Is That a Fish in Your Ear? A Universal Metalanguage for Multimedia

  • Authors:
  • Joseph A. I. Thomas-Kerr;Ian S. Burnett;Christian H. Ritz;Davy De Schrijver;Rik Van de Walle;Sylvain Devillers

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Wollongong, Australia;University of Wollongong, Australia;University of Wollongong, Australia;Ghent University-IBBT, Belgium;Ghent University-IBBT, Belgium;France Telecom

  • Venue:
  • IEEE MultiMedia
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Universal Multimedia Access promises to adaptively deliver multimedia content to users according to their needs?whether it's their device, context, or preferences. Central to UMA is the development of metadata standards for describing multimedia resources to allow their adaptation. In this article, the authors report on the development of the Bitstream Syntax Description Language (BSDL) and describe applications for scalable content adaptation, format independent streaming, and delivery and configurable media coding.