XML schema. Additionally, a software tool for converting XML representation of multimedia data back into bitstream form is provided.