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Standardization is concerned with interfaces; industry is concerned with systems. This papers brings the evidence brought by the MPEG standardization group to show how, through the proper management of interface evolution, the constituent industries have been able to achieve product and service interoperability, room for differentiation, and opportunities for innovation in the context of the tectonics shift also known as convergence.
Modern Trends of Data Stream Generation of Audio-Video Content
Digital methods of coding in multimedia standards are considered. It's compared procedure of packaging of audio content. In article present the features of new multimedia standard MPEG 7 as well as MPEG 21.
Read more14Small-group psychotherapy with patients on a short-stay ward: an opportunity for innovation.
The principles of small-group psychotherapy have been developed largely from experience with groups of outpatients and long-term inpatients. Group therapy in short-stay settings is distinguished by a number of features--chiefly the transience of group membership--that make the application of the standard principles of group therapy problematic. The author suggests that these difficulties can be viewed as an opportunity for adapting group therapy to better serve the needs of short-stay patients. Therapists can allow groups to serve a variety of functions--administrative and humanitarian as well as the primary treatment function--while being specific about the goal or goals of each group. Therapists should be flexible about group format, keeping group membership open, departing from the standard group discussion format when necessary, and accommodating disruptive patients.
Read more36Architecture of a quality based intelligent proxy (QBIX) for MPEG-4 videos
Due to the increasing availability and use of digital video data on the Web, video caching will be an important performance factor in the future WWW. We propose an architecture of a video proxy cache that integrates modern multimedia and communication standards. Especially we describe features of the MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 multimedia standards that can be helpful for a video proxy cache. QBIX supports real-time adaptation in the compressed and in the decompressed domain. It uses adaptation to improve the cache replacement strategies in the proxy, but also to realize media gateway functionality driven by the clients' terminal capabilities.
Read moreCharacteristics of Chronic-Phase CML Patients Having Durable Cytogenetic Response to Low-Dose Imatinib
Characteristics of Chronic-Phase CML Patients Having Durable Cytogenetic Response to Low-Dose Imatinib
55MPEG-7 Color Descriptors and Their Applications
Color is one of the most important and easily identifiable features for describing visual content. The MPEG standardization group developed a number of descriptors that cover different aspects of this important visual feature. The objective of this paper is to review them and present some applications of the color descriptors by themselves and in combination with other visual descriptors.
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