A Distributed Multimedia Authoring Tool over Object-Oriented Database

• Main Authors: Man, Nan-Kan, 馬南康
• Other Authors: Shu-Yin Lee
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1998
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47705895756870793509

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 資訊工程學系 === 86 === In the eighteenth century, missionaries used the quill to transcribe the Bibleand disseminated the knowledge to the world. With the advancement of technology,broadcasting using writing and text cannot satisfy people's need. Voice, imageand video have become the bow and arrow in the knowledge-communication world. In the knowledge-overflow century, to transmit desired media is not the onlyone important thing; how to integrate the media to present your thinking isanother one. The first step is to retrieve the media from thousands. Then youmust identify the temporal and spatial relation between retrieved media. Basedon the two goals, a powerful tool can help an author accomplish the task ofmultimedia editing. In this thesis, we construct an interactive visual authoring tool system. Thissystem provides an easy way for authors to retrieve media and to identify therelation between media. We can browse the media classes through the inheritancehierarchy, or browse the media objects through the aggregation relation inretrieving mode. We can also query the media by example in a tree view mode. Inauthoring mode, we provide an event driven model to describe the temporalrelation, and a way to describe the spatial relation. We call an integratedmedium object a complex media. We store each object including single medium andcomplex media in an Object- Oriented Multimedia Database. Through the network, wecan get the media from remote OODB servers. This authoring tool can be appliedto many multimedia applications including electronic shopping and dis